With one familiar line, Giorgia Meloni dropped a bold new populist slogan—and the elites won’t like it one bit.
April 17, 2025
On Thursday, before stepping into the Oval Office, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with President Trump and his cabinet to talk trade. The press showed up eager to ignite a headline, hoping for signs of a looming tariff war between the U.S. and the EU.
But Meloni didn’t take the bait.
Instead of grandstanding, she delivered a steady, confident show of diplomacy—and extended a personal invitation to President Trump.
When a reporter tried to stir the pot, asking, “The retaliatory tariffs that the European Commission passed and then suspended, are they still on the table if you cannot make a deal with President Trump?”—Meloni didn’t blink.
“I am sure we can make a deal,” she said.
She made it clear she wasn’t there on behalf of Brussels. Her focus was on building trust. “I’m here to help on that. I cannot, look, deal in the name of the European Union,” she explained.
“My goal would be to invite President Trump to pay a visit to Italy and understand if there’s a possibility when he comes to organize also such a meeting with Europe.”
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