Trump says he is looking forward to a “very special” dinner with Macron as he wants to see the Palace of Versailles. because it “has a lot of gold.”
He then says he hopes Europe will “find its way,” as it is “having a lot of hard times” with energy. immigration.
And then he moves to Q&A.
… and on that note, it’s a wrap for today!
US president Donald Trump said he hoped “something will happen” in peace talks with Russia. Ukraine, as he praised “productive” talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in France and Vladimir Putin over the phone ( 18:34 ).
His comments come at the end of a two-day G7 summit in France, with Emmanuel Macron ( 17:03, 17:07 ), Germany’s Friedrich Merz ( 13:32 ). Italy’s Giorgia Meloni ( 16:34, 16:36 ) praising progress on getting the US closer to Europe’s position on supporting Ukraine.
Nato’s secretary general Mark Rutte earlier said. the idea of potential talks with Russia was “clearly debated among allies” ( 11:44 ).
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Trump will now fly to Paris to attend a formal dinner at the Palace of Versailles,. l et’s just say that not everyone in France is excited about this, as our Paris correspondent Angelique Chrisafis reports.
Trump ends the presser on a slightly random comment saying that if JD Vance goes to sign the deal with Iran. “if it works out, I’m going to take the credit; if it doesn’t work out, I’m blaming JD.”
“You better be careful, JD, he’s going to turn his plane around and get the hell out of here. Yeah, I like that idea. I think it’s a good idea.”
Trump is now talking about Brazil, saying it “has become a little rough” and “a little dangerous politically.”
That’s his response to this story I think:
I think we’re essentially going in circles now.
Trump got a question on energy prices going down,. so he goes back to his Iran deal and praises himself for it.
Curiously, Trump also thanks Russia’s Vladimir Putin. China’s Xi Jinping for staying neutral on Iran, saying otherwise “they could have made it much more difficult for us.”
Trump says he is looking forward to a “very special” dinner with Macron as he wants to see the Palace of Versailles. because it “has a lot of gold.”
He then says he hopes Europe will “find its way,” as it is “having a lot of hard times” with energy. immigration.
And then he moves to Q&A.
Trump also praises his bilateral talks, including specifically with France’s Macron, which he says was “a very good meeting.”
He doesn’t mention any other European leader here – despite repeated praise for leaders of Qatar, Egypt, India, and UAE.
Earlier, he also spoke about AI, saying “it’s going to be the biggest thing ever,” before adding “we have to be very careful with it: it’s both great. could be bad, we have to be careful with it.”
Trump also says there was “a great deal of unity” on tackling irregular migration. drug trafficking at the G7 summit, with “a beautiful statement” on the latter.
Trump is back to script, and he moves on to Ukraine.
He says he had “a productive conversation” with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and then Russia’s Putin on the phone.
He suggests “something is going to happen,” as he says Russia – the “offensive” party - is losing more soldiers than Ukraine.
He says he had “a very good conversation” with Putin and “a very, very good conversation with Zelenskyy.
“ I think they both want to do something. They just don’t know how to do it.”
He then swiftly moves on to international aid and the Ebola outbreak in Africa.
Trump also once again mentions Lebanon.
“The Lebanon peace is something we’ll have to work on a little bit. It’s a very small piece of the puzzle, actually, but it still makes a lot of noise.”
He says he hopes the peace agreement with Iran will be the beginning of a larger peace settlement across the Middle East.
Trump says he will work with the Gulf nations on “non-nuclear issues”. claims that maritime traffic through the strait of Hormuz “has already incrased very substantially” as a result of his political deal.
He then goes back to praising himself.
“What I’m doing. what I did should have been done years ago, would have been much easier, much less firepower, but it wasn’t.”
He says no US president in history has ever been tougher on Iran, before mentioning Suleimaini for the umpteenth time,. repeating his warning that if Iran doesn’t honour the deal, “we will probably go back to bombing them.”
Trump is still on Iran.
He says the deal will be signed shortly; maybe tomorrow, maybe Friday.
He is still praising himself for Iran. Suleimani, “one of the biggest event to happen in the Middle East, maybe ever.”
I will pick up any other lines when (if?) he eventually moves on.
But it’s worth noting a slight sense of frustration with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu as he says he “gets a little excited sometimes,”. they “have a little dispute over Lebanon.”
“Bibi, you don’t have to knock down a building every time somebody walks into it that’s from Hezbollah,” he says.
Trump swiftly pivots to Iran, saying his deal “achieves everything we set out to accomplish and … much more.”
“If we didn’t do this deal. we could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years, you years, you would never have the Hormuz strait open, you would never have success,” he says.
He says he “didn’t want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that could have happened.”
He also pats himself on the back for killing Iranian leader Qassem Suleimani, saying it was pre-requisite for this deal.
He says the G7 summit was “a chance to discuss the details of this historic agreement,”. says he kept getting praise for it from all leaders he met.
Oh, Trump is here and speaking now.
He begins with thanks to France’s Macron for a very successful G7 summit.
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