Trump is now toxic across Europe’s ideological spectrum. Only 11 percent in 15 countries see the US as a steady ally.

In mid-June, Donald Trump announced, apropos of nothing beyond stroking his own ego, that he had only agreed to be photographed with the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the G7 summit because she “begged me” to do it, and that he had agreed because he “felt sorry” for her. This may have been Trump’s usual misogynistic, self-aggrandizing patter. Or it may have been an expression of…

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Meloni is not far right. Trump is far right.

    Meloni taxed banks 40% on excess profits in 2023. Meloni secured an agreement for banks to yield €5 billion toward helping vulnerable groups, defending the measure as a fair redistribution of wealth. She expanded legal foreign worker quotas. Pro-NATO, Pro-Ukraine, and she told Trump to fuck off with fighter jets using Italian airbases to bomb Iran.

    Does that sound far right?

    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      I beg your pardon?

      In 1992, Meloni joined the Youth Front, the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist political party founded in 1946 by followers of Italian fascism. She later became the national leader of Student Action, the student movement of the National Alliance (AN), a post-fascist party that became the MSI’s legal successor in 1995 and moved towards national conservatism. She was a councillor of the province of Rome from 1998 to 2002, after which she became the president of Youth Action, the youth wing of AN. In 2008 she was appointed Minister for Youth Policies in the fourth Berlusconi government, a role which she held until 2011.

      Meloni is a conservative and right-wing populist who is also a critic of globalism. She is opposed to euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and same-sex parenting, stating that nuclear families are exclusively headed by male–female pairs. Meloni supported (but never enacted) a naval blockade to halt illegal immigration, and she has been described as xenophobic and Islamophobic by some critics. A supporter of NATO, she maintains Eurosceptic views regarding the European Union (EU), views she describes as “Eurorealist”. She favoured improved relations with Russia before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which she condemned, pledging to keep sending arms to Ukraine. In 2024, Forbes ranked Meloni as the third-most-powerful woman in the world and she was listed amongst the most influential people in the world by Time magazine, while Politico ranked her as the most powerful person in Europe in 2025.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni