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Donald Trump has had a falling out with the Italian prime minister. 

In fact, as you may have heard, the entire country is angry with the president. 

Giorgia Meloni hit back hard, accusing Trump of fabricating a story about her. 

Trump had said: "She begged me to take a picture with her. She wanted a picture with me so ​badly. I wouldn’t have taken it, but I felt sorry for her."

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"Donald Trump’s statements are completely made up," said the prime minister, who has been an ally. "I am frankly astonished. I don’t ‌know why ⁠the president of the United States behaves like this towards his allies: it is not the first time, moreover...

"There is one thing he should remember: Neither I nor Italy ever beg."

The flap, which prompted Italy's foreign minister to cancel a planned U.S. visit, underscores how Trump's policies, here and abroad, are driven by personal relationships.

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 What we might view as a harmless bit of embellishment managed to insult an entire country, and alienate one of the few European leaders who has backed the U.S.  

In the wake of Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran, which has been fiercely criticized by Republicans as well as Democrats for making too many concessions, he is taking flak from another ally as well. 

Israel's top newspaper, owned by billionaire donor Miriam Adelson, denounced the president.

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The headline: "You could have been the greatest president of all, but you failed."

In Israel Hayom, Danny Zaken wrote that Trump "may be remembered forever as the president who brought about America’s humiliation."

He added: "You made a colossal mistake. You failed by signing a surrender agreement with a murderous and cruel terror regime...

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"We feel betrayed, nothing less, because your heart was, it seemed, in the right place, with all your flaws."

Adelson, an Israeli-American doctor, is the widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. Trump awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018, and she has donated massive sums to pro-Trump groups and campaigns. 

Trump has been furious with Bibi Netanyahu for continuing to mount attacks in Lebanon, and made sure everyone knew it, with JD Vance joining in publicly scolding Israel. Netanyahu's continued assault on Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon prompted the mullahs to cancel Friday's planned agreement signing with the vice president in Switzerland.

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Perhaps the most dramatic, live-action clash with another foreign leader came last year when Trump unloaded on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, canceled their planned lunch and booted him out of the White House. Zelenskyy, who was also lectured by Vance, didn't help things by taking the bait and responding back in prickly fashion.

The president was more resistant after that to aiding Ukraine in the war against the invading Russians, though his strong relationship with Vladimir Putin was likely a significant factor as well. Trump and Zelenskyy have since repaired their relationship, and met at the G-7 summit in France. 

By contrast, charming the president can also be effective. When Zohran Mamdani was running for New York mayor, Trump constantly attacked him, threatening to withhold federal funds and deploy federal troops if the Muslim socialist was elected.

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He called Mamdani a "communist lunatic" who hates the police and Jewish people, declaring "we're not going to ruin one of our great cities… We will clean up the crime in about 30 days."

But when Mamdani came to the White House after the election, the tone was strikingly positive.  

"I met with a man who's a very rational person. I met with a man who wants to see – really wants to see – New York be great again," Trump said. "I'll be cheering for him."

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The president added: 

"We agree on a lot more than I would have thought I want him to do a great job, and we'll help him do a great job."

Mamdani, who had previously called Trump a "fascist" and "despot," also praised their conversation.

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 At a second meeting, the mayor pitched the president on a massive housing project in Queens, where Trump grew up and which Mamdani represented as an assemblyman.  

Mamdani gave Trump a fake New York Daily News front page that depicted the president as a champion builder who could make a lasting difference in New York.

They have since clashed on several issues but have quietly been texting each other.

For Trump, there is no line between policy and personality. When vowing to use military force if necessary to seize Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, he threatened to impose a 10% tariff on goods from Denmark and seven other European countries opposing the effort. This was partly a result of the Danish prime minister insisting she would not be blackmailed.

As for the feud between Trump and Giorgia Meloni, both sides escalated their rhetoric over the weekend: The president posted: 

"She wouldn’t even let us use Italy’s landing strips or runways, a great logistical inconvenience, and this despite the fact the U.S. contributes hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year to protect Italy, and other ‘so-called’ NATO Allies. Now, after the United States defeated Iran militarily, she wants to be friends again in order to get her ‘numbers up.’ No thanks!!!"

