Trump: Meloni, my popularity depends on my ability to defend the national interest

‘The same applies to military bases in Italia’

, “President Trump, these constant, unprovoked attacks are nonsensical. As for my popularity, your friendship has certainly not helped, nor does it depend on my relationship with you. My popularity depends on my ability to defend Italia’s national interest, and that is exactly what I have always done.” This was how Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni responded in a post to US President Donald Trump, following his latest attack on Truth. “This (the defence of the national interest, ed.) is also what I have done with regard to American military bases in Italia. Their use is governed by agreements that we have always respected and which cannot be breached whilst I am Prime Minister. Italia remains a sovereign nation. In any case,” Meloni concluded, “my popularity is not his problem. I suggest he focuses on his own.”

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