Trump was scolded by France’s Macron during call with world leaders: report
During a phone call with world leaders where the topic was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failure to negotiate in good faith about his Ukraine invasion, Donald Trump was scolded by French President Emmanuel Macron.
According to an exclusive report from the Wall Street Journal, Trump spoke on Monday with Macron, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to update them on his attempts to get Putin to come to the table and finally end the Ukraine incursion where the U.S. president admitted Putin is “not ready” because he thinks he is winning.
With the report noting that Trump had earlier told the same leaders that he was poised to issue sanctions against Russia to pressure Putin, the Journal reported he had a change of heart after his call with the Russian strongman, with the Journal’s Bojan Pancevski and Laurence Norman writing, “He wasn’t ready to do that. Instead, Trump said he wanted to proceed quickly with lower-level talks between Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican. “
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Having gotten that business out of the way, Trump reportedly then began to ramble before making statements that irked Macron and led to Trump being reprimanded.
“That Sunday call included some of Trump’s signature off-the-cuff style, mixing praise and criticism of European leaders,” the Journal is reporting. “At another point, he digressed into a broadside against Europe’s migration policies. Trump said out-of-control migration was bringing their countries to the ‘brink of collapse.’”
That, in turn led Macron to push back and ask him to back off, warning Trump, “You cannot insult our nations, Donald.”
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