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 Meloni called the president’s attacks "senseless," saying: "As for my popularity, being your friend has certainly not helped it, nor does it depend on my relationship with you… I suggest you focus on yours."

It’s like a schoolyard fight in which both brawlers want the last word.

All politics, of course, turns on relationships to some degree. When a candidate is seeking an endorsement or a lawmaker is courting colleagues on a bill, a backslapping approach definitely helps.  

But with Donald Trump, it's the driving force in how he does business, period, and those who anger or irritate him quickly learn there are negative consequences.  

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Vice President JD Vance landed in Switzerland early Sunday to help launch a new round of negotiations with Iran, as the Trump administration pushes for a lasting agreement following a recently signed ceasefire.

Vance arrived shortly before 6 a.m. local time and is expected to join White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, for the talks.

Swiss officials confirmed Saturday that the Iranian delegation had arrived and was traveling to Bürgenstock, where the discussions are expected to take place.

The talks were initially scheduled for Friday, but Switzerland's foreign ministry announced that planned negotiations involving the U.S., Iran, Qatar and Pakistan had been postponed.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is also expected to participate in the talks, according to Axios.

The negotiations come days after Trump signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran following the G7 summit at the Palace of Versailles. The agreement established a 60-day ceasefire and outlined a framework for broader negotiations between the two countries aimed at ending the conflict.

In a Truth Social post Saturday, Trump warned that the United States could impose tolls in the Strait of Hormuz if negotiations fail to produce a lasting agreement before the ceasefire expires.

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Before departing from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Vance said a successful trip would involve establishing the framework for future negotiations.

"I think number one, just getting things set up in the right way and getting the actual structure of the negotiations in place," he said.

"The way that we're going to do this, we're going to have a principal level of political leadership at the top," he continued. "And then obviously the technical team is going to stay on the ground."

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Vance said he expected to remain in Switzerland for a day or two.

The vice president also previewed some of the issues expected to be discussed during the negotiations.

"I think we're hopefully making progress on the nuclear issue, make progress on the Lebanon ceasefire issue," he said.

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"Those are the two big things that I think we're going to be focused on," he continued. "I'm sure the Iranians are going to have issues they'd like to discuss as well."

Vance said conditions in Lebanon had improved despite renewed clashes between Israel and Hezbollah.

"Despite the headlines, things are actually getting better there," he said, while acknowledging that sporadic violence remains a challenge in the region.

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The vice president said the goal is to prevent further escalation and preserve the ceasefire.

"The big problem is that somebody will shoot and then somebody will respond," Vance said. "You've just got to stop the shooting for long enough to get the ceasefire to hold."

Pakistan also announced that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Army Chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir would participate in technical-level discussions in Switzerland.

Fox News Digital's Brittany Miller contributed to this report.

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Vice President JD Vance is pulling back the curtain back on President Donald Trump’s strict rules for Cabinet members, specifically the traditional dress code.

Speaking on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast, Vance explained that Trump’s classic style rules — including a disdain for brown shoes — are rooted in the belief that public officials must honor the institutions they serve.

"The president has a certain sense that you ought to respect the place, you ought to respect the institution, respect the office. And one of the ways you do that is by dressing like a normal person," Vance said in the episode released Thursday. "And I think that's — it’s a very old-fashioned thing."

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According to Vance, the president expects his team to always project professionalism, drawing a contrast with the style of many modern-day politicians. He laid out some of the rules, telling Hannity that Trump almost always wears a navy suit, black shoes and a solid tie.

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"Well, I mean, he always has — it's always a navy suit. It's almost always a solid tie. It's always black shoes," Vance said. "Like, he'll bust the chops of some of the Cabinet members if they've got brown shoes on."

Earlier this year, Trump confirmed that he sometimes buys his officials new shoes during an interview on "The Brian Kilmeade Show."

"When they tell me they have a problem, I say, ‘Let me get you a pair of shoes,'" Trump told Kilmeade in March.

Vance noted he’s seen the president comment on the attire of other officials and even his own family members, including the "Zelensky moment." During a meeting in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy was asked by a correspondent why he chose not to wear a suit.

