Trump's personal feuds with allies from Italy to Israel reveal how personality drives his foreign policy

Donald Trump has had a falling retired with the Italian premier minister. 

In fact, arsenic you whitethorn person heard, the full state is aggravated with the president. 

Giorgia Meloni deed backmost hard, accusing Trump of fabricating a communicative astir her. 

Trump had said: "She begged maine to instrumentality a representation with her. She wanted a representation with maine truthful ​badly. I wouldn’t person taken it, but I felt atrocious for her."

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends her yearly property league successful Rome connected Jan. 9, 2026. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

"Donald Trump’s statements are wholly made up," said the premier minister, who has been an ally. "I americium frankly astonished. I don’t ‌know wherefore ⁠the president of the United States behaves similar this towards his allies: it is not the archetypal time, moreover...

"There is 1 happening helium should remember: Neither I nor Italy ever beg."

The flap, which prompted Italy's overseas curate to cancel a planned U.S. visit, underscores however Trump's policies, present and abroad, are driven by idiosyncratic relationships.

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 What we mightiness presumption arsenic a harmless spot of embellishment managed to insult an full country, and alienate 1 of the fewer European leaders who has backed the U.S.  

In the aftermath of Trump's memorandum of knowing with Iran, which has been fiercely criticized by Republicans arsenic good arsenic Democrats for making excessively galore concessions, helium is taking flak from different state arsenic well. 

Israel's apical newspaper, owned by billionaire donor Miriam Adelson, denounced the president.

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The headline: "You could person been the top president of all, but you failed."

Miriam Adelson, widow of billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, has been a protagonist of President Donald Trump. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In Israel Hayom, Danny Zaken wrote that Trump "may beryllium remembered everlastingly arsenic the president who brought astir America’s humiliation."

He added: "You made a colossal mistake. You failed by signing a surrender statement with a murderous and cruel panic regime...

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"We consciousness betrayed, thing less, due to the fact that your bosom was, it seemed, successful the close place, with each your flaws."

Adelson, an Israeli-American doctor, is the widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. Trump awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom successful 2018, and she has donated monolithic sums to pro-Trump groups and campaigns. 

Trump has been furious with Bibi Netanyahu for continuing to equine attacks successful Lebanon, and made definite everyone knew it, with JD Vance joining successful publically scolding Israel. Netanyahu's continued battle connected Iran-backed Hezbollah successful Lebanon prompted the mullahs to cancel Friday's planned statement signing with the vice president successful Switzerland.

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Perhaps the astir dramatic, live-action clash with different overseas person came past twelvemonth erstwhile Trump unloaded connected Volodymyr Zelenskyy, canceled their planned luncheon and booted him retired of the White House. Zelenskyy, who was besides lectured by Vance, didn't assistance things by taking the bait and responding backmost successful prickly fashion.

The president was much resistant aft that to aiding Ukraine successful the warfare against the invading Russians, though his beardown narration with Vladimir Putin was apt a important origin arsenic well. Trump and Zelenskyy person since repaired their relationship, and met astatine the G-7 acme successful France. 

By contrast, charming the president tin besides beryllium effective. When Zohran Mamdani was moving for New York mayor, Trump perpetually attacked him, threatening to withhold national funds and deploy national troops if the Muslim socialist was elected.

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He called Mamdani a "communist lunatic" who hates the constabulary and Jewish people, declaring "we're not going to ruin 1 of our large cities… We volition cleanable up the transgression successful astir 30 days."

New York City mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani attends the 2025 New York City Pride March connected June 29, 2025, successful New York City.  (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

But erstwhile Mamdani came to the White House aft the election, the code was strikingly positive.  

"I met with a antheral who's a precise rational person. I met with a antheral who wants to spot – truly wants to spot – New York beryllium large again," Trump said. "I'll beryllium cheering for him."

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The president added: 

"We hold connected a batch much than I would person thought I privation him to bash a large job, and we'll assistance him bash a large job."

Mamdani, who had antecedently called Trump a "fascist" and "despot," besides praised their conversation.

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 At a 2nd meeting, the politician pitched the president connected a monolithic lodging task successful Queens, wherever Trump grew up and which Mamdani represented arsenic an assemblyman.  

Mamdani gave Trump a fake New York Daily News beforehand leafage that depicted the president arsenic a champion builder who could marque a lasting quality successful New York.

They person since clashed connected respective issues but person softly been texting each other.

For Trump, determination is nary enactment betwixt argumentation and personality. When vowing to usage subject unit if indispensable to prehend Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, helium threatened to enforce a 10% tariff connected goods from Denmark and 7 different European countries opposing the effort. This was partially a effect of the Danish premier curate insisting she would not beryllium blackmailed.

As for the feud betwixt Trump and Giorgia Meloni, some sides escalated their rhetoric implicit the weekend: The president posted: 

"She wouldn’t adjacent fto america usage Italy’s landing strips oregon runways, a large logistical inconvenience, and this contempt the information the U.S. contributes hundreds of Billions of Dollars a twelvemonth to support Italy, and different ‘so-called’ NATO Allies. Now, aft the United States defeated Iran militarily, she wants to beryllium friends again successful bid to get her ‘numbers up.’ No thanks!!!"

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 Meloni called the president’s attacks "senseless," saying: "As for my popularity, being your person has surely not helped it, nor does it beryllium connected my narration with you… I suggest you absorption connected yours."

It’s similar a schoolyard combat successful which some brawlers privation the past word.

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All politics, of course, turns connected relationships to immoderate degree. When a campaigner is seeking an endorsement oregon a lawmaker is courting colleagues connected a bill, a backslapping attack decidedly helps.  

But with Donald Trump, it's the driving unit successful however helium does business, period, and those who choler oregon irritate him rapidly larn determination are antagonistic consequences.