Joseph Strummered

[Antonio Tajani @Antonio_Tajani]

Le gravi e offensive parole del Presidente Trump nei confronti del Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni offendono tutta l’Italia. Per questo motivo ho deciso di annullare la mia visita negli Stati Uniti prevista per i prossimi 21 e 22 giugno.

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Io e l’Italia non imploriamo mai.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.

The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

News you can use from the opinion editors of the Italian right-wing daily Libero:

"TRUMP IS AN ASSHOLE"

https://t.co/IT4UKdtOdH

[PuNk and Stuff @PunKandStuff]

Remember

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Macron: Trump arrived thinking Ukraine would lose and wanted a quick deal. At the Anchorage summit, he nearly handed over territory Ukraine still controls on the ground.

Then three things fundamentally changed his calculus and the shift has been decisive for the war. 1/

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Browder: If Putin ends this war, the Russian people will say, why did you get us into this mess? What have we accomplished? What have we lost?

They would remove him from power. And if he is removed from power, he ends up dying. Jailed, money taken, hung from a lamp post. 1/

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

“They begged to have a picture with me.”

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Zelensky tells the Belarusian dictator that he has one week to remove the missile guidance systems that he allows Russia to use for targeting Ukrainian cities or "we will remove them ourselves".

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here are Italian PM Meloni's remarks about Trump, translated to English:

"So certain things deserve an immediate response. Donald Trump's statements are completely made up. I am frankly stunned.

I don't know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies. It's not the first time this has happened. After all, I can only say it's a shame he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaders with whom instead he proves to be much more accommodating.

But he must remember one thing: Italy and I never beg. "

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Trump: "G7 used to be G8. They should have kept the G8. You probably wouldn't have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did."

FACT CHECK: Russia was excluded from the G8 in March 2014 as a direct response to its illegal invasion and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.

[Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet]

Amazing it takes the Polish foreign minister on @BBCr4today to point out the gravity of a Russian sponsored firebomb attack on the PM’s home.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

3 seismic by-elections where the Reform threat was all we heard about.

Caerphilly, Gorton & Denton, Makerfield.

3 times it wasn’t even close. Decent people moved together to the best anti-Reform option & humiliated Farage.

When will our public debate reflect our anti-racist majority?

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

There’s no doubt that Putin fears the return of his army home. That is why he is so afraid of the war ending without victory. And there will be no victory. He is physically afraid of his own army. That is why, if there is no ceasefire backed by specific security guarantees, he will return to war. And this time, others may be the ones under attack.

Today, Ukraine is de facto the second army of NATO – one that is not inferior to the second army in the world. And that is why NATO needs us – specifically us – de jure. This is already a fact recognized by all leaders. Putin will remain in the Kremlin until his death, and he has one goal: the restoration of the Soviet Union. Without Ukraine, this is impossible, and that is why things are so difficult for us.

From answers to journalists’ questions. (3/3)

[Euan MacDonald @Euan_MacDonald]

French President Emmanuel Macron pulls off what could be the greatest diplomatic troll of all time by getting Trump to sign the "$300 Billion US Surrender to Iran" deal in... Versailles. The ignoramus Trump will have been clueless as to the historical significance of the location

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: Michel Barnier said Britain could regain its special terms if it rejoined EU and claimed it was becoming clearer every day to the British people that they would be stronger in Europe.

EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator said he could not see any obstacle to UK keeping the pound and remaining outside passport-free Schengen travel area should it rejoin.

Interview by @danielboffey

https://t.co/IclORZkeCU

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

True

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Oh look. Farage has been lobbying the Bank of England to stop it regulating against the guy who gave him that dodgy £5 million "no-strings attached gift." Of course he has - populists with their snouts in the trough, eh ?

Of course the media will be all over this ...

Not.

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

If you'd consumed any news about the Makerfield by-election, you'd have been given the impression it was close.

It was not.

If you add Reform, Restore and Tory votes together, Labour still beat them by 5,000 votes.

Labour: 24,937
Reform UK: 15,696
Restore: 3,111
Conservative: 997
Green: 308
Lib Dem: 163

[Warren @swd2]

Looking through the Iran deal for the parts where we get something..