# The Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni accused her one-time close ally US president Donald Trump of fabricating a story about her on Friday, after he told an Italian TV channel she had “begged” him to take a photo with her at a G7 summit. Meloni chided him for acting with far greater deference to the enemies of the West than he does towards old, established allies. The latest exchange marks a sharp deterioration in ties, coming after signs that the two leaders had steadied a previously strained relationship over the war on Iran.
Italy’s premier says Trump ‘totally invented’ a story that she begged him for photo