ench President Emmanuel Macron publicly interrupted Donald Trump to correct another of the US President’s falsehoods over Ukraine.

The rare diplomatic rebuke today at the White House highlighted the underlying tensions in the two leaders’ discussions despite their outwardly cordial tone. It came as Trump revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin will accept European peacekeeping troops as part of a potential peace deal.

While both leaders expressed a willingness to cooperate on the future of Ukraine, the meeting unfolded against the backdrop of Trump’s history of making misleading claims about the war effort.
As the US leader spoke about his proposal to use Kyiv’s mineral revenues to repay American assistance, he claimed that European nations were merely loaning financial aid to Kyiv