'Unacceptable': Italian PM slams Trump's Pope comment

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4. You might not like Meloni, but she is no dummy

Little reported in the US was that Meloni and the Italian far right suffered their own election a few weeks ago: they were trying to politicize the judiciary in a much pushed referendum. It failed miserably, when it was supposed to be close.

Meloni was Orban's greatest friend in Europe. She embraced him completely.

She knows that even she, looking like she would be a 15 year premier just a year ago, is now on thin ice, especially as the Italian rage at the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon promises to turn an already vibrant movement among the youth into a wide social movement. How many Americans know that Italian military serve as peacekeepers in southern Lebanon for years, or that they are fired on regularly by the IDF?

Meloni knows now for a stone fact that Trump will drag her down even in Italy. She's going to cut him loose.