In Taormina, a Playground for the Jet Set, Trump’s Worlds Will Collide But Mr. Sabato, the local king of building materials, was more interested in discussing his own potential run for mayor and his hope that Mr. Trump "will give me advice." While Mr. Trump, his family and advisers have expressed especially warm feelings toward Italy — "Great people, love Italy," Mr. Trump said repeatedly in a recent meeting with the Italian prime minister in the White House, according to a person in attendance — the president’s actual experience in Italy seems limited. Flavio Briatore, the Italian entrepreneur behind the Billionaire nightclub chain — he is also a convicted card cheat, a businessman banned from Formula One races for life for race fixing and the father of Heidi Klum’s child — is now perhaps best known for starring in the Italian version of "The Apprentice." "There was only one person that I wanted, and that was Flavio," Mr. Trump said in a promo for the Italian show. that She told me Lavrov is coming, ITALY Adriatic Sea Rome Naples SARDINIA Tyrrhenian Sea Ionian Sea SICILY Taormina Mediterranean Sea TUNISIA 200 Miles MAY 26, 2017 Mr. Trump’s first wife, Ivana, "loves Italian men," said Rossano Rubicondi, who was her fourth husband. Dino Papale said that That’s the room Trump will stay in, By JASON HOROWITZMAY 25, 2017 TAORMINA, Sicily — President Trump should enjoy some respite from the rigors of his recent travels on Friday when he gazes out of his luxury suite and takes in the view of Taormina, an iridescent pearl of the Ionian Sea. Days after Mr. Trump’s election in November, Mr. Papale was quoted at length in the local paper, La Sicilia, recounting that Mr. Trump had visited Taormina at his invitation in June 2013 and secretly stayed for three days at the Atlantis Bay Hotel.
