Meloni reacts angrily to Kirk meme, saying: “We will not be intimidated”.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday attacked a meme on social media about Charlie Kirk, the right-wing US activist who was shot useless at Utah University.
The picture, posted by Italian left-wing scholar actions Osa and Cambiare Rotta, encompasses a black and white upside-down picture of Kirk, his face coated with a crimson “-1”.
The publish is accompanied by the caption: “A buon intenditor poche parole” (an Italian proverb which signifies that few phrases are wanted to know) together with: “Oggi è un giorno meno buio” (Today is a much less darkish day).
In Italy, upside-down pictures are interpreted as a direct reference to the corpse of wartime fascist dictator Benito Mussolini hung in Milan’s Piazzale Loreto after Italian partisans executed him in 1945.
Questi sono i sedicenti antifascisti. Questo è il clima, ormai, anche in Italia. Nessuno dirà nulla, e allora lo faccio io.
Non ci facciamo intimidire. pic.twitter.com/PCgR6WaC70— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) September 11, 2025
Meloni, chief of the right-wing Fratelli d’Italia get together, shared a screenshot of the meme throughout her official social media profiles, writing (in Italian): “These are the so-called anti-fascists. This is the local weather, by now, additionally in Italy. No one will say something, so I’ll do it. We will not be intimidated.”
Earlier on Thursday Meloni expressed her shock over the killing of Kirk, 31, an influential conservative activist and a detailed ally of US President Donald Trump.
In a publish on social media, Meloni described Kirk’s killing as “an atrocious homicide, a deep wound for democracy and people who imagine in freedom”.
Italy’s deputy premier Matteo Salvini, chief of the right-wing Lega get together, paid tribute to Kirk by delivering flowers to the US embassy in Rome.
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