Italy on Monday criticised US President Donald Trump's latest social media attack on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ahead of this week's NATO summit.
Trump on Sunday published a doctored image on his Truth Social platform showing Meloni looking at him as if adoringly in a post accompanied by the words: "Restraining Order Needed".
"People come and go, but relations must endure," Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told the news channel Sky TG24.
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani also said he was "sure that transatlantic relations go well beyond individual comments".
Meloni did not respond personally.