President Donald Trump made issues bizarre with Italy’s prime politician throughout a peace summit in Egypt on Monday.
Although the president was there to signal a freshly-brokered deal to finish the warfare in Gaza, he couldn’t assist however veer into shallow territory as he addressed one of many few feminine leaders within the room: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Whereas Meloni stood behind him subsequent to the U.Okay.’s Keir Starmer and Canada’s Mark Carney, Trump stated, “We have a woman, a young woman, who’s uh… I’m not allowed to say it because usually it’s the end of your political career if you say it. She’s a beautiful young woman.”
“Now, if you use the word ‘beautiful’ in the United States about a woman, that’s the end of your political career,” he complained. “But I’ll take my chances.”
Trump then rotated to Meloni and requested, “You don’t mind being called beautiful, right? Because you are.”
The cringey praise wasn’t Trump’s solely unusual second on the summit.
Throughout a photograph op with France’s Emmanuel Macron, he locked the prime minister in an intense 27-second-long handshake.
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Afterward, a scorching mic caught Prime Minister Carney jokingly thanking Trump for giving him the “upgraded” title of “president” throughout his remarks.
“At least I didn’t say governor,” Trump grinned, winking on the nickname he gave Carney’s predecessor, Justin Trudeau, again when he was threatening to make Canada the 51st state.
Catch video of Trump’s left-field remark to Meloni above.
