REDSTATE | Published January 5, 2025
World leaders seem to be flocking in ever-greater numbers to Mar-a-Lago, otherwise known in some circles as the South White House, to visit the President-elect (Acting President?) Donald Trump. We can scarcely blame them; they are going to be dealing with Trump 2, the Return of Trump for the next four years, and they all know it.
And to be honest, some of them have to be more than a little relieved; at least the new American president they will be dealing with will be fully conscious and capable, as opposed to drooling into a pudding cup.
The latest leader to head for Mar-a-Lago is the effervescent, yet forceful Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The prime minister seems more capable and confident than the general run of leaders most of Europe has produced lately (not that this is setting the bar very high), and she seems to be on good terms with Donald Trump, at least based on photographic evidence.
While it is yet unknown what the Italian PM and the president-elect discussed on Saturday, we can be sure that Ms. Meloni probably found Donald Trump less bothersome to deal with than his predecessor. PM Meloni’s eye-rolls are legendary; check out this one, when she was awaiting a tardy Joe Biden’s arrival at a NATO summit:
And again, when meeting French President Emmanuel Macron; this one is particularly fun to watch because the eye-roll is minimized, but she combines it with that half-smile and slightly inclined head:
She’s great. What’s really amazing is how few of her fellow European leaders seem to be able to digest these visual cues she is so liberally dispensing.
But while the president-elect seems to be on good terms with Ms. Meloni, Trump’s new advisor and confidante Elon Musk seems to be striking a much more personal connection with the Italian prime minister. In fact, they seem to be downright… chummy. People on X had fun speculating that Musk might be a surprise guest at Mar-a-Lago, by sharing older photos with him and Meloni :
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RELATED: Trump, Italian PM Meloni Dine and Talk Trade at Mar-a-Lago
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni flew to Florida on Saturday and met with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.
Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, speaks at the Atreju convention in Rome, Italy, on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024. The yearly political festival is organized by Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing party Brothers of Italy. Photo by Alessia Pierdomenico /Bloomberg
FINANCIAL POST | Published January 5, 2025
(Bloomberg) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni flew to Florida on Saturday and met with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.
Meloni’s surprise visit came days before she’s scheduled to receive President Joe Biden, who’ll travel to Rome and the Vatican from Jan. 9 in what will likely be his final presidential mission overseas.
Trump and Meloni spoke about a range of matters, according to a person familiar with the matter, including tariffs that the incoming president has threatened against various trading partners, and the arrest in Iran of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala, currently being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
Sala’s arrest in December, authorities on both sides have signalled, came days after Italian law enforcement, at the request of the US, apprehended a Swiss-Iranian national at Milan’s Malpensa airport.
That individual, Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, has been charged by the US on lethal drone warfare allegations and remains in Italian custody.
Trump walked in to a movie screening at his resort with Meloni on Saturday night and pointed her out to a crowd.
“This is very exciting, I’m here with a fantastic woman, the prime minister of Italy,” Trump said. “She’s really taken Europe by storm, and everyone else, and we’re just having dinner tonight.”
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SOURCE: www.financialpost.com
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