{"id":457465,"date":"2026-06-19T18:25:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/06\/19\/lamico-che-non-ti-aspetti-sanchez-esprime-solidarieta-a-meloni-per-lattacco-di-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:36:51","slug":"an-unexpected-ally-sanchez-expresses-solidarity-with-meloni-following-trumps-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/06\/19\/an-unexpected-ally-sanchez-expresses-solidarity-with-meloni-following-trumps-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"An unexpected ally: S\u00e1nchez expresses solidarity with Meloni following Trump\u2019s attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 \u201cThis attack is neither political nor personal. I don\u2019t even know how to describe it.\u201d This is how Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, the Spanish Prime Minister, commented on remarks by US President Donald Trump about Italian Prime Minister<\/span> Giorgia Meloni<\/strong>. Today (19 June), Trump appeared on the programme “L\u2019Aria che tira” on La7<\/em><\/a>, giving his views on the G7 summit held from 15 to 17 June in \u00c9vian, France. \u201cShe begged me to have my photo taken with her; I felt sorry for her<\/strong>,\u201d said the US President, referring to Meloni. He added: \u201cShe\u2019s probably glad I spoke to her! I wasn\u2019t obliged to speak to her<\/strong>.” <\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez took the opportunity of the press conference at the close of the European Council<\/a> to express his solidarity with the Prime Minister, adding that he had done so \u201cin private as well, during the summit of Member States.\u201d French President Emmanuel Macron, too, at the end of the summit, said he was \u201csurprised by Trump\u2019s attack on Meloni,\u201d explaining that he would discuss the matter with the Prime Minister at their meeting next Thursday (25 June) at the 36th Franco-Italian summit in Antibes. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s comments clash with Meloni\u2019s statements at the G7, where the Prime Minister had claimed that the difficulties in the relationship between the two had now been overcome. \u201cWe\u2019ve always been friends,\u201d she had joked. And at a press conference the day before yesterday, she described their relationship as \u201cunchanged.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Prime Minister\u2019s response to Trump\u2019s interview came as early as this morning<\/strong>, in a video recorded on the sidelines of the meetings in Brussels. \u201cCertain things deserve an immediate response: Donald Trump\u2019s statements are completely fabricated; frankly, I am stunned,\u201d she said. \u201cI do not know why the President of the United States behaves this way towards his own allies; after all, this is not the first time it has happened. I can only say that it is a pity he does not show the same resolve towards the West\u2019s enemies, towards the enemies of the United States, towards leaders with whom he proves to be far more accommodating<\/strong>. But there is one thing he must remember: Italy and I never beg!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Italy and I never beg. pic.twitter.com\/sTpKlqWB67<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) 19 June 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Prime Minister was summoned by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella<\/strong>. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani then decided to cancel his planned visit to the United States on 21 and 22 June<\/strong> following \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s serious and offensive remarks towards Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni,\u201d which \u201coffend the whole of Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s serious and offensive remarks directed at Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are an insult to the whole of Italy. For this reason, I have decided to cancel my visit to the United States, which was scheduled for 21 and 22 June.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Antonio Tajani (@Antonio_Tajani)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Spanish Prime Minister expressed solidarity with Meloni after Donald Trump, the US President, stated that he had taken a photo with her at the G7 because he had been \u201cbegged\u201d and \u201cfelt sorry for her.\u201d S\u00e1nchez found the attack difficult to comment on, describing it as \u201cneither political nor personal.\u201d French President Macron was also \u201csurprised\u201d by the White House occupant\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7911,"featured_media":457426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712,25681],"tags":[27335,26231,26002,28967,34532,29164,33394],"class_list":["post-457465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-council-en","tag-g7-en-2","tag-meloni-and","tag-sanchez-en","tag-solidarieta","tag-trump-en","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457466,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457465\/revisions\/457466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}