Media Sneers as Trump Meets With European Leader Who Vows to ‘Make the West Great Again’

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Donald Trump was re-elected president in 2024, vowing to resume his struggle to end the hegemony of the leftist political elites and restore the government to the people. Those leftist elites aren’t in Washington alone; they’re also in Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, and most of the other capitals of Europe.

There is, however, a handful of notable exceptions: several European countries have leaders who care as much about their own people as Trump does about Americans, and who are working to end the left’s dominance and restore sane government. One of them, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, came to the White House on Thursday and had a cordial meeting with Trump.

Despite the fact that the U.S. visit of a European leader who declared herself to be entirely in agreement with Trump’s guiding philosophy was a significant event, establishment media coverage was sparse. What there was of it was notable for being even more sneering and condescending than usual.

The Washington Post focused its coverage before the Trump-Meloni meeting on the assumption, which turned out to be false, that Meloni was in Washington to conclude a trade deal with Trump on behalf of the European Union; its Wednesday story on the planned meeting was headlined “Europe pins trade hopes on Italy’s Meloni, its Trump whisperer.” Because, you see, the president of the United States is like an animal who can’t be communicated with in any ordinary way; a person with special talents for communicating with dumb beasts has to be called in. That’s how the left sees Trump.

Meloni herself, however, denied the WaPo’s primary assertion, that the EU had sent her to make a deal with Trump. “I am sure we can make a deal,” she told reporters during her meeting with the president, but added, “I’m here to help on that. I cannot, look, deal in the name of the European Union.”

Much more importantly, Meloni pointed out some key ways in which she and Trump were simpatico: “We both share another fight,” she pointed out, “which is the fight against woke and EDI [DEI] ideology that would like to erase our history.” She even added, “We share lots of things on tackling illegal migration.”

Meloni made clear that the fight against illegal migration was a battle for the very survival of Western civilization. “When I speak about West,” she said, “mainly I don’t speak about a geographical space; I speak about a civilization. And I want to make that civilization stronger.”

This was extremely important, as the globalist socialists who run the European Union have been treating Europe as if it were simply a geographical space for decades now. They have acted as if they either didn’t know or care that European states have native populations and cultures of their own, or even worse, as if they actively wanted to destroy those populations and cultures.

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