Posted on 06/07/2018 5:37:26 AM PDT by Voluntaryist
ROME—“Immigrants are criminals!”—“Our interests first”—“What’s wrong with being friends with Russia?”
If the rhetoric coming out of Italy’s newly minted government sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Just a day after being sworn in as Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister on Saturday, the far-right League party’s Matteo Salvini vowed to lock up migrants rescued at sea in closed detention centers, calling them “criminals” and “felons” and telling them their “free ride is over.” If it sounds an awful lot like what U.S. President Donald Trump says about Mexicans crossing into the United States, it could be because Salvini is a YUGE fan of the man who vows to make America great again.
Salvini was inspired when he visited Trump in Philadelphia in 2016 when the then-candidate reportedly said he “hopes this man is leader of Italy someday.” At the time, it seemed preposterous and Trump initially backpedaled from the statement after being told of Salvini’s far-right leanings. On Wednesday, Salvini’s populist coalition, forged with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, passed a confidence vote with a comfortable majority, meaning their mandate could last for the five-year term if they can avoid infighting.
The similarities between Salvini and Trump don’t stop with an anti-immigration stance. While Salvini was warning migrants in Sicily and tweeting to Italian-born Ghanaian footballer Mario Balotelli to “just follow the ball” and stop complaining about citizenship birth rights, Hungarian financier George Soros told a group of economists at the Festival of the Economy in northern Italy that he was “very worried” that Russia “influenced Italian elections.”
How queer, there is $oros again.
Do I really want to read this gloBULList clap trap?
MIGA Making Italy Great Again :-)
Accusing Italy’s elections of being influenced by - wait for it - Russia!!
Is that the only trick they have?
You always go full Trump.
They said the sane thing about BRexit
Tried and true song which has captivated American MSM for the past 18 months.
Every time there is a wiff of BS in the air you just know Soros can't be far away!!
Italy has huge potential, just need a great leader who can reshape the government. They have their deep state to.
The Soros paid media always leaves out the key word illegal.
Apparently.
HOORAY Italy!
MIGA
Leave it to the Italians to set the tone for Europe. Italians don’t take any sheet, which is why they can relate to DJT as well as they do.
If Europe survives (culturally) it will largely be because of Italy and to a lesser extent Spain (Catalonia).
Still, I miss my man Silvio Berulsconi - he long ago put cannons on the beaches to fire at the illegals coming across the Mediterranean, and at the ripe age of 70 still great with the ladies.
Not surprised Mr. Salvini got his inspiration from our own President Trump. ‘The Donald’ has a way of igniting those animal spirits in men.
Half of my family is in Italy, so I hope this trend for that country continues.
Ooooooh “far-right” so spooky!
Your continent is burning morons!
If they want to distinguish themselves, they have to go full Trump. The globalist side has a monopoly on the opposite direction. Under Obama and Merkel, the United States and the EU both learned why you never want to go full retard.
Forza Italia!
Tagline Orwell 1984
Italy has the highest average IQ in the world, outside of a few Asian countries. Which means Italy probably has the most creativity and common sense in the world as well.
Might have to make a return trip to the Amalfi Coast.
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