‘Allies, not vassals’: How Meloni’s break with Trump grew to become a political second for Italy

It was on a authorities airplane someplace between Verona and Rome that Itay’s PM Giorgia Meloni realized that US President Donald Trump had referred to as her “unacceptable”. Her aides had flagged an interview the US president had given to Corriere della Sera revealed on April 14. She learn it. Then, based on the Italian every day’s account, the far-right PM settled on a line she had already used that afternoon: “Being allies doesn’t imply there aren’t any crimson strains, and it actually doesn’t imply being vassals or topics.”