Meloni's visit to Washington makes her the first European leader to meet the president since he announced tariffs on European imports earlier this month.

It’s no mystery that Donald Trump likes Giorgia Meloni. After meeting the Italian far-right Prime Minister for the first time in Paris late last year, he described her as a “real live wire,” with whom he could “work to straighten out the world a little bit.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was in Washington D.C. Thursday to meet with President Donald Trump to talk about the tariffs he levied on the European Union.