Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday was taken by surprise after a journalist asked her a question about ants in Rome.
During a presser covering major domestic and international issues, a video journalist asked PM Meloni, “I’d like to ask you a very simple question. I hope a far-reaching one, too…prime minister: do you step on ants? Do you pay attention when you walk?”
He said the question was connected to a folk saying about treading on ants leading to rainfall.
Taken aback from the line of questioning, Meloni laughed nervously.
“Do I walk on ants? Well, if I see them, no, I confess. But I don’t see them all the time. Is that the right answer? I don’t know, what can I say? I’m at a loss, guys,” she said, before moving on to the next question – which was about Musk’s contested political views.
Apart from ants, Meloni used Thursday’s two-hours news conference to refute concerns over Trump’s bid to break with Washington’s traditional European allies as he pursued a Make-America-Great-Again agenda.
Trump alarmed many European nations after he refused to rule out using military or economic action to pursue an acquisition of the Panama Canal and Greenland, and also floated the idea of turning Canada into US’ 51st state.