At a follow-up White House meeting in August, Zelenskyy wore more formal attire than his usual military-style clothing. During that exchange, a reporter told Zelenskyy he looked "fabulous in that suit," before Trump added, "I said the same thing."

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"That was not a good moment for him," Vance said of Zelenskyy, referring to the tense exchange between the Ukrainian president and U.S. officials. "And it's funny because things kind of worked out. I think, you know, we were able to repair that relationship."

He also recalled a time when Trump commented on his son Don Jr.’s attire at a 9/11 memorial during the 2024 campaign.

"They're reading out the names. But there's — at one point, the president turns around and looks at Don Jr. And Don has like, a spread collar on. And the president's like, ‘Oh, that's a pretty wide collar there, Don,’" Vance said.

"And you can tell, like, it just was absolutely a dig. So I've always — navy suit, black shoes and a conventional collar," he added.

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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are split on President Donald Trump’s Iran peace deal, with some concerned the deal entails little enforcement, with some praising it as progress toward preventing a nuclear-armed Iran while others warned it could provide Tehran with billions of dollars and insufficient safeguards.

Sen. Thomas Tuberville, R-Ala., told Fox News Digital he believes the deal shows progress from the beginning of the war, particularly in disbarring Iran’s nuclear program.

"They never can have nuclear weapons and we don't have troops on the ground and we made a lot of progress," Tuberville said.

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But many are skeptical on whether the deal is harsh enough in substantially ensuring Iran’s nuclear program will be destroyed throughout the 60-day negotiation period. It postpones nuclear conversations and lacks the authority to completely prohibit Iran from refusing compliance with the framework of the deal.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., shared that exact concern with Fox News Digital, as well as the potential for the $300 billion toward economic reconstruction included in the deal to be used to fund terrorist groups.

"I am deeply concerned that we are giving Iran the benefit of hundreds of billions of dollars that can be spent on Hezbollah and other maligned proxies, as well as rebuilding its nuclear program," Blumenthal said. "And the lack of any inspection or verification."

He continued, "I am deeply concerned that this deal looks like unconditional surrender for the United States, not for Iran."

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The deal that was signed on Thursday would also provide immediate sanctions relief and access to frozen Iranian funds. 

Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., said he believes the framework of the deal could position the U.S. to be successful — on the condition that negotiations with Iran are properly enforced. 

"From the beginning I said the key is going to be enforcement," Hoeven said. "So as we go through this negotiation, the key is going to be how do we enforce it?"

He called on American allies to take responsibility in helping with enforcement throughout the 60-day period.

"I think some of our allies need to step up and join us," Hoeven said.

"They have a big dog in this fight so they need to join with us because that enforcement mechanism is going be key, I believe, to getting the kind of outcome that we want," he said.

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Many senators claimed they had not read through the memorandum of understanding (MOU), declining to comment at all about their opinion on the deal.

"I'm going to disappoint you," Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said. "I'm about a half way through reading the actual MOU and I want to read it several times to try to digest it."

Many Democrats are arguing that the current deal seems worse and less effective than the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Trump withdrew this 2015 nuclear deal during his first term.

"I think it looks worse than the Obama deal right now," Blumenthal said. "More money goes to Iran, lifting of sanctions, no verification."

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For decades, so-called top academic schools dominated the cultural conversation about higher education. But inflation and a tough economy have devastated many families’ savings, making affording four-year schools difficult, on top of the AI monster that seems to be eating white-collar jobs alive. 

This perfect storm has crushed trust in "elite" schools. But what’s bad news for Harvard and Yale is a fantastic opportunity for community colleges and certification programs across the country to position themselves as the best solution to young Americans’ financial and career concerns. 

Elite schools still command prestige, of course. They boast extensive professional networks and deep pockets that can drastically lower six-figure annual prices, and many government and private loans promise college access in exchange for higher incomes as one’s career progresses.

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Here’s what education leaders and communicators told me that higher education institutions of all types can do to make their value crystal-clear to students and parents.

Comms needs a strong foundation for success

The first thing all higher ed institutions need to do is prove concrete value to prospective students and their parents. The easiest way to do this is to build relationships with high schools that influence student decisions. 

Indianapolis Public Schools Spokesman Marc Ransford told me that he’s had the "privilege of telling a story of real transformation" built on a $410 million "strategic redesign" of the entire school district.

