WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump insisted on Saturday that Italian Prime Minister Meloni requested “over and over” for a photo with him at a G7 meeting earlier this week, further inflaming an extraordinary diplomatic dust up between the two allies.

BREAKING: Trump attacks Italy's Meloni again:

Italian Prime Minister Gigiorgia Meloni asked, over and over, for a picture with me during the G-7 meeting in France.

She is doing poorly in Italy with her level of popularity, possibly because she turned down the United States of… pic.twitter.com/9JDN3scCXi

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