Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said Thursday that President Donald Trump had accepted her invitation to visit Italy.  

Meloni met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday where she announced that Trump would travel to Rome to continue tariff negotiations. 

"I want to thank President Trump for having accepted an invitation to pay an official visit to Rome in the near future and consider possibility in that occasion to meet also with Europe," Meloni told the press in the Oval Office. 

"The goal for me is to make the West great again, and I think we can do it together."

Trump and Meloni held closed-door discussions prior to allowing press access on a number of issues pressing their nations, among them, the tariff levels and enforcement on Italy and other European Union countries. 

Meloni has an established, close friendship with Trump and is considered to be in the best position to negotiate European Union tariff rates with the United States.