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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni paid an unofficial go to to Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence on Saturday, the newest international chief hosted by the US president-elect as he prepares to take workplace.
Photos despatched by the workplace of the far-right prime minister early Sunday confirmed Meloni and Trump posing on the entrance to Mar-a-Lago and chatting in a reception room, a Christmas tree seen within the background.
According to US journalists current, Trump referred to as Meloni “a improbable lady.”
“She’s actually taken Europe by storm, and everybody else, and we’re simply having dinner tonight,” Trump stated.
According to US media, the 2 dined and watched the movie “The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice,” a documentary a couple of lawyer who was charged for making an attempt to overturn the 2020 election ends in favor of Trump.
Photos of the 2 conservative leaders aspect by aspect had been on the entrance pages of all Italy’s newspapers Sunday.
Meloni is one in every of a number of international leaders, together with Canada’s Justin Trudeau and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who’ve paid visits to Trump earlier than he takes workplace.
Trump’s guarantees of introducing heavy import tariffs have led to a scramble amongst conventional financial allies, together with in Europe, to plan for doable damaging results on commerce.
Meanwhile, one in every of Trump’s high advisors, billionaire Elon Musk, has taken to social and conventional media to lambast the ruling governments in Germany and the United Kingdom.
His feedback have already ruffled feathers in Europe. The identical day that Meloni was visiting Trump, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz denounced Musk’s “erratic” feedback and his open assist for the extreme-right AfD occasion.
The go to by Meloni, who heads the far-right Brothers of Italy occasion, comes forward of a four-day go to to Rome by US President Joe Biden, the place he’s anticipated to satisfy with Meloni and, individually, Pope Francis.
Also in attendance had been Trump’s incoming nationwide safety advisor Mike Waltz and Senator Marco Rubio, tapped for secretary of state, in response to US information stories from the occasion.
Both Trump’s and Meloni’s places of work didn’t reply to requests for remark in regards to the go to.
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