Trump Slams Meloni, Deepening Fallout From His Pope Attack

President Donald Trump slammed Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, his one-time political ally, deepening a rift over her opposition to the war in Iran and his attack on Pope Leo XIV.

“I’m shocked by her,” he told Italian daily Corriere della Sera in a six-minute interview that was published in Italian. “I thought she was brave, I was wrong.”