Gli utenti dei social media e diversi commentatori hanno attribuito un'importanza fuorviante al fatto che i capi di Stato e di governo europei sono stati esclusi dalla lista degli invitati di Trump. Ma dal 1874 non risulta la partecipazione all'evento di nessun leader europeo: Meloni sarà la prima
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00:00Have European leaders been snubbed in Trump's inauguration?
00:08Social media users have misleadingly attached importance to the fact that some European leaders
00:14have been excluded from the guest list for Trump's inauguration as US president.
00:19World leaders including Italy's Giorgia Meloni, China's Xi Jinping, El Salvador's Nayib Bukele
00:26and Argentina's Javier Milley were invited to the ceremony.
00:29European far-right figures such as France's Eric Seymour and the UK's Nigel Farage were also on the guest list.
00:36But this is a break with tradition.
00:38Inauguration Day is considered an event for Americans and foreign leaders are not usually invited.
00:45Countries are rather represented by ambassadors or other diplomatic envoys.
00:49We checked US Department of State records and found no evidence that any European leader
00:56had attended a presidential inauguration in the US since records began in 1874.
01:02Yet social media users and commentators have suggested the exclusion of leaders
01:07such as the UK's Keir Starmer, Spain's Pedro Sánchez and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
01:13is unprecedented and a sign of souring relations.
01:18A British journalist misleadingly describes Starmer's exclusion as a massive stain on British history.
01:24Several Spanish media outlets have also misleadingly reported that Trump has ignored
01:29or snubbed Prime Minister Sánchez by inviting Santiago Abascal,
01:34the leader of Spain's far-right Vox party, instead.
01:37Spain's foreign minister clarified that
01:46While it is striking that so many hard-line right-wing figures have been invited by Trump,
01:50the fact that EU heads of state and government will not be joining celebrations in Washington
01:55does not in itself signal a breakdown in relations.