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President Trump doubled down on his attacks on Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni Saturday, claiming she \u201cwants to be friends again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G-7 meeting in France,\u201d the president insisted on Truth Social, days after the Italian leader denied Trump\u2019s claim she had \u201cbegged\u201d him for a photo.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is doing poorly in Italy with her level of popularity, possibly because she turned down the United States of America, a Country that truly loves and protects Italy, when it came to denying Iran from obtaining or developing a Nuclear Weapon (But so did NATO, for that matter!),\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

Meloni \u201cwouldn\u2019t even let us use Italy\u2019s landing strips\u201d for attacks on Iran,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, after the United States defeated Iran militarily, she wants to be friends again in order to get her \u2018numbers up.\u2019 No thanks!!!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The diplomatic rupture began at the G7 meetings in Evian-les-Bains, France, when the president told a journalist with Italy\u2019s La7 TV last week that Meloni \u201cwanted a picture with me so badly,\u201d and claimed he \u201cfelt sorry for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI do not know why the president of the United States behaves this way toward his allies \u2014 it is certainly not the first time this has happened,\u201d Melonti shot back in a video statement.<\/p>\n

Meloni said she was \u201cfrankly stunned\u201d at the president\u2019s claim, calling Trump\u2019s comments \u201cmade-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither I nor Italy ever beg,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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Italy\u2019s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani nixed a planned US visit that had been set for next week in the wake of the tiff.<\/p>\n

Trump and Meloni had warm relations when she came to power in 2022 as head of the right wing populist Brothers of Italy party.<\/p>\n

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