Elon Musk has denied having an affair with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, after footage of them collectively despatched social media right into a meltdown as he referred to the lawmaker as ‘stunning.’
Photos shared on-line confirmed the Tesla founder and the Italian Prime Minister gazing into one another’s eyes on the World Citizen Awards in New York Metropolis on Monday, as Musk handed Meloni the titular award.
‘Discover somebody who seems to be at you a similar manner the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni seems to be at Elon Musk,’ one X person wrote, sharing a photograph of Musk touching Meloni’s shoulder.
‘You may’t have mELONi with out ELON,’ one other added.
The New York Publish even went so far as to name the occasion a ‘public love-in’ between the world’s richest man and the primary feminine Italian prime minister.
Photos shared on-line confirmed the Tesla founder and the Italian Prime Minister gazing into one another’s eyes on the World Citizen Awards in New York Metropolis on Monday
The images from the occasion created a stir on social media, creation hypothesis about their relationship
However because the images began circulating on his social media platform, Musk denied having any amorous relations with Meloni on the black-tie occasion.
‘I used to be there with my Mother. There isn’t any romantic relationship by any means with PM Meloni,’ Musk wrote on X in response to a publish of a photograph exhibiting them gazing into one another’s eyes at a banquet desk, which had the joking caption, ‘Everyone knows what occurred subsequent.’
Musk and Meloni have met a number of instances earlier than, with the Italian prime minister internet hosting the billionaire at her official residence in Rome in June of final yr.
He then returned to the nation that December, when he spoke at a political competition hosted by Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy occasion.
They’ve beforehand mentioned their shared curiosity within the West’s declining delivery charges and the optimistic potential of AI, in keeping with the Telegraph.
Meloni, who break up from her longtime associate Andrea Giambruno after he made lewd feedback on Italian tv in 2023, even requested Musk hand her the World Citizen Award from the Atlantic Council suppose tank.
Meloni had requested that Musk hand her the World Citizen Award on the ceremony in New York Metropolis Monday night time
Briefly remarks earlier than handing over the award, Musk stated Meloni was ‘somebody who’s much more stunning inside than outdoors.’
‘That may’t at all times be stated about politicians,’ he joked, occurring to confer with her as ‘genuine, trustworthy and considerate.’
The Italian right-wing chief replied that the U.S. entrepreneur was a ‘treasured genius’ earlier than launching into her imaginative and prescient for western conservatism.
‘I do not know if nationalism is the right phrase as a result of it usually remembers doctrines of aggression or authoritarianism,’ she instructed the 600-plus particular person crowd in Manhattan’s Ziegfeld Ballroom.
‘Nevertheless, I do know that we shouldn’t be ashamed to make use of and defend phrases and ideas like ‘nation” and “patriotism.”‘
Meloni went on to name patriotism ‘the most effective response to declinism’ as she challenged perceptions of the ‘inevitable decline of the West.’
Musk was seen nodding all through her speech, and stood as much as applaud her when she was completed.
