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WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump on Saturday lashed out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, insisting that she asked \u201cover and over\u201d for a photo with him at the recent Group of Seven summit and criticizing what he said was Italy\u2019s lack of cooperation during the Iran war.<\/p>\n

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The remarks deepen the spat that began this week with the Republican president\u2019s interview with an Italian broadcaster, during which Mr. Trump claimed Ms. Meloni \u201cbegged\u201d for the photo during the G7 meeting in France. Ms. Meloni has called that \u201ccompletely fabricated.\u201d The dustup led Italy\u2019s foreign minister to cancel a planned trip to the United States as Ms. Meloni\u2019s government lined up in her defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cItalian Prime Minister Gigiorgia Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G-7 meeting in France,\u201d Mr. Trump wrote on his social media platform while spending the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat. He misspelled her first name in the initial post, which he later corrected.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cShe is doing poorly in Italy with her level of popularity, possibly because she turned down the United States of America, a Country that truly loves and protects Italy, when it came to denying Iran from obtaining or developing a Nuclear Weapon (But so did NATO, for that matter!).\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mr. Trump\u2019s comments were aired Friday on the La7 network. A correspondent had asked the president about Ukraine, but Mr. Trump raised Ms. Meloni and made the claim about the photo. Mr. Trump said he was not obliged to take the picture with her but that he felt sorry for her and agreed, La7 said. The broadcaster put a dubbed version of the conversation online, but not the original English audio.<\/p>\n

In his post, Mr. Trump also complained that Ms. Meloni would not allow the U.S. to use Italy\u2019s landing strips or runways during the Iran war even though the U.S. is a leader in defense spending among NATO allies. That is a long-standing complaint about the military alliance and one that Mr. Trump raised before his White House meeting Wednesday with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and the NATO summit in Turkey next month.<\/p>\n

Italy, a key logistics hub for the U.S., declined in March to allow American bombers headed for the Middle East to use a base in Sicily without parliamentary approval. Mr. Trump vented his frustration about Ms. Meloni and on Saturday claimed that she \u201cwants to be friends again\u201d in light of the initial deal between the U.S. and Iran to end the war.<\/p>\n

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