Donald Trump admitted to making agreements he didn’t quite understand with French President Emmanuel Macron.
The U.S. president met with his French counterpart Monday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, which Macron says must come with security guarantees for the war-torn nation. Trump told a light anecdote about a previous dinner meeting the two had in Paris.
“I just want to tell you a little story,” Trump said during a joint news conference at the White House. “So we were at the Eiffel Tower having dinner with your wonderful wife and with my wonderful wife, and we came out and he started speaking the French deal, and we didn’t have an interpreter, and he was going on and on and on, and I was just nodding, ‘Yes, yes, yes,’ and he really sold me out.
“Because I got back the next day and I read the papers [and] I said, ‘That’s not what we said,'” Trump said, as he and Macron clasped hands and laughed. “He’s a smart customer, I will tell you that. Do you remember? That wasn’t exactly what we agreed to.”
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After Monday’s meeting, a reporter asked if Trump would still call Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator, as he did last week, and Trump indicated that he would.
“I don’t use those words lightly,” Trump said. “I think that we’re going to see how it all works out. Let’s see what happens. I think we have a chance of a really good settlement between various countries, and, you know, you’re talking about Europe and you’re talking about Ukraine as part of that whole situation.
“The other side has a lot of a lot of support also, so let’s see how it all works out. It might work out. Look, you can never make up lives, the one thing you can’t – you can make up the money, but you can’t make up the lives. A lot of lives lost, I think probably a lot more lives than people are talking about. It’s been a rough war, but I think we’re close to getting it solved.”
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