{"id":3174,"date":"2026-06-19T20:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:35:54","slug":"a-growing-number-of-foreign-leaders-have-had-it-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3174","title":{"rendered":"A growing number of foreign leaders have had it with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni publicly criticized President Donald Trump after he claimed she begged for a photo with him.<\/li>\n<li>Her criticism is part of a growing pattern of world leaders speaking out against Trump&#8217;s provocations and declining political stock.<\/li>\n<li>Allies have increasingly challenged Trump on issues from the Iran war to his threats against Greenland and NATO.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni could have denied Trump\u2019s claim that she begged him to take a photo together, and left it at that.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3172\">DOJ rebuffs judge\u2019s request for Blanche to declare in court that anti-weaponization fund is dead<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Instead, she went much further. She posted a video on X Friday that made a show of standing up to Trump and linked the episode to his ill treatment of allies.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI can only say that it\u2019s a shame he doesn\u2019t have the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaderships with which he instead appears much more accommodating,\u201d Meloni said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            It was a broadside \u2014 and not just from any leader. This is a right-wing leader that some have compared to Trump.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But in finding some backbone vis-\u00e0-vis Trump, Meloni has plenty of company these days. While Trump has long reveled in throwing his weight around on the world stage and forcing leaders to cater to him, his growing provocations and declining political stock appear to have steeled some of those leaders\u2019 spines to speak out against him.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20260609-trump-g7.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2827\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6cecd90f867f2629a79aa83dcd510633.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Photo Illustration by Alberto Mier\/CNN\/Getty Images\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Trump\u2019s recent insults show just how strained his relationships with G7 leaders have become<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>3  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            This isn\u2019t even the first time Meloni has gone down this road. Back in April, she called Trump\u2019s criticisms of Pope Leo XIV \u201cunacceptable.\u201d (Just a month earlier, Trump had called Meloni an \u201cexcellent leader\u201d and a \u201cfriend.\u201d)\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Somewhat similar to Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron \u2014 who just hosted a lavish dinner for Trump in Versailles at the end of the G7 summit \u2014 has previously responded strongly to a pretty personal remark from the US president.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Earlier this spring, Trump alluded to 2025 video showing Brigitte Macron appearing to\u202fshove\u202fher husband in the face. He said Macron\u2019s \u201cwife treats him extremely badly\u201d and that he was \u201cstill recovering from the right to the jaw.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Macron in April responded that Trump\u2019s comments \u201cweren\u2019t elegant, and they weren\u2019t up to par.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Around the same time, Macron made veiled remarks aimed at Trump\u2019s handling of the Iran war. He said the war was \u201cnot a show\u201d and urged his American counterpart to be more careful about his comments.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWhen you want to be serious, you don\u2019t say every day the opposite of what you said the day before,\u201d Macron said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Unhappiness with the Iran war undergirds a number of the most recent rebukes of Trump. German Prime Minister Friedrich Merz in his own veiled comments suggested in April that the Iranians were stringing Trump along.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3170\">Trump unveils a new presidential airplane<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cAnd then letting the Americans travel to Islamabad, only to send them back without any results,\u201d Merz said in late April after failed peace talks. \u201cAn entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, especially by these so-called Revolutionary Guards.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the early days of the conflict, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez called it \u201creckless and illegal\u201d and said Spain would \u201cnot be complicit in something that is bad for the world \u2026 simply out of fear of reprisals from someone.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            He declined to celebrate too much when a ceasefire began in April.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket,\u201d S\u00e1nchez said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But this trend dates back to early this year.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A number of leaders spoke out in January, for instance, about the unacceptability of Trump\u2019s flirtation with taking over Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory that\u2019s part of NATO ally Denmark.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose country Trump has also suggested he could commandeer, followed that up with a speech in Davos, Switzerland, that laid out a path forward for a decoupling from the United States.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Referring to Trump\u2019s trade wars, Carney decried using \u201ceconomic integration as weapons,\u201d \u201ctariffs as leverage,\u201d and \u201csupply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.\u201d He said the \u201cmiddle powers must act together because if we\u2019re not at the table, we\u2019re on the menu.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A couple days later, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called Trump\u2019s comments claiming NATO troops in Afghanistan had avoided fighting on the frontlines \u201cinsulting and frankly appalling.\u201d (In fact, more than 1,000 NATO troops were killed in the war.) Trump the next day cleaned up his comments by praising British troops and their sacrifices.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            By April, Starmer complained that the British people\u2019s energy bills were swinging wildly \u201cbecause of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.\u201d He also rebuked Trump\u2019s threat to destroy a \u201cwhole civilization\u201d in Iran.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cI\u2019m fed up,\u201d he added.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That seems to be a trend with prominent allies.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump has been able to throw his weight around with them because of how powerful the US government is. And as is the case with Republicans in Washington trying to navigate Trump, the easy play is to just go along to get along \u2014 to not rock the boat and hope everything turns out okay.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But at some point, that risks emboldening the president to do yet more things that are going to make their lives hell.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump\u2019s trade war didn\u2019t seem to be a red line for many of these leaders, but he\u2019s clearly touched some nerves with the Greenland talk and now the Iran war, which has negatively impacted all of the world\u2019s economy.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=3168\">Vance\u2019s threat is the latest sign US could be breaking with Israel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            And Meloni\u2019s rebuke Friday is a punctuation mark.\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni could have denied Trump\u2019s claim that she begged him to take a photo together, and left it at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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