{"id":372699,"date":"2025-08-25T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372699\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:07:12","slug":"trump-updates-south-korea-leader-lee-jae-myung-visits-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372699\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump updates: South Korea leader Lee Jae-myung visits White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

A potentially explosive day ahead at the White Housepublished at 16:23 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

16:23 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Bernd Debusmann Jr<\/strong>
Reporting from the White House<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorImage source, Bernd Debusmann Jr\/BBC News<\/p>\n

I’m currently at the White House, where much of this morning’s focus was – at least originally – expected to be on two domestic executive orders President Trump will be signing shortly. <\/p>\n

Now, much of the world’s media focus is on the upcoming meeting between Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung later today, after Trump’s suggestion that a “purge” or “revolution” is taking place. <\/p>\n

The comment may make for an extremely tense meeting – a once nearly unthinkable occurrence that already has precedent during this Trump administration.<\/p>\n

I was here at the White House for both previous Oval Office dust-ups, starting with the now-infamous shouting match between Trump. Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in February.<\/p>\n

Several months later, in May, it was South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s turn to draw Trump’s ire. <\/p>\n

In that meeting, Trump’s team ambushed the visiting delegation with claims that white farmers in his nation were being killed and “persecuted” – a largely discredited claim. Trump showed a video of several crosses lining a road, claiming they were burial sites for murdered white farmers.<\/p>\n

No doubt, the South Korean delegation will be hoping to avoid a similar incident and is working behind the scenes to bring tensions down before they arrive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A potentially explosive day ahead at the White Housepublished at 16:23 British Summer Time 16:23 BST Bernd Debusmann…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-372699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115090269485912292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372699","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=372699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}