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Trump calls Italian PM Giorgia Meloni ‘a real live wire’ after world leaders meet in Paris

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Trump calls Italian PM Giorgia Meloni ‘a real live wire’ after world leaders meet in Paris

President-elect Donald Trump described Italy’s conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as a “real live wire” after meeting her and other world leaders in Paris.

Trump, 76, told The Post that his meet-and-greet with the Italian leader at the reopening of the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral on Sunday was “great” and that she had a “lot of energy.”

“I was with her a lot,” Trump said of Meloni — noting that they dined together during a 60-member world leader reception.


President-elect Donald Trump described Italy’s conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as a “real live wire” after meeting her and other world leaders in Paris on Sunday. ZUMAPRESS.com

“We got along great,” Trump added.

The Republican acknowledged that the group of world leaders at the reopening of the church was a “similar group” from four years ago when he was last in the White House — and that he hoped they could “straighten out the world a little bit.”


Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni smiles on the day she meets NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at Chigi Palace in Rome, Italy, November 5, 2024.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni smiles on the day she meets NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at Chigi Palace in Rome, Italy, November 5, 2024. REUTERS

Meloni, meanwhile, was elected Italy’s first female PM in 2022 after Trump left office.

The 47-year-old has since become a conservative force in European politics with polls showing her among one of the popular national leaders in the region.

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