Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she's 'stunned' by Trump's 'offensive' comment

'Neither I nor Italy ever beg.'

Giorgia Meloni has said she was left 'stunned' after Donald Trump mocked her over a photo taken at the G7, claiming the Italian PM had been desperate to pose with him.

Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani scrapped a June 21 trip to Washington in protest, writing on X that the 'grave and offensive words of President Trump ... offend the whole of Italy.'

Trump told Italian TV channel La7 that Meloni 'wanted a picture with me so badly' at this week's summit in France and that he agreed only because he 'felt sorry for her.'

He went further in the comments broadcast Friday morning, suggesting Meloni might be 'happy that I talked to her, I didn't have to talk to her.'

Meloni replied immediately from a European Union summit in Brussels, trashing Trump's 'made up' account and firing back: 'Neither I nor Italy ever beg'.

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