With her popularity flagging and a general election looming, the Italian PM sees a strategic advantage in the rupture<\/p>\n
If Giorgia Meloni thought that she could put her April spat<\/a> with Donald Trump over the pope\u2019s criticism of the US war on Iran behind her, she had not banked on the US president\u2019s capacity to bear a grudge.<\/p>\n Trump reignited tensions by telling an Italian TV journalist that the Italian PM had \u201cbegged\u201d him for a picture at the recent G7 meeting in France. The Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds suggested that Trump\u2019s feathers had been ruffled<\/a> by a video at the same meeting, showing Meloni appearing to scold him. In any case he doubled down on his tale in a Truth Social post<\/a>, adding that Meloni wanted the photo to boost her flagging approval ratings, which he blamed on her failure to support the US in the Iran war.<\/p>\n Riccardo Alcaro is head of research at IAI, Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With her popularity flagging and a general election looming, the Italian PM sees a strategic advantage in the rupture If Giorgia Meloni thought that she could put her April spat with Donald Trump over the pope\u2019s criticism of the US war on Iran behind her, she had not banked on the US president\u2019s capacity to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}