Trump reveals whether he’ll give the EU another tariffs extension as he fawns over Italy’s Giorgia Meloni: Live updates

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House

President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed confidence they could come to a trade deal to prevent the European Union from being hit with Trump’s 20 percent reciprocal tariff.

Trump and Meloni huddled in the Cabinet Room with top advisers minutes after she arrived at the White House Thursday.

The U.S. president was asked what would happen if there wasn’t a deal made between the U.S. and the European Union after the 90 days was up.

‘Oh there will be a trade deal, 100 percent,’ he replied.

Meloni echoed the sentiment.

‘I’m sure we can make a deal. And I’m here to help on that. I cannot deal in the name of the European Union. My goal will be invite President Trump to pay an official visit to Italy and understand if there’s a possibility when he comes to organize also such a meeting with Europe,’ Meloni said.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni officially invited President Donald Trump to Rome.

She spoke of the future visit sitting alongside Trump Thursday in the Oval Office.

‘So I want to thank President Trump for having accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Rome in the near future,’ Meloni said. ‘And consider the possibility in that occasion to meet also with Europe.’

‘The goal for me is to make the West great again, and I think we can do it together,’ Meloni added.

Earlier, in the Cabinet Room, Meloni had teased that invitation as she suggested that she believed the U.S. and the EU could make a trade deal before Trump’s 90-day deadline.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House

President Donald Trump gave a warm welcome Thursday to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Meloni is the first European leader to visit Trump since he announced 20 percent reciprocal tariffs on the European Union – only to turn around and put those tariffs ona 90-day pause.

There’s a 10 percent tariff currently placed on the EU.

Meloni arrived at 12 p.m. on the dot and was greeted by Trump outside the West Wing.

Trump expressed that he could make a trade deal and pointed to Meloni calling her a ‘great person’ before entering the White House.

Jon Michael Raasch, Political Reporter for DailyMail.com

Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, has lifted the lid on who Trumpworld’s favorite media superstar is.

In a glowing tribute written for Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People of 2025,’ Lara Trump, the former co-chair of the Republican National Committee, wrote that former Fox News host Megyn Kelly is redefining media in the MAGA age.

‘Megyn Kelly is a force,’ Trump wrote, adding that her ‘journalism is unparalleled, and fearless.’

The tributes on the list are typically written by friends with deep histories with those they are profiling.

In the case of Kelly, Lara Trump, who now hosts her own show on Fox News, penned glowing praise for the journalist she has likely known for the past decade since her father-in-law jumped into politics.

Ullyot became infamous, however, as he attempted to defend the Pentagon after a DOD website deleted a page describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military service.

The wife of deported Salvadorian migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia accused her husband of violently beating her multiple times in a 2021 court filing exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.

Abrego Garcia, 29, was deported from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration on March 15 over connections to the violent MS-13 gang.

‘The level of the tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated,’ Powell said at an event in Chicago. ‘The same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth.

‘Tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation. The inflationary effects could also be more persistent,’ he added.

The ECB is expected to cut interest rates for the 7th time, and yet, “Too Late” Jerome Powell of the Fed, who is always TOO LATE AND WRONG, yesterday issued a report which was another, and typical, complete “mess!” Oil prices are down, groceries (even eggs!) are down, and the USA is getting RICH ON TARIFFS. Too Late should have lowered Interest Rates, like the ECB, long ago, but he should certainly lower them now. Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!

The president’s criticism comes after Powell gave a speech critical of him.

‘The level of the tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated,’ Powell said at an event in Chicago on Wednesday. ‘The same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth.

‘Tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation. The inflationary effects could also be more persistent,’ he added.