First he came for your eggs, and now he’s taking your pasta.

President Donald Trump is slapping a 107% tariff on Italian pasta brands, causing them to soon be unable to stay in the U.S. market. This is partly thanks to Trump’s creepy antipathy toward Europe.

Well, not all of Europe.

Trump is very cool with Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orban and even Italy’s own fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. But apparently Meloni didn’t do enough to get on Trump’s good side, because his Department of Commerce has been probing several Italian pasta companies.

For decades, Italian pasta makers have been investigated by the Commerce Department over allegations of dumping pasta into the U.S. market at low rates to undermine domestic competition. But—because this is the Trump era—it’s now s

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