Meloni added in her announcement that she would “defend who we were, I will defend our friendship and I will defend, at all costs, a seven-year-old who loves her mother and father in a way I could not love mine”. “Heat in the summer isn’t big news,” he said in July when temperatures reached record-breaking levels in Italy. Giambruno’s other on-air gaffes include comments denying the climate crisis. At the time, Meloni said his words had been misinterpreted and that while they were “hasty”, they were similar to what her mother had told her, which was to “keep your eyes peeled and head screwed on”. He made the remarks on air after a series of high-profile rape cases. In September, Meloni defended Giambruno after he said women should “avoid getting drunk” if they wanted to avoid being raped. Meloni met Andrea Giambruno in a Mediaset studio.
