Vannacci's "report card" on tariffs: "Trump gets an 8, Von der Leyen a 3. He sold us out." Salvini unleashes: "The EU is killing us."

Rome. Trump gets the big report card , Vannacci gives the small ones, and Salvini uses the spirit level: it's all the Germans' fault. Go ahead, tariffs. General, this is Il Foglio: "Good morning, present." Fifteen percent tariffs? "The result of an unworthy Commission." Von der Leyen? "A three. He sold us out." Trump? "A eight. A patriot. For America." General, what will the League do? "We'll resubmit the no-confidence motion to Ursula." Again? "We're working hard." Still against Ursulaccia? "The Tunberry agreement demonstrates her inadequacy." What did you understand from the lack of information? "That the EU has plagued us with renewables, only to now buy liquid gas for 750 billion." What would that do? "A great deal of football." Don't tell us where, but tell us to whom! "The Green Deal. We need the Europe of Lepanto." Mamma li turchi!

Will the carpetbaggers save us, or perhaps we're truly down. The first result of the Trump-von der Leyen agreement? This: Elly Schlein thinks like Vannacci, and Salvini like Peppe Provenzano. All four are against the 15 percent Trump-von der Leyen agreement, which Schlein says "is not a good agreement but a surrender to American impositions." Salvini? Here's his statement: "To understand whether the agreement reached between the EU and America on 15 percent tariffs is sustainable, we need to talk to businesses." It's already a shock, a torment, a bloodbath. Of alliances. General Vannacci on the phone with Il Foglio points the way: "Do you know what Einstein said? How mad it is to always do the same things. Follow me." We'll try. "A negotiation is called a negotiation if it's negotiated, but in this case, what's the advantage for Europe? Do you know what it is?" General, but who are you in the League on? "We're in favor of a no-confidence motion against Ursula, for a change of pace." Yes, but Trump imposed the tariffs, correct? "Yes, but Trump, who is a patriot, is acting in his country's best interests, and we appreciate patriotism. Trump was only defending his own interests." Ursula? "If we had passed a no-confidence motion, we wouldn't have this agreement." And yet, Meloni said 'no' to the no-confidence motion a few weeks ago, remember? "I don't get involved in President Meloni's decisions." General, what solution do you propose? "I'll tell you when you vote for me to lead Europe."

Is it now clear why Meloni demanded the joint statement on tariffs, a Meloni-Salvini-Tajani three-way statement? She had already figured it out. From Forza Italia: "Simple, Meloni expected the League's reaction. To prevent Salvini and the League from unleashing their anger, she demanded that statement, but as we all know, it doesn't work with Salvini." Speaking of which, where is Salvini? We called the League members who are busy with the League party in Cervia this weekend, and they told us that the secretary might be speaking—in fact, it's certain—and that for now the mandate is to say: "It's all von der Leyen's fault. You can never be wrong with that statement." It's 2:30 PM and Salvini intervenes from Bardonecchia to say that "the Prime Minister spoke about tariffs" and that without a doubt "Giorgia Meloni has done everything possible and impossible, but it's clear that a Germany-led Europe, which serves the Germans' interests, which only concerns itself with German mistakes—think of the Green Deal—is unbalanced towards other countries." In short, have we won or have we lost? We call the League's Politburo, where there's always someone with clear ideas who explains: "But it's obvious. Trump won, acting like a sovereignist for his country, and I tell you more, it's all about finding out what's on the product list. Do you want to see that France and Germany have reached an agreement to the detriment of Italy? Here we need to study the documents, the "details." The word of the day, in fact, becomes "details." Meloni from Addis Ababa says she "wants to see the details." At the Ministry of Economy and Finance, where Abbot Giorgetti lives (but at the time of writing he's in Milan), no comment is made because "the details" are missing and because Abbot Giorgetti believes, like Dinouart (The Art of Silence, Sellerio), that "it's best to speak only when you have to say something that is worth more than silence." He doesn't even finish thinking this, and Salvini, who has moved to Milan, lets it be known that "European rules are a massacre. The greatest burden? It's the green deal." A historic day ("and yet the details are missing") in Italy ends like this: internal politics. Tajani says that the Zaia List, in Veneto, is not a good idea (and he does so to provoke Zaia who in turn holds Salvini accountable). Max Romeo, who is the secretary of the Lombard League, warns that "if Veneto were to go to the League, Lombardy will also be the League" and in the (shopping) list he also adds the city of Milan, the post-Beppe Sala: "Former rector Ferruccio Resta has the profile to face this challenge." The captain's armband? In Europe, Vannacci took it. Only Trump could have done it. He managed to bring them together like the Holy League: him, Salvini, Conte, Schlein. Trump will be given Greenland and Peppe Provenzano, at the very least, the island of Cyprus.

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