The sensation seems mutual — Meloni reposted a video of Trump’s feedback on Thursday night, thanking the president-elect for his “variety phrases.”
The interplay is simply the most recent spherical of mutual back-slapping between the incoming Trump administration and Meloni, whom POLITICO named essentially the most highly effective particular person in Europe this week partly as a consequence of her place as a bridge between the EU and Trump’s White Home.
Meloni was one of many first European leaders to congratulate Trump on his election win in November, and Trump reportedly referred to as Meloni a “actual stay wire” after spending “rather a lot” of time along with her in Paris final weekend on the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
A Trump-Meloni friendship comes as no shock — the 2 right-wingers have a mutual buddy: billionaire entrepreneur and key Trump ally Elon Musk. The X proprietor just lately showered Meloni with reward at an awards ceremony in September. His adulation — which included repeatedly calling Meloni “lovely” — even sparked rumors of a romance between the 2, which Musk has denied.
However not everybody within the Trump orbit is as effusive about Meloni. Former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon just lately claimed Meloni’s efforts to ingratiate herself with centrists in Brussels had scuttled her shot at being related with the incoming administration.
