{"id":355073,"date":"2025-08-18T21:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355073\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:01:11","slug":"zelensky-survives-another-episode-of-the-trump-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355073\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky survives another episode of the Trump show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">\u201cI CAN\u2019T BELIEVE it,\u201d said Donald Trump, America\u2019s president, as he greeted Volodymyr Zelensky, his Ukrainian counterpart, outside the White House on August 18th. \u201cI love it.\u201d Mr Trump was referring to Mr Zelensky\u2019s decision to bow to American pressure and wear a suit-like garment to the meeting, an issue that had contributed to an acrimonious blow-up in the Oval Office in February. It was a promising start to a pivotal summit, with a clutch of European leaders waiting in the wings to join the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI CAN\u2019T BELIEVE it,\u201d said Donald Trump, America\u2019s president, as he greeted Volodymyr Zelensky, his Ukrainian counterpart, outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[299,12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-355073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-europe","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115051789259674097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}