00:00And first up we got across to breaking news coming in.
00:02It is Trump versus Melanie and an all-out war that has panned out.
00:07After Donald Trump claimed that Melanie begged him for a picture,
00:11Italian Prime Minister Melanie has hit back at US President.
00:14She said,
00:15Donald Trump's statements are completely made up.
00:17I'm frankly appalled.
00:19I don't know why the President of the United States behaves this way with his own allies.
00:24After all, it's not the first time that this has happened.
00:27This in an interview on the Italian talk show,
00:31Donald Trump claimed that Prime Minister Giorgia Melanie begged me to have a picture taken with her.
00:38I felt sorry for her on court.
00:40Trump also added that she's probably glad I spoke to her.
00:44I wasn't obliged to speak to her.
00:47Let's listen in.
00:50Dunque, certe cose meritano una risposta immediata.
00:53Le dichiarazioni di Donald Trump sono dichiarazioni totalmente inventate.
00:57Sono francamente allibita.
00:59Non so perché il Presidente degli Stati Uniti si comporti così con i propri alleati.
01:04Non è del resto la prima volta che accade.
01:06Posso solo dire che dispiace che non abbia la stessa determinazione con i nemici dell'Occidente,
01:11con i nemici degli Stati Uniti, con leadership,
01:13con le quali invece si dimostra molto più accondiscendente.
01:17Però una cosa se la deve ricordare.
01:19Io e l'Italia non imploriamo mai.
01:24And let me take this to Gaurav Savant now joining us on the broadcast.
01:28Gaurav, rather embarrassing remark made by Donald Trump and Melanie giving it back to him.
01:32Do take us through details of both versions coming in.
01:36So, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, she made it very clear neither she nor Italy would ever beg.
01:44The two at one time were considered very close.
01:47You know, the US President Donald Trump, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
01:52But then, there were two issues that they've had of falling out on.
01:56One, you remember President Trump had criticised Pope Leo for his comments on the Iran war.
02:03And he'd lashed out at Pope Leo.
02:05And this is where Giorgia Meloni, she distanced herself from Donald Trump's comments
02:10and said they were completely uncalled for.
02:13That's the time President Trump, in a way, kind of hit out at point one, point two.
02:20Europe and the United States, anyways, are facing certain, you know, difference of opinion
02:27and rather strong differences of opinion on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,
02:33on how NATO should be funded, why US is not responsible for security of Europe
02:38and, of course, on the issue of Greenland.
02:40So, many of these issues, while, you know, for Trump swearing in
02:44and subsequently when he called European leaders, they all went to the United States.
02:49They all were at the Oval Office, at the White House.
02:51But the comments of President Trump, in a way, have angered several European leaders
02:58who've maintained their distance.
02:59And here, Giorgia Meloni making it very clear, saying that she's very astonished
03:04why he should make these comments that she was desperate for a selfie
03:08or she wanted a desperate, begged him for a selfie.
03:11He wouldn't have gone, he wasn't obliged to have a conversation with her, but he did.
03:16She says there was nothing of that sort.
03:19She's astonished why he would say something like this.
03:23Neither she nor Italy would ever beg Soyesha.
03:26Oh, yes, absolutely, Gaurav, and she's rightly given it back.
03:30Let's once again listen in to what she said.
03:34Giorgia Meloni making it very clear to you.
03:35Dunque, certe cose meritano una risposta immediata.
03:38Le dichiarazioni di Donald Trump sono dichiarazioni totalmente inventate.
03:42Sono francamente allibita.
03:43Non so perché il Presidente degli Stati Uniti si comporti così con i propri alleati.
03:48Non è del resto la prima volta che accade.
03:50Posso solo dire che dispiace che non abbia la stessa determinazione con i nemici dell'Occidente,
03:56con i nemici degli Stati Uniti, con leadership, con le quali invece si dimostra molto più accondiscendente.
04:02Però una cosa se la deve ricordare, io e l'Italia non imploriamo mai.
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