{"id":81657,"date":"2025-05-07T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/81657\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:56:08","slug":"biden-says-trump-zelenskyy-clash-was-beneath-america-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/81657\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden says Trump-Zelenskyy clash was \u2018beneath America\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He added: \u201cWhat president ever talks like that? That\u2019s not who we are.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Trump used the February meeting in the Oval Office to accuse Ukraine\u2019s president of being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/28\/trump-vance-zelenskyy-oval-office-exchange-00206727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insufficiently grateful<\/a> for American support. The meeting ended without an agreement, though the pair later met at Pope Francis\u2019 funeral and the two countries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/02\/trumps-minerals-deal-ukraine-russia-00322359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have now agreed a minerals deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden branded Trump\u2019s approach to the war in Ukraine \u201cmodern day appeasement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen to what [Russian President Vladimir] Putin said when he talked about going from Kyiv into Ukraine. And why. He believes it\u2019s part of mother Russia,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n<p>Amid signs of a U.S. retreat from its role as guarantor of European security, Biden said the future of the NATO military alliance was now of \u201cgrave concern\u201d to him and warned \u201cit would change the modern history of the world if that occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been right to take issue with America subsidizing European defense, Biden pushed back: \u201cThey don\u2019t have a point. When we were attacked, what happened on 9\/11? They all responded and supported us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seb Starcevic contributed reporting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added: \u201cWhat president ever talks like that? That\u2019s not who we are.\u201d Trump used the February meeting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[1213,768,1395,473,32,7058,805,2348,601,714,2597,20446,602,48,332,413,657,49,978,659,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-81657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-european-defense","14":"tag-foreign-policy","15":"tag-history","16":"tag-jd-vance","17":"tag-joe-biden","18":"tag-military","19":"tag-panama","20":"tag-pete-hegseth","21":"tag-rights","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-space","24":"tag-ukraine","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","29":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114466192386876364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81657","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=81657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}