{"id":355822,"date":"2025-08-19T03:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355822\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T03:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:49:14","slug":"5-oddest-moments-from-european-leaders-trip-to-see-trump-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355822\/","title":{"rendered":"5 oddest moments from European leaders\u2019 trip to see Trump \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump interjected, \u201cI said the same thing.\u201d Turning to Zelenskyy, Trump added helpfully, \u201cThat\u2019s the one that attacked you last time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/13270730-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7031367\"  \/>Speaking about NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Donald Trump said he is \u201ca great gentleman, a great political leader generally.\u201d | Pool Photo by Aaron Schwartz via EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember that,\u201d Zelenskyy replied dryly, earning chuckles from the room. \u201cYou are in the same suit,\u201d he quipped, addressing Glenn without missing a beat. \u201cYou see, I changed. You [did] not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You guys are fantastic! Popular! Tanned!<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the roundtable discussion, Trump was in a particularly giving mood and paid each visiting EU leader a series of compliments, some more generous and thought-out than others.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Trump said he is \u201ca great gentleman, a great political leader generally.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer was described as a \u201cfriend\u201d by Trump, who added: \u201cPeople like him a lot, you all like him.\u201d That will have come as a surprise to many British voters, who are rather vocal about not liking Starmer one little bit.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron earned some unusual praise: \u201cPresident Macron of France who has been with me from the beginning. I liked him from Day 1 and I like him even more now. That\u2019s pretty good, that\u2019s unusual.\u201d Presumably Trump meant \u201cfrom the beginning\u201d in the sense of them both becoming country leaders in the same year (2017) and not in the sense that he\u2019s Macron\u2019s father!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump interjected, \u201cI said the same thing.\u201d Turning to Zelenskyy, Trump added helpfully, \u201cThat\u2019s the one that attacked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[766,5293,32,34,2000,299,5187,769,36,1945,1824,2440,2199,807,2992,6717,657,15,49,1220,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-355822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-alexander-stubb","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-finland","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-friedrich-merz","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-giorgia-meloni","20":"tag-italy","21":"tag-keir-starmer","22":"tag-mark-rutte","23":"tag-transatlantic-relations","24":"tag-ukraine","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","28":"tag-vladimir-putin","29":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","30":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115053393655590078","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355822","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=355822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}