Argentine's Milei, Italy's Meloni meet as Trump tries to ride populist wave back to power

Argentina’s Javier Milei has been called the South American Donald Trump and Italian Giorgia Meloni the female version of the former GOP president. Like Trump, both leaders cast themselves as disruptors who have been critical of their country’s political establishment. 

But when they met last week in Rome, the world stage seemed big enough for both.

Not that there weren’t a few colorful and non-scripted moments.

At one point, amid the pomp and circumstance of an official state visit, Milei and Meloni held each other’s hands and touched foreheads in a scene that wouldn’t be out of place in a middle-age romcom.