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Italian media has a brutal new insult for Trump
Trump Turns Diplomacy Into Humiliation TheaterHumiliation as DiplomacyThe immediate story is simple enough: Donald Trump claimed Giorgia Meloni “begged” for a photo at the G7 in Évian-les-Bains, and Italy answered with visible offense. Antonio Tajani canceled a planned U.S. visit. Zerlina Maxwell then said Italian media, including a right-wing newspaper, were now calling Trump coglione.That is the surface. The deeper story is that a sitting U.S. president used a public lie-like boast to rank a foreign prime minister beneath him, then acted surprised when a government with its own interests…
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