President Trump claimed Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni begged him for a photo at the G7 summit.
Meloni says Trump completely fabricated the story. The president has a long history of making false or highly dubious claims about people supposedly begging him for things.
Multiple past Trump stories about people supposedly begging him have been debunked with documentary evidence.
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After an Italian media outlet reported that President Donald Trump said Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had “begged” him for a photo at the G7 summit this week, Meloni quickly posted a response on social media. Trump, she said, had “completely fabricated” the story, and she was “shocked.”
