{"id":4814,"date":"2026-06-20T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/20\/italys-meloni-rejects-trumps-begged-photo-claim-top-diplomat-cancels-us-trip\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:59:16","slug":"italys-meloni-rejects-trumps-begged-photo-claim-top-diplomat-cancels-us-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/20\/italys-meloni-rejects-trumps-begged-photo-claim-top-diplomat-cancels-us-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s Meloni Rejects Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Begged&#8217; Photo Claim; Top Diplomat Cancels US Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has strongly refuted claims by former U.S. President Donald Trump that she &#8220;begged&#8221; for a photo at the G7 summit. In response, Italy&#8217;s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani canceled a planned trip to the U.S., calling Trump&#8217;s remarks &#8220;serious and offensive.&#8221; Meloni stated, &#8220;Italy and I do not beg,&#8221; emphasizing the fabricated nature of the accusations.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/id\/108082367\/photo\/prime-minister-of-italy-giorgia-meloni-on-nov-20-2024-in-buenos-aires-argentina.jpg?s=612x612&amp;w=gi&amp;k=20&amp;c=m4n-Y9J8Jz-Bq3c4e3R0o3_yYm4A1-qJz8i0G5J7G9Y=\" alt=\"Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni\"><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/11\/22\/meloni-slams-trump-claim-she-begged-for-photo-as-italys-top-diplomat-cancels-us-trip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has strongly refuted claims by former U.S. President Donald Trump that she &#8220;begged&#8221; for a photo at the G7 summit. In response, Italy&#8217;s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani canceled a planned trip to the U.S., calling Trump&#8217;s remarks &#8220;serious and offensive.&#8221; Meloni stated, &#8220;Italy and I do not beg,&#8221; emphasizing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/id\/108082367\/photo\/prime-minister-of-italy-giorgia-meloni-on-nov-20-2024-in-buenos-aires-argentina.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=m4n-Y9J8Jz-Bq3c4e3R0o3_yYm4A1-qJz8i0G5J7G9Y=","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global-affairs","category-global-security","rifnote_country-italy","rifnote_country-united-states","rifnote_competition-g7-summit","rifnote_executive-abdel-fattah-el-sisi","rifnote_executive-antonio-costa","rifnote_executive-antonio-tajani","rifnote_executive-carlo-nordio","rifnote_executive-donald-trump","rifnote_executive-emmanuel-macron","rifnote_executive-friedrich-merz","rifnote_executive-giorgia-meloni","rifnote_executive-guido-crosetto","rifnote_executive-keir-starmer","rifnote_executive-lee-jae-myung","rifnote_executive-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva","rifnote_executive-marco-rubio","rifnote_executive-mark-carney","rifnote_executive-matteo-salvini","rifnote_executive-narendra-modi","rifnote_executive-pedro-sanchez","rifnote_executive-sanae-takaichi","rifnote_executive-sergio-mattarella","rifnote_executive-ursula-von-der-leyen","rifnote_executive-william-ruto"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/id\/108082367\/photo\/prime-minister-of-italy-giorgia-meloni-on-nov-20-2024-in-buenos-aires-argentina.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=m4n-Y9J8Jz-Bq3c4e3R0o3_yYm4A1-qJz8i0G5J7G9Y=","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}