Trump se dit déçu par «l'inacceptable» Meloni
The American president criticized the Italian prime minister for her alleged "lack of courage".
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday sharply criticized Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for refusing to involve her country in the war in Iran, saying he was "shocked" and disappointed by her lack of "courage".
“Do they (the Italians) appreciate the fact that your prime minister isn’t helping us get this oil? Do they like it? I can’t imagine it. I’m shocked. I thought she had courage, but I was wrong,” Donald Trump said in an interview with the Italian daily “Corriere della Sera.”
Giorgia Meloni, elected in October 2022 to head an ultraconservative coalition government, is one of Trump's closest allies on the Old Continent, often striving to play a mediating role between the divergent positions of the United States and Europe.
Criticism of the Pope
The US president stated that she did not want Italy to be involved in the Middle East war, which began with Israeli-American attacks against Iran, even though the country imports a large part of its oil from that region.
The interview in "Corriere della Sera" was published less than 24 hours after Ms. Meloni described as "unacceptable" the criticisms of the US president of Pope Leo XIV, following the pontiff's repeated calls to end the war in the Middle East.
Donald Trump told the Italian daily that she was the one who was "unacceptable", claiming that she didn't care that Iran had a nuclear weapon.
"There is only one principle that guides the policy and each of President Meloni's decisions: the best interests of Italy, always and in all circumstances," reacted her far-right party Fratelli d'Italia (FDI) on X.
The article in "Corriere della Sera" was published in Italian, but AFP obtained the original quote in English.
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