Giorgia Meloni visits Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

88% : "This is very exciting -- I'm here with a fantastic woman -- the prime minister of Italy," Trump told the audience at Mar-a-Lago.
68% : She was an ardent admirer of Trump during his first term -- when she was still a fringe opposition figure -- and has more recently forged a close friendship with Trump adviser Elon Musk, the world's richest man.
65% : Trump has expressed enthusiasm for the Italian leader, who he also met last month in Paris during the reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral.
56% : Giorgia Meloni had dinner with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago golf club on Saturday, as the Italian prime minister seeks to strengthen ties with the US president-elect ahead of his swearing in.
47% : Rome is also far short of its Nato commitment to spend 2 per cent of GDP on defence -- a big focus for Trump, who wants Europe to pay more of its own security expenses.
44% : Meloni is one of a handful of foreign leaders to have trekked to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump after his re-election and before his inauguration on January 20.
41% : The Sala case is not the only issue likely to test Rome's relationship with Washington, once Trump returns to the White House later this month.
27% : Canada's premier Justin Trudeau also made an emergency visit after Trump threatened to slap Canada with 25 per cent import tariffs.
21% : Businesses fear that Italy's economy will suffer a heavy blow if Trump follows through on his promise to impose heavy tariffs on all imports.

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