Continued feud between Trump and Meloni

TT

Updated 18.27 | Published 15.31

 

US President Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni talk at a luncheon at the G7 summit on June 16. Photo: Christian Hartmann/AP/TT

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is pushing back against Donald Trump's latest attack on her. She calls the US president's claims "senseless".

"These constant, unprovoked attacks are senseless" and being Trump's friend has "hardly helped" her in the polls, Meloni writes in a post on Instagram.

The counterattack comes after Donald Trump repeated a claim on Saturday afternoon that the Italian leader begged and asked to be photographed with him at the G7 summit in France earlier this week.

In the post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that Meloni “couldn’t even let us use some of Italy’s runways” in response to the US strike on Iran.

Italy’s foreign minister canceled a planned visit to the US over the dispute.