Trump Breaks With Giorgia Meloni

New York Times: “After suffering major political setbacks because of her association with Mr. Trump, who is deeply unpopular in Italy and seen as the cause of rising gas prices, Ms. Meloni seized on an opportunity to extricate herself from a relationship that had grown domestically and internationally poisonous. After Mr. Trump launched a broadside on Monday against Pope Leo XIV, Ms. Meloni rallied to the American pontiff’s defense, saying, ‘I find President Trump’s remarks about the Holy Father unacceptable.’”

“Mr. Trump, clearly jilted, lashed out at Ms. Meloni, saying in an interview with an Italian newspaper on Tuesday that he hadn’t talked to her ‘in a long time,’ was vexed by her lack of participation in the war in Iran and was ‘shocked by her,’ adding, ‘I thought she was brave, but I was wrong.’”