{"id":47903,"date":"2025-04-24T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47903\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:49:08","slug":"trump-should-direct-anger-at-putin-who-must-stop-lying-about-ukraine-macron-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/47903\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump should direct anger at Putin, who \u2018must stop lying\u2019 about Ukraine, Macron says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114388111141848447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted exasperatedly<\/a>\u00a0about Ukraine\u2019s hesitance to accept that demand and criticized Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. <\/p>\n<p>Macron, however, said Trump\u2019s ire should be aimed squarely at Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an aggressor, Russia, and there is a victim, Ukraine,\u201d Macron said. \u201cAmerican frustration should be directed at only one person: President Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Trump has been particularly critical of Zelenskyy, he said he was \u201cnot happy\u201d with Putin after Thursday\u2019s deadly attack on the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cNot necessary, and very bad timing,\u201d Trump wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/trump-putin-ceasefire-negotiations-00307270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a post on Truth Social<\/a>. \u201cVladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Veronika Melkozerova, Giorgio Leali and Elena Giordiano contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday\u00a0posted exasperatedly\u00a0about Ukraine\u2019s hesitance to accept that demand and criticized Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,34,2000,299,26130,660,43,25802,332,657,49,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-47903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-giorgio-leali","13":"tag-kremlin","14":"tag-macron","15":"tag-madagascar","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-vladimir-putin","20":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114395621872046987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47903","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=47903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}