"Rebuilding Stronger created infrastructure improvements from elementary school to graduation," said Ransford. "And it worked. Nearly two-thirds of our recent graduates pursue college or a trade program, and students earn 9,000 dual-credit hours annually that create real savings for them." 

Ransford also pointed to partnerships that make sure intent matches outcomes: "Any student with a 3.0 GPA" is automatically enrolled at IU Indianapolis, plus "internships and apprenticeships at Eli Lilly and IU Health," that "create seamless pathways from our classrooms into careers." Erin Parkhurst is former Vice President of Strategic Communications at Benedictine Schools of Richmond. She said the two single-sex Catholic high schools under its umbrella communicate to all stakeholders — parents, students, faculty and higher education institutions — that student needs come first. 

"A systematic, individualized approach to college counseling makes the difference for students and families," she said. "Starting in 9th grade, students explore their academic and career interests to find the right fit. This means that every student and their family makes decisions with a clear understanding of financial commitments and career opportunities."

Higher education institutions have to demonstrate concrete value customized to each student’s needs and goals, said Parkhurst. "With a 100% acceptance rate among the students applying to college, graduates can be selective" — which means colleges and universities are fighting to stand out to students. 

Remember that the comms strategy is downstream from the raw material. Without data proving that Indianapolis’ students are seeing more opportunity, Ransford couldn’t prove anything to stakeholders across the city and Indiana. Likewise, institutions that build partnerships with high schools like those Parkhurst previously worked at will have a far easier path to reach stakeholders. 

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Most students can’t attend the big school and coast into a job on "connections." We  make it on solid skills, which is why blue-collar jobs are having a rebound. AI can take white-collar jobs built on debt-filled education; it won’t take roofing, electrician, and plumber jobs anytime soon. 

But there are other AI threats, like the program Antonio Delgado, Vice President of Innovation and Technology Partnerships, oversees at Miami Dade College. The school has over 100,000 students, many of whom are there  to learn AI skills that can keep them in the modern workforce. 

"Most companies can’t afford AI engineers who have Master’s/Ph.D.s.," said Delgado. "They need someone with a middle level of AI skills. We developed this applied AI program before ChatGPT came on the market, so we had the right program at the right time. We are filling the gap by acting as an affordable, accessible workforce asset that is set up in a way that many four-year and other higher-level education programs are not."

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TVP Communications Vice President Kristine Maloney said the AI threat to white-collar jobs is overstated. However, this leads to the third AI challenge: changing public perception. "Many families and students are particularly concerned about AI replacing entry-level jobs for new graduates. The reality is a lot more nuanced and in many cases, it’s not true at all." Maloney urged four-year schools to "do a better job correcting the record on the ROI they provide to their alumni. And the time to fight for their reputation and enrollment is now. The longer headlines about AI killing entry-level jobs go unanswered, the more ingrained this thinking becomes."

Communicating customization

Think Big Managing Director Aaron Walker is a crisis expert who has helped a lot of higher education institutions recover from self-inflicted damage. He says the entire industry ignored the growing affordability issue.

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"Students and families are waking up to a painful reality: Tuition costs have skyrocketed while job placement guarantees remain nonexistent. Unlike most industries, higher education has largely escaped accountability for its core promise. That’s changing, and institutions that don’t get ahead of this will find themselves in a trust crisis they’re not equipped to manage."

That’s why my alma mater is dialing into a single distinct message: "specific, applicable skills and experience" to be "career-ready upon graduation," said Plymouth State University Director of Development and Alumni Relations Rodney Ekstrom. No boiling the ocean here, because PSU isn’t just competing against New Hampshire schools. It’s also competing against students not going to school at all.

Can you reach an audience that finds you — and only you — as the solution to a financially successful launch into a validating career that will last? That’s the communications challenge facing four-year schools, and the opportunity facing institutions that have historically been demeaned.

If not, both have a rough road ahead.

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The Senate Banking Committee convened a hearing June 11 around a question that cuts to the core of American competitiveness and the American Dream: Can the United States ensure that rapid advances in artificial intelligence support "innovation, affordability, and American dominance?"

