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Posted on 04/14/2026 2:27:26 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump flipped on his once close ally, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, on Tuesday in a phone interview with an Italian daily newspaper. Trump responded to Meloni’s recent criticism of his attack on Pope Leo XIV by accusing Meloni of being a changed person.
On Monday, Meloni called Trump’s multiple attacks on the Pope “unacceptable.”
“I find President Trump’s words toward the Holy Father unacceptable,” Meloni said in a statement. “The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church, and it is right and normal that he calls for peace and condemns every form of war.”
Meloni was responding to Trump’s broadside against the Pope, calling “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy.” The Pope has been a fierce critic of the war in Iran has used recent public appearances to call for peace.
“And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History,” Trump also said of the Pope.
Following Meloni’s defense of the Pope, Trump turned his ire on her. Trump called his former ally “unacceptable,” repeating her words, and fumed that she is “no longer the same person.”
Trump made the comments to the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, adding he was “shocked by her. I thought she was brave, but I was wrong.”
“It’s her who’s unacceptable, because she doesn’t care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if it had the chance,” Trump added, repeating some of his attack on the Pope as well.
Meloni, a right-leaning populist in her own right, had begun distancing herself from Trump in recent weeks amid political setbacks domestically, which were linked in part to Trump’s rock-bottom approval in Italy.
“When we don’t agree, we must say it. And this time, we do not agree,” Meloni said earlier in the month, when pressed on the Iran war. Meloni had previously positioned herself as a link between Trump and the rest of the EU, especially when it came to combating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and promoting a harder-line immigration policy.
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She flipped on him first…
Meloni balogna
If you can point out the advantage to be gained in him responding to her, please share.
To me it seems like a pointless exercise in dragging out a controversy that doesn’t benefit the President or the country in any way.
Bologna, and Torino, and Asti, and Apulia, ecc., ecc.
I don’t think he has to respond at all.
I merely point out she decided she didn’t support Trump on this and has even chided the effort.
I love Donald Trump but he needs to learn how to keep his mouth closed sometimes. He does not need to comment on every single F-ing thing. He thinks Meloni screwed him over? So what? He has more important things to focus on like the war and making sure Republicans don’t get destroyed in the midterms. Stop talking about the Pope. Stop talking about Meloni. Stop talking about Keir Starmer. Stop talking about Tiger Woods. Susie Wiles needs to get his Truth Social feed back under control.
I think he wants a democratic senate and house. I think he’d lose likes the right. They’ll challenge him which on policy he likes. He doesn’t care about impeachment as it means nothing. I really think he wants a challenge his last two years.
Impeachment helped him. He does better when the Democrats attack him. It’s why he got his second term.
To be fair….what is she supposed to say? Prime Minister of Italy will lose if she picks a fight with the Vatican.
Dope Leo STILL hasn’t condemned Iran’s slaughter of 35K+ protesters. Until that happens, Meloni can STFU.
It's better for Vance (or Rubio) in 2028 if the Dems end up taking Congress in 2026. At this point, they're Communists but we need to be reminded of that fact.
Seditious conspirator Barrio Obama’s David Axelrod advise you to spout that?
She disagreed with him on this one issue. The idea that you're either 100% with me or you are my enemy is the kind of logic that eventually results on everyone being against you.
“She flipped on him first”
exactly, and hardly an “ally” anyway given their deliberate obstruction of the USA military trying to stave off a nuclear WWIII guaranteed as soon as Iran possesses nuclear weapons, and their chickenshit refusal to help even police the Strait until it was safe ... F ‘em and F all of NATO ... let ‘em deal with the Russkies on their own ...
The prime minister of italy is a distant secon in the country to the most powerful and influential and internationally know person in the country. Unique circumstance in the world. She has to defend the poop. Attacking her for doing so only helps her in italy. It would be similar but still pale in comparison to the british prime minister defending the king. Or the saudi crown prince defnding mecca. Trump, my favorite president ever, needs to stfu and get back to action. Unless he owes italian pm some huge favor and he is burning international political capital, midterm donor flow, an JDVs election chances to deliver that favor (very unlikely)
And the two foreign heads of state in Italy, and anywhere else, can go F themselves if they have a problem with the President and Commander in Chief of the Sovereign United States.
We don’t have any allies in Western Europe.
Not among Western Europe’s Deep States...
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