giorgia meloni

the leader i find most successful at calling a spade a spade. by telling donald trump, "me and italy will never beg, being your friend has absolutely done me no good." she gave a fantastic answer to the golden-boy bootlickers too. she also deliberately showed up late to the protocol and avoided shaking hands with erdoğan. a real queen.

(see: #1844)

you can find her sexy, i've got nothing to say about that, but she is not a leader who calls a spade a spade. when trump was elected, even though the entire eu said don't do it, she became the first and only eu head to go running to congratulate trump and pose for photos with him. italy never forgets this. their falling-out wasn't because of any principled politics on meloni's part but because trump is crazy and a misogynist. of course the tops weren't going to let themselves be used, and boy would it have been something if she had. though if it were up to meloni, she'd have let herself be used, by the way. also, everything she said to macron before being elected, she was forced to eat her words on after he was elected.

a female leader who defends her country's rights to the very end, who never bends or bows, and who speaks to despotic, populist leaders like donald trump in the language they deserve.