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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cEurope is not doing a good job in many ways. They\u2019re not doing a good job.\u201d \u201cI want to ask you about that\u2014\u201d \u201cThey talk too much, and they\u2019re not producing. But most European nations, they\u2019re decaying. They\u2019re decaying.\u201d \u201cYou can imagine some leaders in Europe are a little freaked out by what your posture is. And European \u2014\u201d \u201cWell they should be freaked out by what they\u2019re doing to their countries. They\u2019re destroying their countries and their people I like.\u201d \u201cRussia has the upper hand, and they always did. They\u2019re much bigger. They\u2019re much stronger in that sense. I give Ukraine a lot of \u2014 I give the people of Ukraine and the military of Ukraine tremendous credit for the bravery and for the fighting and all of that. But at some point, size will win, generally.\u201d \u201cIs Zelensky responsible for the stalled progress or what\u2019s going on there?\u201d \u201cWell, he\u2019s got to read the proposal. He hadn\u2019t really. He hasn\u2019t read it yet.\u201d \u201cThe most recent draft.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s as of yesterday. Maybe he\u2019s read it over the night. It would be nice if he would read it. A lot of people are dying. He\u2019s going to have to get on the ball and start accepting things. When you\u2019re losing, cause he\u2019s losing.\u201d<\/p>\n President Trump criticized his European counterparts over their defense and Ukraine policies during an interview with Politico. The president also suggested that it was time for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to compromise in the cease-fire talks.<\/span><\/p>\n By Chevaz Clarke<\/p>\n December 9, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Trump Calls Europe \u2018Decaying\u2019 and \u2018Weak\u2019 transcript Back transcript Trump Calls Europe \u2018Decaying\u2019 and \u2018Weak\u2019 President Trump criticized his European counterparts over their defense and Ukraine policies during an interview with Politico. The president also suggested that it was time for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to compromise in the cease-fire talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[680,20421,896,81,5348],"class_list":{"0":"post-36642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-calls","9":"tag-decaying","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-trump","12":"tag-weak"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Trump Calls Europe \u2018Decaying\u2019 and \u2018Weak\u2019<\/h2>\n
President Trump criticized his European counterparts over their defense and Ukraine policies during an interview with Politico. The president also suggested that it was time for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to compromise in the cease-fire talks.<\/h4>\n