--- title: Donald Trump Meets Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni: Watch Online description: Donald Trump is holding a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni at the White House for their first meeting canonical: https://time.com/4748370/donald-trump-paolo-gentiloni-meeting-watch-online/ author: Madeline Farber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-20T15:21:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:31:21.929Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: President Trump Meets with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni og:description: It's their first official meeting og:url: https://time.com/4748370/donald-trump-paolo-gentiloni-meeting-watch-online/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte42b9011185236c5/6988c352fb4eac3f9a891925/donald-trump-fox-interview.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: President Trump Participates In Roundtable With Women Small Business Owners og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: President Trump Meets with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni twitter:description: It's their first official meeting twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte42b9011185236c5/6988c352fb4eac3f9a891925/donald-trump-fox-interview.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: President Trump Meets With Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni > Sponsored content. 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Pool—Getty Images by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Apr 20, 2017 3:21 PM UTC President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4748080/bruce-springsteen-donald-trump-song/) is slated to meet with Italian Prime Minister [Paolo Gentiloni](http://time.com/4601874/paolo-gentiloni-government-italy/) for the first time. The two are scheduled to talk at 3:45 p.m. ET Thursday at the White House, according to the [Associated Press](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-to-meet-italian-premier-ahead-of-g-7-meeting-in-italy/2017/04/20/36e2a35e-25c7-11e7-928e-3624539060e8%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.db5e9c317bf5). They are expected to discuss the Group of Seven industrialized nations meeting in Italy next month, as well as a “range of issues,” between the two, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer [said](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b568b1103d964c24807770d1d6a909ee/white-house-trump-meet-italian-pm-next-week). The[ G-7 nations](http://time.com/21240/g-7-nations-wont-recognize-crimea-referendum/) — United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, France and the United Kingdom — have urged the Russian government to put pressure on the Syrian government to end the country’s six-year civil war, the Associated Press reported. Trump is expected to travel to Brussels for a NATO meeting in May. 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