Meloni and Trump: A very public Italy-US fallout that is proving very hard to fix - BBC News

Italy's PM was not long ago being called the "Trump whisperer", but their relationship has gone from public attacks to personal insults.

Image source, EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockImage caption, Relations between Italy's prime minister and President Trump have worsened considerably since 2025

There is an AI-generated meme doing the rounds on social media in Italy that shows Giorgia Meloni doing all the things you might expect from someone fresh out of a tough break-up.

In one fake photo she has a new haircut; in others she is imagined booking herself on a singles' holiday, training for a marathon and creating a profile on a dating app.

Of course none of the images are real, but the joke has landed because it captures the very public political fall-out between the Italian prime minister and US President Donald Trump.

Their relationship has over the past few months gone from public attacks to personal insults and back again, cooling what used to be one of the most watched alliances in European politics.