French President Emmanuel Macron "interrupted" US President Donald Trump during a White House press briefing while Trump was speaking on Ukraine funding. Macron corrected Trump's claim that Europe only loans money to Ukraine, stating, "No, in fact, we paid 60% of the total effort." The moment quickly went viral, with some praising Macron's "fact-checking" and others calling it "impolite." The exchange highlights tensions over Ukraine aid and the US-Europe relationship. Monday’s meeting was Trump and Macron’s first in-person encounter since December 2024.
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00:00Who, for instance, support the U.S. being compensated?
00:26I support the idea to have Ukraine first being compensated because they are the one to lose
00:32a lot of their fellow citizens and being destroyed by this attack.
00:36Second, all of those who paid for could be compensated, but not by Ukraine, by Russia,
00:42because they were the one to aggress.
00:43Just so you understand, Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine.
00:50They get their money back.
00:51In fact, to be frank, we paid 60% of the total defaults, and it was through, like the U.S.,
00:59loans, guarantees, grants, and we provided real money, to be clear.
01:04We have 230 billion frozen assets in Europe, Russian assets, but this is not as a collateral
01:11of a loan because this is not our belonging.
01:14So they are frozen.
01:15If, at the end of the day, in the negotiation we will have with Russia, they are ready to
01:19give it to us, super.
01:20It will be loaned at the end of the day, and Russia will have paid for that.
01:24If you believe that, it's okay with me.
01:27They get their money back, and we don't, and now we do, but you know, that's only fair.
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