Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni hit back at what she called "senseless" attacks by US leader Donald Trump over his claim she insisted on having a photo with him at a recent G7 summit. "These constant, unprovoked attacks are senseless,” she said on her Instagram page in response to Trump's allegation made on his Truth Social platform. "Being your friend certainly has not helped" her popularity, she said, adding: "I suggest you focus on yours.” The dustup led Italy’s foreign minister to cancel a planned trip to the United States as Meloni’s government lined up in her defense. “Italian Prime Minister Gigiorgia Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G-7 meeting in France,” Trump wrote on his social media platform while spending the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat. He misspelled her first name in the initial post, which he later corrected. He continued: “She 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!).”
