President-elect Donald Trump met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
Trump attended a screening of a documentary about the legal challenges that some conservative lawyers claim to face.
He went into the grand ballroom around 7 p.m. and returned about two hours later after dinner.
“This is very exciting,” Trump told the Meloni audience.
“I’m here with a fantastic woman, the prime minister of Italy,” said the president. “She’s really taken Europe by storm, and everyone else, and we’re just having dinner tonight.”
Other notable attendees at the documentary screening included his choice for Secretary of State, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, national security adviser, Florida Republican Rep. Mike Waltz, and Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent.
Meloni’s visit to Trump’s resort follows other world leaders’ meetings with the president-elect in Florida.
Argentina’s President Javier Milei was the first world leader to meet with Trump at Mar-a-Lago following his November election victory, followed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who both traveled to Florida to meet with Trump.
President Biden plans to travel to Rome later this week to meet with Meloni and then Pope Francis. The White House stated that Biden’s meeting with Meloni will “highlight the strength of the U.S.-Italy relationship” and that the president will thank the prime minister for “her strong leadership of the G7 over the past year.”