PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect made an appearance Saturday with Italian Prime Minister , who was visiting his Mar-a-Lago club.
Meloni follows Argentina President , who became at Mar-a-Lago after his Election Day victory in November. Canadian Prime Minister and Prime Minister of Hungry also traveled to Florida to meet with the president-elect.
Trump appeared at a screening of a documentary detailing challenges some conservative lawyers report facing in the legal system. He entered the grand ballroom around 7 p.m. and then returned around two hours later after having dinner.
Trump told the crowd of Meloni: “This is very exciting.”
“I’m here with a fantastic woman, the prime minister of Italy. She’s really taken Europe by storm, and everyone else, and we’re just having dinner tonight,” Trump said.
The president-elect watched a screening of the documentary with Meloni and with his pick for the incoming administration’s secretary of state, Florida Sen. , as well as Florida Rep. and his choice to head the Treasury Department, .
Meloni’s visit comes after Italian journalist Cecilia Sala by Iranian police while reporting in Tehran late last month.
Sala’s case has between Italy and Iran, which is demanding Italian authorities release an Iranian businessman who was arrested recently in Milan on a U.S. warrant in connection with a drone attack in Jordan last year that killed three American troops.
Meanwhile, President is set to , beginning Thursday. The White House says the Meloni meeting will “highlight the strength of the U.S.-Italy relationship” and feature Biden thanking the prime minister “for her strong leadership of the G7 over the past year.”
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