The Macron And Trump Bromance Returns
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at French president Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with US president Donald Trump on the future of Ukraine.
Speaking with reporters at the White House, Trump said Russian president Vladimir Putin would accept European peacekeepers in Ukraine as part of a potential deal to end the war.
James and Alex are joined by the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | So Adam's off, so it's me and James. Hi, James. |
| 0:06.9 | Hello, Alex. |
| 0:07.3 | So we've just been watching, well, we were kind of waiting all day to watch this moment |
| 0:11.7 | when we had Emmanuel Macron of France going to the White House to meet President Trump. |
| 0:17.9 | And they were doing that thing that he now does, which is they sit in the armchairs and do not an official press conference, but like people are just chucking questions. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah. And it used to be with other presidents that that would last a minute or two. You get to |
| 0:29.6 | chuck a couple of questions. Maybe you used to be there. He used to be a correspondent. |
| 0:32.5 | I was out in the state of the Sunday. I watched all of this happen and you would throw a few questions and then get chucked out. And Trump basically turns it into a press conference and it went on and on |
| 0:40.9 | and they touched each other a lot, which I thought was interesting. There's quite often a lot of bodily |
| 0:44.9 | contact between Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump, usually in the former handshakes, but there |
| 0:48.9 | was a hand on a thigh at one moment. There was and there was issues of really big substance. |
| 0:54.9 | Of course, mainly Ukraine talked about in the future of Ukraine, |
| 0:58.1 | and we're going to get into all of that on this episode of Newscast. |
| 1:01.6 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:03.9 | I like landscapes. |
| 1:04.9 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 1:06.2 | Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. |
| 1:08.7 | That is not the agenda. |
| 1:10.0 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 1:12.2 | The star is born, Elon. |
| 1:14.1 | So hurt that a miracle that is happening. Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
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