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The prime minister, once regarded as one of Trump’s closest political allies in Europe, said she was “stunned” by his remarks.
June 19, 2026, 7:20 AM MST / Updated June 19, 2026, 10:32 AM MST
By Claudio Lavanga and Elmira Aliieva
ROME — This time, Giorgia Meloni was quick to fire back: “I and Italy never beg.”
Clearly irked at President Donald Trump’s suggestion that she had had “begged” him for a photo at the Group of Seven summit earlier this week, the Italian prime minister said this was “totally fabricated.”
The dispute erupted after Trump told Italian broadcaster La7 that Meloni had pleaded with him for a photo at the meeting of leading industrialized nations in the French resort of Evian-les-Bains earlier this week.
“She begged me to take a photo with her. She wanted a photo with me so badly — I could have skipped it, but I felt sorry for her,” Trump said in the brief interview, which was posted by the channel to its website Friday.
In her response, the Italian leader said she was “stunned” by Trump’s comments, before taking aim at Trump’s broader approach to international relations, suggesting he treats longtime Western allies with less respect than he shows their adversaries.
“I don’t know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies,” Meloni said. “It’s not, after all, the first time this has happened.”
An RCMP officer based in Quebec has been charged with uttering threats online toward U.S. President Donald Trump while he was deployed to ov
An RCMP officer based in Quebec has been charged with uttering threats online toward U.S. President Donald Trump while he was deployed to oversee security operations at the G7 summit last year in Alberta. According to the RCMP, the officer, 34-year-old Evenson Dumerlus of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., allegedly posted a video on his Snapchat account “in which he made threatening comments” toward the president. The RCMP did not divulge the nature of the alleged threat due to the ongoing investigation. A police spokesperson, Const. Marie-Pier Guertin, told CTV News that the alleged offence happened on June 3, 2025. At the time, Dumerlus was posted to Kananaskis, Alta., to oversee site security for the G7 summit.
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