A growing number of foreign leaders have had it with Trump
(CNN) Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni could have denied Trump’s claim that she begged him to take a photo together, and left it at that.
Instead, she went much further. She posted a video on X Friday that made a show of standing up to Trump and linked the episode to his ill treatment of allies.
“I can only say that it’s a shame he doesn’t have the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaderships with which he instead appears much more accommodating,” Meloni said. It was a broadside — and not just from any leader. This is a right-wing leader that some have compared to Trump.
But in finding some backbone vis-à-vis Trump, Meloni has plenty of company these days. While Trump has long reveled in throwing his weight around on the world stage and forcing leaders to cater to him, his growing provocations and declining political stock appear to have steeled some of those leaders’ spines to speak out against him.
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