The Golden Shower Returns

Maybe he's enjoying it (again).

I'm not sure the typical American will be able to read this picture easily. So I'm going to help out. The prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, is standing at a second-floor balcony in a charming little Italian hill town. She is pouring a piss pot full of pee on the head of the president of the United States, Donald Trump. Trump is holding some sticks in his hands. These may be highly symbolic in Italian culture, but frankly I have no idea what they mean.

Long and short, this is sort of the anti-Romeo and Juliet balcony scene, where Juliet says, "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" Juliet is making an attempt to bridge the gap between her family, the Capulets, and Romeo's family, the Montagues. 

Instead, Meloni is telling Trump to buzz off.

By the way, emptying pee pots from an upper window was a very old European tradition. It's fairly clear that it dates back at least to the Romans, although they often set up large vessels by the front door of their apartment buildings where people were encouraged to dump their pee pots. The urine collected could be used in tanning hides.

There's a remote possibility that the British English term for bathroom - the loo - derives from an old Parisian custom. Parisians would empty their chamber pots from upper floor windows, but being considerate of their neighbors who might be passing below, they would call out "Garde l'eau," which means "Watch out for the water." 

But anyway, if you want to get rid of an unwanted suitor, this was, for many years, an available tactic. And I think it pretty accurately describes the hosing that Giorgia Meloni just gave to Donald Trump. Our president, you know.

See also Scavengers and Scow Trimmers, I Found a Picture on a Wall.