"We'll talk about America another time. Now it's Armed Forces Day, November 4th." This is how Giorgia Meloni responded to journalists' questions, preferring not to comment on Donald Trump's resounding defeat in the US midterm elections .
But the controversy surrounding Antonio Tajani's statements is particularly hot: "We have never been Trump supporters, not even Meloni is a Maga and she has said no to Trump many times."
Thus the deputy prime minister became an easy target for the centre-left, which accused the government of "subservience to Trump's policies" and of "lacking decency" in now dissociating itself from them .
"A skilled illusionist, the author of the joke of the day," according to Piero De Luca of the Democratic Party. "Maybe now they'll come and tell us they never proposed the Nobel Peace Prize to Trump," adds Five Star Movement member Riccardo Ricciardi.












