The Italian PM is NOT Backing Down From Trump: “Being Your Friend Certainly Has Not Helped”
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🗓️ 22 June 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Perhaps we should’ve seen this one coming. After Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called President Trump a liar for saying she begged to have a photo with him, Trump doubled down and fired back over the weekend. Trump suggested Meloni was trying to be friends with him to get her “numbers up.” Meloni responded on social media with a message for Trump, calling his constant, unprovoked attacks, senseless. Meloni is on a long and growing list of European and world leaders who have found themselves in a public war of words with our President.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.2 | It is Monday, June 22nd, and hey, why don't you mind your own damn business? |
| 0:14.4 | So says the prime minister of Italy to President Donald J. Trump in an escalating war of words. And with that, welcome to this |
| 0:24.3 | episode of Amy and T.J. This is a U.S. ally that there is right now, Robes. We call it a war of words, |
| 0:30.9 | but it is having some diplomatic implications. But we thought there was going to be a one and done, |
| 0:35.6 | but it's still going. Yeah, because we were |
| 0:38.7 | waiting for President Trump to respond to the Italian Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney, who |
| 0:45.2 | essentially called him a liar. We knew it was coming. We didn't know when. We didn't know how |
| 0:50.0 | strong he would hit back. And yep, he delivered over the weekend right on time he didn't make |
| 0:58.0 | us wait at all we knew this was coming the back and forth started this is someone robs that |
| 1:03.4 | yes italy of course you as ally but this leader of italy georgia maloney is someone who was |
| 1:10.0 | seen as maybe his best friend in Europe. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah, she's a right winger as well. She came to his inauguration, the only European leader to come to his |
| 1:21.2 | inauguration in 2025. So yes, he has been losing at least the respect or perhaps the public regard of many European |
| 1:31.2 | leaders and she was the one that he had at least some sort of seeming friendship with. |
| 1:37.8 | That appears to be no longer. |
| 1:41.3 | The Trump whisperer, they even called her for her ability to navigate, to stay |
| 1:47.0 | close to him, to deal with her own politics and her own country. Wow. Okay, so this is all |
| 1:52.4 | falling apart, Robs, over an allegation about a damn photo. And he was the one initially last |
| 2:00.0 | week after the G7 doing an interview said that she |
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