Trump renews feud with Italy PM Giorgia Meloni by suggesting she's stalking him in latest social media post

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Monday 06 July 2026 08:07 EDT


Donald Trump has reignited his feud with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in a fresh social media post. ​

Trump shared a picture of Meloni, who has been previously referred to in the press as the “Trump whisperer,” looking up at the U.S. president and smiling on Truth Social on Sunday evening. ​

A caption across the top of the picture read, “Restraining order needed.”​

Previously, Trump has sung Meloni’s praises, describing her a “beautiful young woman”.However, the pair became embroiled in a public feud following a Truth Social post on 20 June, in which Trump accused Meloni of asking for a picture with him “over and over” at the G7 Summit in France.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-giorgia-meloni-truth-social-feud-row-b3009534.html

[twodogsbarking]

1. In your dreams squash face.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. trump is nuts

[usonian]

3. FASCISTS IN DISARRAY!

Wish I could take comfort from that.

[enough]

4. This stuff -- harassing individuals from a distance -- is the true lifeblood

of Trump’s inner life.

[PatSeg]

10. And the farther away the more brazen he becomes

He's great at being a long distance bully.

[Jacson6]

5. That dude is one sick dog. G'sus! n/t

[Buddyzbuddy]

6. I guess ginger Jabba doesn't realize how repulsive he is.

Or, does he?

[Martin68]

7. So Trump is stalking a female Prime Minister. and the Republican Congress and Trumps' Cabinet continue to

do nothing. They are all complicit in the total degradation of the US presidency and the total humiliation of the entire country.

[MLWR]

8. "Trump renews feud with Italy PM Giorgia Meloni by suggesting she's stalking him"

You wish. He is so effing full of himself. Meloni, I'm sure, has better things to do than stalk the likes of TACO.

[Miguelito Loveless]

9. The world seems to be full of fools

who think think they have a handle on the Child Rapist.

[Prairie Gates]

11. If I gave Trump any credit for being smart, I would even think this is strategy

Trump is so universally reviled and held in so much contempt in Italy that continuing the feud with Meloni actually increases her popularity. If the goal is to keep right wingers in power in Europe after the collapse of Orbanism, manufacturing some goofy feud with Meloni would be one way to accomplish that.

Of course, Trump is not actually smart, and would never consent to being mocked or defied by a woman, even if that accrued to his general benefit. So, yeah, this is just the usual Trump idiocy, even if it does end up helping Meloni a lot to be in a feud with Trump.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Fact Check: 'Restraining Order' Image of Meloni Gazing at Trump is EDITED -- Not Original

A still image taken from that video shows the position of the participants in question. From left to right: Costa; Trump; Meloni; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. In the background, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney; Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Those body positions clearly match those shown in larger, uncropped versions of the "gazing" image shared by Trump:

The most important difference between the two versions can be found in the high-resolution, open-eyed "gazing" expression on Meloni's face, which some observers might interpret as admiring -- hence the "restraining order" joke shared by Trump on July 5.

But that expression cannot be found in the original video, and was therefore the result of digital editing, perhaps including the use of AI enhancement.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/fact-check-restraining-order-image-144438082.html

I think someone in Trump's entourage remembers that frightening photo of a MAGA woman looking crazily at him, at the front row of a rally - can't find it right now, but I think some will know the picture I mean.

[Bayard]

13. One more embarrassing example of trump's monstrous ego

He truly thinks all women want him, and all men want to be him.

[Karasu]

14. This is coming off as a one-sided fantasy that he's projecting onto her because he actually wishes it was true.