Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani has called off a visit to the United States on Monday due to president Donald Trump's 'serious and offensive' remarks about premier Giorgia Meloni after this week's G7 summit in France, the minister has announced.

Trump reportedly claimed that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni “begged” for a photo with him at France’s G7 summit this week.

"Italy and I do not beg," Meloni said in a video rebuke posted on social media Friday. Italy's top diplomat, meanwhile, said he was cancelling a visit to the U.S because of the…