Trump, European Leaders Meet To Discuss Ukraine
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:53.1 | it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Deepa Shibiram. I cover the White House. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security. I'm Tamara Keith. I also cover the White House. |
| 1:01.4 | And today on the show, we're unpacking the White House meetings yesterday between President Trump, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, and other European leaders. And Tam, I'll start with you here. |
| 1:11.6 | This was a meeting between the U.S. and Ukraine, but there were a lot of other European leaders who showed up here. |
| 1:17.8 | What was the point of that? Right. It was a huge showing from leaders of Europe essentially there to present a united front, to say that they are standing with |
| 1:29.4 | President Zelensky of Ukraine. And in some ways, because the last time Zelensky visited the White |
| 1:35.8 | House was so catastrophically bad, in some ways it seemed like it was almost an insurance policy |
| 1:42.5 | to have this united voice there to show |
| 1:46.5 | Trump how much this matters. And of course, it matters a lot to Europe. The fate of Ukraine is in |
| 1:53.6 | many ways the fate of Europe. Yeah, and I'll just add, you know, it was quite remarkable in the sense |
| 1:59.0 | that the Zelensky Trump meeting wasn't announced |
| 2:01.9 | till Saturday morning. So within 48 hours, all of these European leaders dropped everything they had |
| 2:08.7 | going on and they scrambled to get to Washington by Monday. As Tam mentioned, it was a very important |
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