Those three goals are inseparable, and they all hinge on a single variable: ensuring that the world’s most advanced chips stay in American hands and out of China’s. President Ronald Reagan understood this logic during the Cold War, when his administration moved aggressively to deny the Soviet Union access to cutting-edge Western technology — not because the Soviets lacked talent, but because denying them the tools was itself a strategic weapon.

The same principle applies today. Indiana Republican Sen. Jim Banks and Florida Republican Rep. Brian Mast understand the stakes. The "AI Overwatch Act" they are advancing in the House and Senate is the right answer.

China already has world-class AI talent fielding competitive models. However, it lacks reliable access to the highest-end chips, a gap that keeps Beijing behind. The AI Overwatch Act codifies the prohibition on exporting our most advanced chips to China — making permanent a policy the Trump administration has enforced and that must outlast any single administration.

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It would create a simple test, ensuring sales will not strengthen an adversary’s military, intelligence, surveillance or cyber capabilities and would not erode our technological lead. Importantly, it would also fast-track trusted exports to allies and partners, so that we could export the full American AI stack to friends who gain access to top-tier capability, while ownership and oversight would stay with the United States.

The measures are not just common sense — they are the precondition for every goal the Senate Banking Committee named.

Export controls on chips are vital but not sufficient given the scale of China’s effort to overtake the United States. China’s parallel path to closing the gap is building advanced chips domestically, which is why Sens. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., and Andy Kim, D-N.J., introduced the bipartisan and bicameral "Match Act."

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The bill bars the sale and servicing of the most essential chipmaking tools to facilities in China, locks restrictions on Huawei, SMIC and other Chinese Communist Party-linked chipmakers into law and presses our allies to align their own export controls so that American toolmakers aren’t simply undercut by foreign competitors selling Beijing the same equipment. Together, the Overwatch and Match Acts close both doors: China can neither buy our best chips nor buy the tools to make them. 

Start with innovation. In April, the White House accused China of running industrial-scale campaigns to copy American frontier models, using tens of thousands of fraudulent accounts and jailbreaking techniques to siphon proprietary capabilities and release cheaper knockoffs stripped of the safeguards our companies build in.

Beijing is already pilfering our AI advantage because it cannot yet train frontier models at scale without our hardware. To hand Beijing our hardware advantage on top of that would be unilateral disarmament, allowing state-subsidized Chinese firms to match American products at a lower price and box our companies out of global markets just like they have done in solar, steel and electric vehicles. You do not protect an innovation lead by selling your rival the engine — or the factory that builds it.

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Then there is affordability. The dividend of AI leadership is supposed to land here at home, in new industries, good jobs and the broad prosperity that makes the American Dream attainable. That dividend disappears the moment we hand Beijing the tools to undercut us.

I have spoken with executives across multiple sectors who understand that the AI supply chain and compute infrastructure — chips, fabs, data centers and the energy to run them — have become the new industrial base. America’s technology advantage is the engine of that prosperity. Losing it is not an abstraction — it is lost jobs, lost leverage and a dimmer American Dream.

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And there is dominance. The country that leads in the most capable models, the chips that train them, and the energy to run them will set global standards and decide whose values are embedded in the defining technology of this century. That is the line between AI that serves a free people and AI that powers a surveillance state.

President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan names the stakes plainly, calling it imperative that America and its allies win this race, and the current administration has held the line by keeping our most capable chips out of China and tightening enforcement against those who try to route them there anyway.

There is no doubt China recognizes that compute power is the bottleneck in this race. In March, federal prosecutors in New York charged three people tied to the server maker Super Micro, including a co-founder, with diverting roughly $2.5 billion in Nvidia-powered servers to China through a front company in Southeast Asia, using falsified paperwork and dummy units to fool both internal compliance teams and federal inspectors. The Super Micro prosecution is only the most recent proof that Beijing will not stop trying.

China is running a long game — economic, cyber and intelligence operations aimed at closing the gap we have spent decades building. The United States must run a longer one. America’s chip advantage is not just a technology story; it is the foundation of the American Dream — the engine of the industries, the jobs and the national power that make self-governance worth defending. By passing the Overwatch and Match Acts, Congress can turn a fragile policy advantage into durable American law.

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