U.S. President Donald Trump slammed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, his one-time political ally, deepening a rift over her opposition to the war in Iran and his attack on Pope Leo XIV.
“I’m shocked by her,” he told Italian daily Corriere della Sera in a six-minute interview that was published in Italian. “I thought she was brave, I was wrong.”
Trump’s remarks are a near total reversal on his previous stance on Meloni, whom he once described as a “beautiful young woman” who had taken Europe “by storm.”
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