President-elect Donald Trump’s favorite right-wing firebrand from afar dropped in to Mar-a-Lago for a surprise, unofficial visit Saturday. “This is very exciting, I’m here with a fantastic woman, the prime minister of Italy,” he told onlookers of Giorgia Meloni, who made an unofficial visit to his Mar-a-Lago estate, according to a pool report. “She’s really taken Europe by storm, and everyone else, and we’re just having dinner tonight.” A source told Bloomberg that Trump and Meloni talked about tariffs and the case of an Italian journalist who was detained in Iran last month. They also watched a movie about Trump’s deranged insistence that he won the 2020 election, which he lost. Joined by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL)—Trump’s nominees for secretary of state and national security advisor—they screened The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice, a sympathetic portrait of Trump lawyer John Eastman, who has been criminally indicted for trying to overturn the 2020 vote. Like US Republicans, Meloni has made a habit of crusading on “anti-woke” cultural issues: her government has moved to block same-sex couples from registering newborn children and allowed hardline anti-choice groups access to reproductive health clinics to shame women planning to obtain abortions. She has also expressed particular fondness for the President-elect’s MAGA backer Elon Musk, whom she called a “genius” wrongly cast by opponents as a “monster” for his Trump support.
President-elect Trump leaves the premiere of a documentary about John Eastman at Mar-a-Lago. Italian PM Meloni, Rubio, Bessent, Waltz and others joined him this evening. pic.twitter.com/YWIQ8qGg7U
