"These constant, unprovoked attacks are senseless" and being Trump's friend has "hardly helped" her in the polls, Meloni writes in a post on Instagram.
The counterattack comes after Donald Trump repeated a claim Saturday afternoon that Italy's leader had begged to be photographed with him at the G7 meeting in France earlier this week.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that Meloni "couldn't even let us use some of Italy's runways" for the US attack on Iran.
Italy's foreign minister canceled a planned visit to the United States because of the dispute.
