Thread by The Vigilant Fox on X, April 17, 2025
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Editor’s note: This thread is full of clips from the meeting posted on X. The full meeting in the Oval Office as posted on the White House YouTube channel is down at the end, including questions from the press.
Before the Oval Office meeting, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with President Trump and his cabinet to talk trade.
The media came hungry for a headline about a brewing tariff war with the EU.
But instead of posturing, Meloni delivered a masterclass in diplomacy—and extended an invitation to President Trump.
When a reporter tried to stir up drama—
“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 hesitate:
“I am sure we can make a deal.”
She made clear she wasn’t speaking for Brussels—just trying to build bridges.
“I’m here to help on that. I cannot, look, deal in the name of the European Union.”
Then came the move:
“My goal would be, 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 strategy was simple: skip the drama, talk straight, and find common ground.
“I think the best way is that we simply speak frankly about the needs that every one of us has, and find ourselves in the middle for——that’s useful for all.”
And when asked about her politics?
“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.”
Then she closed with a message loud and clear:
“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 doesn’t hand out praise easily. But this time, he meant it.
“She has taken Europe by storm.”
This wasn’t just standard protocol. It was genuine.
“It’s an honor to have the prime minister of Italy with us,” he said. “Prime Minister Meloni, who’s doing a fantastic job.”
Then he took it up a notch:
“Everybody loves her and respects her, and I can’t say that about many people.”
No script. No spin. Just raw respect.
“She’s become a friend, and we really have a great relationship between Italy and ourselves.”
What we saw wasn’t politics as usual. It was strength meeting strength.
That’s when Meloni destroyed the media’s favorite narrative—that Trump is turning his back on Europe and destroying alliances.
Sitting beside him, she laid out how closely aligned the two are on everything from migration to energy to fighting 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 didn’t stop there:
“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.”
Then she made it clear—this isn’t some temporary alliance.
“We have been talking about many bilateral topics and things that we can do together, about defense, about the economy, about space, about energy.”
On energy:
“I think there can be ways to work together.”
On trade:
“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 was of course the slogan that will define their meeting, and their partnership for years to come.
Meloni called for a historic alliance between the U.S. and Italy—to Make the West Great Again.
This wasn’t diplomacy. It was defiance.
“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 rift between the U.S. and Europe—and said now’s the time to fix it.
Then came the official invite:
“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 she ended with a line that hit like thunder:
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But of course, the media couldn’t help themselves.
They tried to sabotage the moment with a cheap shot at Trump—and got absolutely wrecked for it.
A reporter accused Trump of calling Europeans “parasites.”
“Are you sure about the definition of parasite? Would say that again? That Europeans are parasites?”
Meloni saw it coming from a mile away and instantly shut it down:
“He’s never said that.”
Trump turned to her, then clarified with the reporter:
“Have you ever said that Europeans are parasites? Have you said it?”
Then, to the press:
“No. I haven’t said—I don’t know what—I don’t even know what you’re talking about actually.”
Meloni backed up friend again:
“He didn’t say it.”
The reporter tried to press on. 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.
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The meeting ended on an optimistic note—with a clear message: the pendulum is finally swinging back on immigration.
Trump unleashed on Europe’s failed open-border agenda.
“And I’m not a big fan [of] Europe and what they’ve done with immigration at all,” he said.
“I think they got to get smart because Europe is being very badly hurt by what they’ve done with immigration.”
Then he turned to praise Meloni for taking the kind of stand most EU leaders wouldn’t dare.
“I’ll say this, that the prime minister has taken a very tough stand on immigration, and I commented to her before, I said, I wish more people would be like you.”
“I want Europe to do very well. I think they have to get a lot smarter on immigration.”
Meloni didn’t hesitate—she made it clear: the tide is starting to turn, and Italy is leading the way.
“We are beginning to do it.”
“You will see now the policies of the European Union, in the last, let’s say two and a half years, have been changing.”
“At the beginning we were talking only about how we were redistributing illegal migrants coming to Italy. Now we are talking mainly about how to stop illegal migration.”
“So things are changing.”
“We are working now together, so I’m optimistic on that.”
After years of unchecked chaos, it finally sounds like European leaders are waking up—with Meloni standing in the gap as the original bulwark against the globalists in Brussels.
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The full meeting…
Bonus
And in case you missed it, from back in September of last year, Georgia was clear on her feelings about France’s exploitation of 14 African nations. I really like her.
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