Trump told Italian broadcaster La7 about his conversation with Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni: "She’s probably happy I talked to her. I didn’t have to talk to her. She begged me to take a picture with her. She wanted a picture with me so badly. I wouldn’t have taken it, but I felt sorry for her.”
Responding in a video post on Instagram with the caption “Italy and I never beg," Meloni said “some things deserve an immediate response.” “Donald Trump’s declarations are totally invented,” she added. “Frankly, I am stunned. I don’t know why the US president behaves this way towards his allies. It’s not the first time it’s happened, I can only say it’s unfortunate he doesn’t show the same determination towards the west’s enemies.”
This overweight, barely ambulatory 80-year-old mass grave of overcooked hamburgers, mushy-brained, hopelessly confused, infinitely vulgar and crudely misogynistic, seething with malevolence and bitterness and unfocussed anger at the vast waste of his life, dictator-lover despised and laughed at by the majority of Americans and, even more intensely so, most of the rest of the world, still thinks he is some sort of eternally desirable hot commodity, Vampire Lestat from Queens. Such is the bottomless depth of his darkly suffering id, his pathologically narcissistic need for being adored, wanted, feared.... like Stalin, like Mao. Pathetic.