{"id":80840,"date":"2025-10-19T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=80840"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:19:56","slug":"trumps-beautiful-woman-meloni-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trumps-beautiful-woman-meloni-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s \u201cbeautiful woman\u201d remark to Meloni sparks backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gaza Peace Summit held in Sharm el-Sheikh brought together world leaders to discuss a ceasefire agreement, but one unexpected moment stole the spotlight. During his speech, U.S. President Donald Trump turned to Italian Prime Minister <a title=\"Giorgia Meloni close to victory in Italy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/giorgia-meloni-close-to-victory-in-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Giorgia Meloni<\/a> and said, \u201cI\u2019m not supposed to say this, but she\u2019s a beautiful woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The comment immediately triggered backlash online, with many social media users calling it \u201cembarrassing,\u201d \u201cinappropriate,\u201d and \u201ccringe-worthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-80842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-meloni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Backlash in Italy: \u201cTrump\u2019s mistress\u201d controversy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The incident sparked heated debate in Italy as well. Maurizio Landini, the head of the country\u2019s largest trade union, CGIL, sharply criticized Meloni during a televised interview, claiming she had \u201cdone nothing for peace\u201d and was \u201cnothing more than Trump\u2019s mistress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Landini\u2019s remarks were widely condemned across Italy\u2019s political spectrum, with critics accusing him of sexism and disrespect toward the nation\u2019s first female prime minister.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Meloni hits back<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni swiftly responded on social media, denouncing Landini\u2019s language:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe left, which has preached respect for women for years, is now insulting one by calling her a \u2018mistress.\u2019 This is blatant hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meloni went further, sharing a screenshot of the dictionary definition of the word \u201cmistress,\u201d which read: \u201ca promiscuous woman; prostitute.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Landini defends himself<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Amid the growing backlash, Landini insisted his remarks were misinterpreted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI clarified immediately that I meant Meloni was riding on Trump\u2019s success \u2014 acting as his courtier, not his mistress. My words were taken out of context,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You Look Great...Quit Smoking: Turkey's Erdogan Advises Italian PM Meloni At Gaza Peace Summit |N18G\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8dL-mxA6I4\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gaza Peace Summit held in Sharm el-Sheikh brought together world leaders to discuss a ceasefire agreement, but one unexpected moment stole the spotlight. During his speech, U.S. President Donald Trump turned to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and said, \u201cI\u2019m not supposed to say this, but she\u2019s a beautiful woman.\u201d The comment immediately triggered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":80841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,17],"tags":[80105,56608,77263,80107,78654,961,80106,80023],"class_list":["post-80840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-america","category-europe","tag-cgil","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza-peace-summit","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-italy","tag-maurizio-landini","tag-women-in-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80844,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80840\/revisions\/80844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}