US President Donald Trump has turned his fire on Italian premier Giorgia Meloni after she called his criticism of Pope Leo XIV “unacceptable” and did not back the US-Israel war on Iran. “I thought she had courage,” Mr Trump said in an interview with leading Italian daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera. “I was wrong.”

Pres. Trump hit back at Italian PM Meloni amid her absence from the Iranian conflict and defense of Pope Leo, deeming her "unacceptable."

Giorgia Meloni lacks courage and has let Washington down, Trump said on Tuesday, in a public rebuke of one of his closest European allies.