President Donald Trump railed that Democratic-run cities are “always dirty,” demanded that Columbus, Ohio, put back a statue of its namesake, and claimed Hollywood was once forbidden from giving Italian names to movie gangsters as he turned what was meant to be a speech marking Columbus Day into an hour-long meandering speech.
The president on Friday took a White House audience of Italian-American leaders through a litany of subjects ranging from Luciano Pavarotti’s fees, to the glass in the new White House ballroom and the gas prices Trump claimed to have seen in Iowa before the war with Iran.
