WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Thursday that something should ​be done to stop mail-in voting in Utah ahead of the state’s primaries next week. “It seems as though the Great State of Utah, ‌which I won each time, and handily, is going to the All Mail In Ballot format ⁠of Colorado, and the rest, that ​always head LEFT, as soon as ⁠the move is made,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He added, “We should stop ‌Utah from doing this.” Utah ‌and Colorado are among fewer than a dozen U.S. states that ⁠allow all elections to be conducted entirely ⁠by mail, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

The Republican president said, without evidence, that mail-in ballots would provide Democrats an opportunity to cheat. Utah’s Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican who oversees elections in the state, said more than 90% of voters in the state choose to ‌vote by mail, which she describes as secure. “Since ​implementing vote by mail, Utah has gone from having one of the lowest voter participation rates in the country to one of the highest,” Henderson said. “As Utah has demonstrated, HOW you vote doesn’t change who you vote for, it simply makes you a better voter.”

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni Says She’s ‘Frankly Astonished’ by Trump’s ‘Made Up’ Story That She ‘Begged’ for Photo with Him

“Neither I nor Italy ever beg,” Meloni said in a video shared on social media

Giorgia Meloni has fired back at Donald Trump’s claim that she “begged” him for a photo at the G7 Summit.

On Friday, June 19, the Italian Prime Minister denounced the United States president’s claim that she’d urged him to take a photo with her during this week’s G7 Summit as “completely fabricated.” In a video shared to X, Meloni conveyed both her and Italy’s offense to Trump’s claims.

“I am frankly stunned,” she said in Italian. “I don’t know why the president of the United States behaves this way toward his own allies. After all, this isn’t the first time this has happened.”

“I can only say it is regrettable that he does not show the same determination against the enemies of the West and the United States—against leaderships with whom he actually proves to be much more accommodating,” she continued.

“There is one thing he must remember,” Meloni concluded. “Neither I nor Italy ever beg.”

The Italian Prime Minister’s rebuke comes after Trump told Italian broadcaster La7 that Meloni “begged me to take a photo with her — I could have skipped it, but I felt sorry for her,” NBC News reported. He added, “She’s probably happy I talked to her. I didn’t have to talk to her.”

Meloni wasn’t the only Italian politician apparently offended by Trump’s comments. Just before the prime minister posted the video on social media, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani shared on X that he was canceling his planned trip to the U.S. this weekend.

In the statement, Tajani noted that the U.S. president had angered Italy as a whole.

“President Trump’s serious and offensive remarks about Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni offend all of Italy,” Tajani wrote. “For this reason, I have decided to cancel my visit to the United States scheduled for June 21st and 22nd.”

There’s a history of friction between Trump and Meloni, especially in recent years. Earlier in April, Meloni defended Pope Leo XIV’s anti-war comments after Trump verbally attacked the religious figure, and called the U.S. president’s statements “unacceptable.” Trump responded of Meloni, “It’s her who’s unacceptable,” because she wouldn’t support the U.S. war in Iran.

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However, in October 2025, while speaking at the Gaza summit in Egypt, Trump went on an awkward tangent about Meloni’s appearance, repeatedly calling her “beautiful.”

“Where is she … there she is,” Trump said, looking at Meloni. “You don’t mind being called beautiful, right? You are.”