Trump interjected, “I said the same thing.” Turning to Zelenskyy, Trump added helpfully, “That’s the one that attacked you last time.”
“I remember that,” Zelenskyy replied dryly, earning chuckles from the room. “You are in the same suit,” he quipped, addressing Glenn without missing a beat. “You see, I changed. You [did] not.”
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At the start of the roundtable discussion, Trump was in a particularly giving mood and paid each visiting EU leader a series of compliments, some more generous and thought-out than others.
Speaking about NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Trump said he is “a great gentleman, a great political leader generally.”
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer was described as a “friend” by Trump, who added: “People like him a lot, you all like him.” That will have come as a surprise to many British voters, who are rather vocal about not liking Starmer one little bit.
France’s Emmanuel Macron earned some unusual praise: “President Macron of France who has been with me from the beginning. I liked him from Day 1 and I like him even more now. That’s pretty good, that’s unusual.” Presumably Trump meant “from the beginning” in the sense of them both becoming country leaders in the same year (2017) and not in the sense that he’s Macron’s father!