Trump the genius at diplomacy:
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused her one-time close ally Donald Trump of fabricating a story about her on Friday, after the U.S. President told an Italian TV channel that she had “begged” him to take a photo with her at a G7 summit.
Meloni said she was “astonished” by his comments, which were “completely made up”. She also chided him for acting with far greater deference to the enemies of the West than he does towards old, established allies.
She’s astonished that he’s a ridiculous fool who tells ridiculous stories that flatter him at the expense of everyone else? Does she know him at all?
Underscoring how much Trump’s comments have angered Meloni’s government, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced he was cancelling a planned visit to the U.S. next week.
No matter. Trump will explain that it’s because she’s so in love with him that she has to avoid him for the sake of the children. [Children not specified.]
Video from the event in France showed Meloni and Trump deep in conversation, sitting side-by-side on a small sofa, but the U.S. leader suggested he had merely indulged her by chatting with her.
“She’s probably happy I talked to her. I didn’t have to talk to her,” Trump was quoted as saying by La7 TV channel in a brief interview, after he himself asked the journalist about Italy’s prime minister.
“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,” Trump said, according to La7’s translation.
Well, see, it’s like this. There was that time back in high school when the prettiest girl in the whole school had a huge crush on him but he just wasn’t into her. It happens to him every year or so. No make that every month. It just never stops.
One of Meloni’s closest political allies, who usually shuns the media spotlight, struck out at Trump using a tone that would have been unthinkable beforehand.
“It is unclear whether out of intent or ineptitude (Trump) is wrecking the historic relations between the United States and Europe,” Giovanbattista Fazzolari, undersecretary to the prime minister’s office, said in a statement.
Guys guys guys don’t take it so seriously. Trump was just messing. He was just cutting other people down to enhance his own shimmering glory. It’s what he does. The fact that it’s both ludicrous and disgusting is irrelevant. He’s the boss.
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