President Donald Trump participates in a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, in Washington.

Donald Trump was caught boasting to Emmanuel Macron about his relationship with Vladimir Putin on Monday.

The US president was near a microphone as he chatted to his French counterpart just before they held a roundtable meeting in front of the press.

Trump was hosting European leaders, including Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Keir Starmer, at the White House following his face-to-face with Putin in Alaska last Friday.

That meeting ended in failure as Trump extracted no new concessions from Putin and did not seem to bring the prospect of a peace deal any closer.

Trump even dropped his own plan to secure a ceasefire from the Russian president, and quite literally rolled out the red carpet for him in the States.

Macron and his allies........

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