For some viewers of the recent White House summit between President Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and European leaders, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni stole the show. In The Spectator, Madeline Grant explains the rise of Meloni, writing:
Upon becoming Italy’s Prime Minister in 2022, Ms Meloni was written off by the bien-pensant Anglophone press as a far-right extremist, destined for her rag tag coalition to crash like so many Italian governments before. Contra this narrative, she took her seat beside President Trump at the leaders’ round table in Washington DC yesterday. He even complimented her longevity in a famously unstable political climate: “You’ve been there for a long period of time relative to others. They don’t last very long; you’ve lasted a long time. You’re going to be there a long time.”
Such prominence for an Italian leader would have been unthinkable a little while ago. Italy’s schizophrenic political culture and its resolute failure to commit to NATO defense spending goals had made it easy for the France-German alliance to usher the Italians into a side room alongside the Spanish, Greeks and other “full partners” in the European enterprise.
Not so now. Meloni is not only making positive moves on defense and standing firm on the issue of Ukraine (earning her the ire of the actual Italian far right), but she is also overseeing one of Europe’s only successful economies. She is seen by many as a Trump whisperer, able to wrap the notoriously erratic and bizarre President around her finger.
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JUST IN: President Trump gives huge compliments to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House
“[She] is a great leader and an inspiration over there!” “You are going to be there a long time!”
Meloni’s easily Trump and America’s best friend in Europe pic.twitter.com/5aZiJXfykX
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 18, 2025
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