"We had an excellent friendship until she declined to become involved in the Strait of Hormuz. This ruined my friendship with her, but I still like her. I think she's a good person who made a mistake." US President Donald Trump described his relationship with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the press at the start of his bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the day of the NATO summit in Ankara. Just yesterday, the tycoon posted a photo of the prime minister on the social media site Truth with the comment "Restraining order needed." When asked about the situation in Iran, Trump responded, "They get a lot of oil from the Strait of Hormuz", alluding to his supporters, "we don't get anything. The United States has more oil than anyone else, so we don't need the Strait. We do it because we consider it important. But she wasn't there for us, and I wasn't happy about that". Donald Trump addressed the issue of NATO's relations with other members during his press conference. He stated, "We've invested trillions of dollars in NATO, and why? To protect European countries. And that's fine, but we expected them to help us". He referred to Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, who resigned on June 23, and stated, "The British Prime Minister refused, and he is probably no longer prime minister for that very reason." "Italy refused, as did France, as did Germany. And I repeat, that's fine: it was a test that makes me ask myself, 'Why do we spend trillions of dollars to protect them when they're not there for us?'". Relations with Turkey, in contrast, are "excellent" : "Erdogan is respected worldwide, and Turkey is militarily strong".