Italian PM Meloni Makes the ‘Pilgrimage’ to Mar-A-Lago — The ‘Most Powerful Person in Europe’ Has Dinner With Trump and Future Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Palm Beach

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, chosen by POLITICO the ‘most powerful person in Europe’, was yet another head of state to make the pilgrimage to Palm Beach, Florida, to have dinner with incoming US President Donald J. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Besides the US and Italy being important allies, and Trump and Meloni having a somewhat similar approach to policy in a wide range of subjects, there is also an interesting question of timing.

Meloni’s visit, after all, comes just...