Giovanbattista Fazzolari, a senior Italian official, also criticised Trump’s comments, describing them as “inappropriate”. “It’s unclear whether by design or incompetence, he is ruining the historic relations between the United States and Europe,” Fazzolari said. “With his inappropriate outbursts, he has succeeded in the not-easy task of making the US loathed across the entire European continent, damaging not only Europe but above all the United States.”
