Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has boasted that she had a “beautiful” meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump.
Writing on social media a day after the January 4 get together, the Fratelli D’Italia leader thanked Trump for inviting her to his Mar a Lago estate in Florida.
“Beautiful evening with [Trump] whom I thank for the welcome,” she wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Trump favourite Elon Musk.
Bella serata con @realDonaldTrump che ringrazio per l’accoglienza.
Pronti a lavorare insieme ???? pic.twitter.com/ohNSSq1vLg— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) January 5, 2025
“We are ready to work together,” she said.
According to The New York Times on January 5, the Trump-Meloni meeting consisted of dinner and a screening of the documentary The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice.
Trump was reported to have been complimentary of Meloni during the meeting, calling her “a fantastic woman”, adding: “She’s really taken Europe by storm, and everyone else.”
There was said to have been no set agenda for the bilateral meeting. It is not publicly known what was discussed.
Meloni is one of a number of right-wing politicians in Europe said to have good relations with the incoming Trump administration.
Another key figure likely to benefit from the Republican leader’s time in the White House is Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
His Fidesz party has maintained close relations with Trump’s party, alongside its closely linked organisations such as the American Conservative Union. That group is responsible for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) annual political meetings attended by Conservative activists and officials from across the US.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has also appeared to build strong relations with much of the Republican Party and its key allies. Both Musk and Vice-President-elect JD Vance have publicly endorsed the group in recent days.
Musk’s interventions have been particularly polarising, with the billionaire characterising the AfD as being the only party “that can save Germany”.
The tech mogul is set to take part in a podcast with AfD co-leader Alice Weidel in the next few days.
INTERVIEW: ‘Elon Musk should be awarded the Nobel peace Prize’ In interview: Slovenian MEP @BrankoGrimsX1 https://t.co/gFhwIrUNdJ pic.twitter.com/HcbbgGA1Eb
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