Italy's top diplomat canceled a trip to the U.S. after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni slammed President Trump's claims that she "begged" him for a photo at the G7 summit. The dispute erupted after Trump told Italian broadcaster La7 that Meloni had pleaded with him for a photo at the meeting of leading industrialized nations in the French resort of Evian-les-Bains earlier this week.
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) invited President Trump to attend a Senate GOP luncheon on Wednesday at the Capitol to discuss the SAVE America Act. The post Rick Scott Announces President Trump will Attend Senate GOP Lunch to Discuss SAVE America Act appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Dispatch columnist Nick Catoggio says President Donald Trump has plopped such a noxious odor on right-wing ideology that even ideological diehards are leaping out of windows to avoid him.“After 10 years of degrading bootlicking obeisance by the president’s many courtiers, it was startling to see someone who needs a relationship with Trump assert her dignity against his insults,” said Catoggio, speaking of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s epic takedown and denial of Trump’s claim that she “begged” him to “take a picture with him.”In reaction Meloni exploded onto the news cycle, declaring that neither she nor Italy begs for anything.Of course Trump said it, suspects Catoggio: “Casually demeaning someone because he bears them a grudge is as instinctive to Donald Trump as applying bronzer or bloviating about ‘strength.’”“But those who need to stay on his good side — like, say, every Republican official in the country — are doomed to follow the Ted Cruz career arc between 2016 and 2021, broadly speaking,” Catoggio added. “That is, if Trump insults your wife, you find a way to let it slide and salute when he asks you to help him stage a coup.”Additionally, if you’re a European leader trying to cobble NATO together and keep Trump from siding with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Catoggio said “the cowardice of the American leadership class” leaves you with few allies within the U.S. willing to support your resistance to Trump.“And so the prudent, if pathetic, thing to do when an imperious postliberal goblin insulted you was to bite your tongue,” said Catoggio. “Not Meloni, though. She’s had enough.”Still, Catoggio suspects Trump’s character and behavior on other matters is driving the Italian leader's anger. “She’s a right-wing nationalist, like the president himself. She promotes Christian values and the traditional family model, and presumably she’d like to see that vision make inroads across the continent,” Catoggio said. But “Trump is killing her chances.”“The more right-wing politics becomes associated with fat orange clownery, the less European voters will want any part of it,” said Catoggio — and she’s not the only right wing leader fearing for the stain Trump leaves on their argument.Far-right European leaders, he said, have been running away from the president for months, in fact. Anger at the Iran war’s global impact on energy costs is a start, but Trump’s behavior is also to blame. Jordan Bardella, the head of France’s leading nationalist party summed up Trump’s antics as, “not only erratic but also extremely unsteady and constantly shifting. … [We need to] allow powers that are a bit bewildered by the United States — and who no longer understand the comings and goings of the American president, particularly on defense — to be able to find in the French defense industry a backup option.”“The incident with Meloni is simply another bewildering episode involving the American president that can only hurt the United States and make the global right he unofficially leads look petty, tactless, impetuous, and stupid,” said Catoggio. “Maybe Meloni’s irritation is less a product of her pride being wounded than her resentment at being saddled with a prominent ideological ally who’s discrediting their mutual cause. She’s doing what she can to re-dignify it.”Catoggio added that congressional Republicans should meditate on Meloni’s streak of independence, but he added “we’re waaaaaaay past the point of salvaging the respectability of right-wing politics in the U.S.”“So enjoy the Giorgian rebellion abroad,” he concluded. “It’s the closest to dignity from a conservative official that you and I will witness in 2026.”
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Saturday refused to say who he voted for in the race to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-Manhattan), yet he continued to push three fellow far-left comrades also running for Congress.
Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz again, accusing the US of violating the memorandum of understanding signed earlier this week. Hezbollah and Israel continued fighting on Saturday morning, with Hezbollah launching dozens of projectiles and Israeli strikes killing more than a dozen people, CBS reports. The post Iran Says It’s Closing the Strait of Hormuz After Accusing US and Israel of Violations – VP Vance Says Strait is Still Open With Record Amount of Traffic (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
President Donald Trump floated a plan Saturday that he hoped will “totally discombobulate” journalists and make them “go totally crazy” – a plan he asked his supporters for feedback on in a post on social media.That plan, as Trump explained, would be to rename Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the “National Immigration and Customs Enforcement" (NICE), an idea he floated last month to little fanfare. Such an action would require approval from Congress, something that appears unlikely given Republicans’ razor-thin majority.“The concept I have had for quite some time – A strong feeling that the name of these Patriots, ‘ICE,’ should be changed to, ‘NICE,’ in that it will totally discombobulate Crooked, Dishonest, and Unpatriotic Reporters and Journalists,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “For them to say, ‘We went to a NICE Facility today,’ as opposed to ‘ICE’ or, ‘NICE Agents have deported a Violent Drug Dealer,’ they won’t be able to handle it, they will go totally crazy! Everyone loves it, but I have been told by the legendary Tom Homan that the Agents do not love it as much as the other population. Who thinks that we should add an ‘N’ to change the name of ‘ICE’ to ‘NICE?’”Just as he had done about an hour earlier, Trump also included a poll in his social media post to gauge his supporters’ thoughts on the matter. As of 10:40 a.m. ET, 81% of Trump’s followers indicated they supported the name change.Trump’s two polls come amid the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran falling apart, with Iranian military officials announcing earlier Saturday morning that the Strait of Hormuz was, again, closed to commercial traffic citing a violation of the agreement.
Alex Bruesewitz, an adviser to President Donald Trump, lashed out at Fox News host Mark Levin Saturday over Levin’s continued criticisms of the tentative peace deal the Trump administration had agreed to with Iran, going as far as to suggest he was working on behalf of a foreign government.Previously a “Never Trump” conservative, Levin has championed the president amid his deeply unpopular war against Iran. After the Trump administration reached a tentative peace deal with Iran, however, Levin appeared to reverse course and repeatedly attacked the Trump administration for having “capitulated” to Iran’s demands.Levin’s latest criticism of the Trump administration was lobbed Saturday morning on social media where he sarcastically criticized a social media post from Trump in which the president appeared to back the idea that he “holds the cards” in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election chances.“Surely we’re not interfering in another country’s election,” Levin wrote. “We oppose that. Must be fake news.”After seeing Levin’s social media post, Bruesewitz issued the Fox News host a blistering response.“Hey [Levin], I’m getting really sick of you attacking President Trump,” Bruesewitz wrote in a social media post on X.Bruesewitz flagged a report by The Times of Israel on Thursday about Netanyahu’s supposed plans to “use right-wing media personalities” to “influence” the terms of the tentative peace deal between Washington and Tehran. The report explicitly names Levin as an example.“This report came out a couple of days ago and I haven’t seen you respond to it,” Bruesewitz wrote.“Are you working with a foreign government to try to influence the American people’s opinion and President Trump’s deal with Iran? Or are you just spreading lies and misinformation because you are returning to your anti-Trump roots?”Bruesewitz has supported Trump since 2015 and was an organizer behind the Stop the Steal movement, the movement led by those who falsely allege that systemic voter fraud occurred in the 2020 election that culminated with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021.Hey @marklevinshow, I’m getting really sick of you attacking President Trump.This report came out a couple of days ago and I haven’t seen you respond to it.Are you working with a foreign government to try to influence the American people’s opinion and President Trump’s deal… https://t.co/hdfpjV0AOI pic.twitter.com/K4pe39r2iK— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) June 20, 2026