With her popularity flagging and a general election looming, the Italian PM sees a strategic advantage in the rupture If Giorgia Meloni thought that she could put her April spat with Donald Trump over the pope’s criticism of the US war on Iran behind her, she had not banked on the US president’s ...
Source: [Guardian US](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/01/why-meloni-has-hit-back-hard-against-trump-and-his-made-up-photo-claim)