Donald Trump has few friends among European leaders. Emmanuel Macron was considered a Trump whisperer during the first term but he’s been obliged to be confrontational as the Insult Comedian has repeatedly trashed the EU and NATO. Who would have thought that a French president would be more pro-NATO than their American counterpart? De Gaulle weeps.
Trump’s little Hungarian friend Viktor Orban lost his reelection bid, which left the Kaiser of Chaos with one friend and ally among European leaders, Italy’s neo-something or other Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. She was the only European leader to attend his second inaugural and she even stood by her American man during a flap over ICE at the Olympics.
Holy Italian ice, Batman.
The Insult Comedian involved Meloni in one of his sir story type lies during the G7 summit:
Trump gave a phone interview with Italy’s La7 TV channel in which he alleged: “She begged me to take a photo with her; I felt sorry for her.”
“She’s probably happy I spoke to her,” he said. La7 did not produce Trump’s original words in English, but voiced them over in Italian.
Responding to the claim, Meloni in an Instagram video said she was “frankly stunned”.
“I don’t know why the US president behaves this way towards allies,” she said, adding it was not the first time it had happened.
And it won’t be the last. Trump treats foreign leaders with disdain and contempt as if they were Republican politicians; unless they fluff and flatter him. He seems to think he’s wildly popular in Europe when he’s even more unpopular abroad than at home.
There’s more from the Italian leader:
“I can only say it is regrettable he does not show the same determination towards the enemies of the West and towards the enemies of the US – [enemies] whose leaders he instead appears to be far more accommodating with.”
“But there is one thing he needs to remember: neither I nor Italy ever beg.”
Alienating people is one of Trump’s super powers. It’s what happens when you confuse assholery with strength.
Meloni has crossed Trump on the Iran War and his idiotic online fight with Pope Bob who’s more popular than either of them. President Pennywise never forgives or forgets even the slightest slight, so Meloni is now on his shit list. You say shit list; I say honor roll. Let’s call the whole thing off.
Meloni isn’t the only right-wing populist European leader running away from the MAGA madman’s toxic embrace. Both Nigel Farage and Marine LePen used to be bosom buddies with Trump but they now keep a wary distance from the man who has revived the term Ugly American or as they say in Milano and Roma: Il brutto Americano.
The Insult Comedian’s sexism is a major factor in his feud with Giorgia Meloni. He thinks women, especially attractive women like Meloni, should know their place and defer to him. The MAGA misogyny, it burns.
The last thing I ever expected was to defend someone who thinks Benito Mussolini and Silvio Berlusconi are swell guys but that’s what MAGA madness has wrought. Meloni is wrong about everything except gelato and Donald Trump’s manners. She should have Italian iced him over like she did with Macron:
The Insult Comedian turns everything to shit. He can’t even get along with someone who wanted to be his political BFF. Perhaps he should have danced the Mambo Italiano or shared some nice Italian ice with Meloni instead of insulting her.
The last word goes to Rosemary Clooney: