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.
I am orthodox.
And you need to watch what you say.
Has Alexander Soros gotten to Giorgia Meloni?
Yeah that advice should get shoved back into your triggered face, but I hope you keep spewing stuff so people can see there’s Swamp scum that thinks the Vatican has a say in American domestic and foreign policy...
Like you do
Bad news: those people can’t vote for him anymore.
I doubt insulting the Italian premier is going to register much with Joe Maga in Des Moines who’s spending $100 to fill up his F-150.
If I were President Trump, I’d respond: “No, YOU STFU.”
I’m Joe MAGA and this absolutely resonates with me!
Besides, how would you know how Joe MAGA would respond to this?
You’ve always been a NeverTrumper Troll!
All one has to do to confirm this is look at your posting history!
Yup. You’re Joe Maga who is more concerned with President Trump insulting the Pope and the Italian premier than with your household’s financial security.
Because what Carville MEANT to say was: “It’s the Pope and the Italian premier, stupid.”
When the Pope sounds like run of the mill Swamp scum Democrats, he’s a foreign head of state that deserves the scorn and being frozen as a target under Alinsky’s rules for radicals, like the likes of San Fran Nan and Sniffing Joe , etc, gets.
Swamp Scum and Deep State has an HQ at the Vatican
What a surprise
/s
After this past two weeks, I’m ready to move on from Trump. Here’s hoping that he doesn’t destroy all of his allies on his way to retirement.
I agree with you about Bush. Bush never fought back. He thought he was taking the high road and the Dems just beat on him mercilessly. It didn’t help him. So when Trump came on the scene and punched back, it was a breath of fresh air and I loved it. But he doesn’t need to punch back at every single comment and every person. It begins to look like he is distracted and it sometimes looks petty. Don’t get me wrong - I voted for him three times. I’d vote for him again. But these pissing contests are a distraction and, in my opinion, undermine his goals.
Oh yes. Another tough little boy behind his computer.
“$100 to fill up his F-150”
Crude oil prices averaged about $100/barrel from early 2011 to the middle of 2014.
graph (not directly shown because of Bloomberg source):
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/A025/production/_123579904_global_oil_prices_0822-nc.png.webp
“Five ways the Ukraine war could push up prices [and did]
7 March 2022”
“Oil prices at highest since 2008”
“pension savings, like any investments, are usually a long-term bet and advisers say it’s important not to panic about short-term movements up or down.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60509453
Nope,
Just someone who understands how triggered some folks get when Trump picks a target, freezes it and polarizes it.
All with the help of a little trip of Seditious conspirator Barrio Obama’s David Axelrod to the foreign head of state, his Popeness.
The Pope just wasn’t going to be able to stfu.
And they can’t deplatform the President and Commander in Chief these days, so..
Enjoy the rest of 45-47!
Kanada is The Crown, and The Crown has not been our friend for two centuries. The Crown isn't even our friend today. The king is making deals with Zelensky despite the U.S. funding Ukraine. We spend the money and The Crown gets the mineral rights.
Kanada was such a friend that they slapped onerous tariffs on us for decades. They aided illegal alien invaders destined for the U.S. right to the U.S. border. Trump called them out and now the Kanadian economy is tanking.
You can’t be taken serious with this post. Trump LITERALLY does everything you are accusing Meloni of doing.
We're $140 Trillion in debt. We've been sending borrowed money to every country on the planet. Now we're seeing that they never were allies. They were just takers.
They absolutely have a right to speak out against foreign policy that negatively affects their country.
I'm dead serious. You keep believing the Propaganda Media. Meanwhile, the younger male demographic has gone more conservative and more for Trump than before.
They have a bleak future because of what the Left has done to this country, and are well aware that he's the only one who gives enough of a damn about them to do something.
The Vatican and Iran are chums?
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