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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni clapped back at reporters and dropped a powerful new populist slogan on Thursday at the White House. Before stepping into the Oval Office, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with President Trump and his cabinet to talk trade. The press showed up eager to ignite a headline, hoping for signs of a looming tariff war between the U.S. and the EU.

But Meloni didn’t take the bait.

Instead of grandstanding, she delivered a steady, confident show of diplomacy—and extended a personal invitation to President Trump.

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When a reporter tried to stir the pot, asking, “The retaliatory tariffs that the European Commission passed and then suspended, are they still on the table if you cannot make a deal with President Trump?”—Meloni didn’t blink.

“I am sure we can make a deal,” she said.

She made it clear she wasn’t there on behalf of Brussels. Her focus was on building trust. “I’m here to help on that. I cannot, look, deal in the name of the European Union,” she explained.

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“My goal would be to invite President Trump to pay a visit to Italy and understand if there’s a possibility when he comes to organize also such a meeting with Europe.”

Her approach was refreshingly direct. Skip the drama. Talk straight. Find common ground. “I think the best way is that we simply speak frankly about the needs that everyone has, and find ourselves in the middle for—that’s useful for all,” she said.

Asked about her politics, she didn’t back away. “Somebody calls me such a ‘Western nationalism,’ I don’t know if it is the right words, but I’m sure that together we are stronger.”

And she left with a message that couldn’t be clearer: “And I have to find a way—I’m here to find the best way to make us both stronger on both sides of the Atlantic.”

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After lunch, the cameras rolled inside the Oval Office, and President Trump did something rare—he offered unfiltered praise.

“She has taken Europe by storm,” he said, setting the tone right away. “It’s an honor to have the prime minister of Italy with us. Prime Minister Meloni, who’s doing a fantastic job.”

“Everybody loves her and respects her, and I can’t say that about many people,” Trump added.

“She’s become a friend, and we really have a great relationship between Italy and ourselves.”

What unfolded in that room wasn’t politics as usual. It was strength recognizing strength.

That’s when Meloni shattered the media’s favorite narrative—that Trump is turning his back on Europe and dismantling alliances.

Sitting beside him, she laid out just how closely aligned they are, touching on everything from migration to energy to confronting radical leftist ideologies.

“We both share another fight, which is the fight against woke and EDI [DEI] ideology that would like to erase our history.”

She continued without missing a beat.

“We share lots of things on tackling illegal migration. On fighting against synthetic drugs. You know Italy has been one of the nations that made a plan against fentanyl, for example.”

“We have been talking about many bilateral topics and things that we can do together, about defense, about the economy, about space, about energy,” Meloni added.

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On energy, she was clear: “I think there can be ways to work together.”

And on trade, she brought receipts: “Italian enterprises will invest, as they’ve been doing for many years… in the next year, I think around $10 billion.”

Two sovereign nations. One shared vision.

And then came the moment that made the globalist elites squirm.

This wasn’t just a meeting—it was the birth of a slogan that could define their alliance for years to come.

Meloni called for a historic partnership between the U.S. and Italy, united by a single mission: to “Make the West Great Again.”

“When I speak about West, mainly I don’t speak about a geographical space,” she said. “I speak about a civilization. And I want to make that civilization stronger.”

She acknowledged the growing divide between the U.S. and Europe but made it clear—it’s not too late to fix it. That’s when she extended the invitation.

“I want to thank President Trump for having accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Rome… and consider the possibility in that occasion to meet also with Europe.”

And then she closed with the line that said it all.

“The goal for me is to ‘Make the West Great Again.’”

Meloni isn’t just standing for Italy. She’s standing for the soul of the West. And in her eyes, Trump is the one strong enough to help save it.

But of course, the media couldn’t help themselves. They tried to sabotage the moment with a cheap shot at Trump.

A reporter accused him of calling Europeans “parasites,” asking, “Are you sure about the definition of parasite? Would you say that again? That Europeans are parasites?”

Meloni saw it coming and shut it down immediately. “He’s never said that.”

Trump turned to her, then addressed the reporter directly: “Have you ever said that Europeans are parasites? Have you said it?”

Then, to the room: “No. I haven’t said—I don’t know what—I don’t even know what you’re talking about, actually.”

Meloni backed him up again: “He didn’t say it.”

The reporter tried to push forward, but Trump wasn’t having it. “Go ahead. No, no. Wait. Wait. Next! Next.”

Game over. A textbook tag-team takedown of media spin—in real time. And that’s how you shut down a fake narrative before it even begins.