Donald Trump and Elon Musk will be very expensive for Giorgia Meloni – The huge risk has already started to backfire

Donald Trump’s Greenland requirements and Tesla-billionaire Elon Musk became the main topics when the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni answered reporters’ questions at his traditional press conference on Thursday.

Meloni has quickly profiled himself as Trump’s strongest EU ally, who also likes to boast of his good relations with Musk. In this way, he is trying to increase his influence within the EU, but the plan now threatens to fail miserably.

The prime minister of the third largest EU country takes a megalomaniac political risk. The first proof of this was just on Thursday, when Meloni fell into a serious political miscalculation while defending his American friends.

If the Italian Prime Minister is to be believed, Donald Trump only wanted to send a message to China with his defiant comments about Greenland. On the other hand, according to Melon, Elon Musk is in the middle of an uproar simply because he does not represent the left.

Meloni has confused the pack dangerously in other ways as well. Under an epiphany, he secretly flew to meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Not even his close circle knew about the Italian Prime Minister’s trip, not to mention the country’s government or foreign minister.

The actual storm broke when the American media reported after the trip that Italy plans to buy Starlink connections from Elon Musk for 1.5 billion euros. At the same time, it turned out that it was Musk who arranged the meeting at Mar-a-Lago, even though Trump had already refused.

Trump and Musk fit perfectly into Meloni’s plan, with which he tries with all his might to increase his influence in the EU. The Italian Prime Minister hopes to be able to appear in public as a Trump whisperer, who will patch up the EU’s differences with the future US president and possibly even get him to cancel his customs plan.

The tactic has already started to backfire. The Italian president and Meloni’s government partners are on the back foot, and the leaders of other major EU countries do not see soloing as a good thing. The head of Italy’s intelligence service also resigned in protest at Meloni’s actions.

Director of research at ISPI, the Italian foreign policy institute Antonio Villafranca believes that a broad EU backlash will come at the latest when Donald Trump carries out his tariff threat and intervenes in the defense budgets of NATO countries. At last then the EU has to do something.

For Giorgia Meloni, it means the final loss of trust in the EU. Even before that, there is a lot of turbulence in the home country.