President Donald Trump sat for a second time in front of reporters with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, where the two leaders committed to working together amid trade wars and finding common ground on defying the “woke” agenda of radical leftists.
“It’s an honor to have the Prime Minister of Italy with us,” Trump said. “…She has taken Europe by storm.”
Meloni noted that April 17 is the anniversary of the 1492 agreement Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made with Spain that enabled him to sail westward.
“We both share another fight, which is the fight against woke and DEI ideology that would like to erase our history,” Meloni said, highlighting her country’s historic part in America’s origin story.
Meloni elevated the “many bilateral topics” discussed during Thursday’s meeting, which focused on the economy, energy, trade, and even the development of nuclear facilities, she said.
“Italian enterprises will invest as they’ve been doing for many years now,” she said.
Meloni also announced that President Trump had accepted an invitation to visit Rome on an official state trip. “For Europe, the goal, to me, is to make the West great again,” she said. “And I think we can do it together.”
Trump agreed, “We can.”
Finally, Meloni applauded the Trump administration’s efforts to help broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.
“We support your efforts,” she said.
President Trump pointed out that around “2,500” soldiers were being killed weekly in the war in Eastern Europe. “If we can save those lives, it will be a very good thing…we’re getting very close,” he stated.
One reporter asked the president if he would respond to Russian President Vladmir Putin with sanctions or other penalties if he refused to ink a ceasefire. “We’ll see what that will be,” Trump said. “We’re going to be hearing from them this week…we want it to stop, we want the death and the killing to stop.”
Trump Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has thus far held at least three confirmed meetings with Putin, and noted this week that negotiations continued to be “emerging,” via RSBN.
Finally, President Trump never backed down on his position of holding foreign countries accountable on trade, even America’s allies.
“If they don’t want to make a deal, we’ll make the deal for them,” he remarked. “…We want to listen to everybody…we’re listening and we’re going to be very fair [to] people…We’re the one that really sets the deal and that’s what we’ll be doing.”
