Macron dared what scares all heads of state in the White House

On a visit to Washington, Emmanuel Macron interrupted and corrected Donald Trump about the help granted to Ukraine, triggering the pout of the American president.

Visiting Washington to meet Donald TrumpEmmanuel Macron seemed to make a strong impression in the corridors of the White House, this Monday, February 24, 2025. The French president first confirmed that Vladimir Putin was indeed the assailant in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and recalled that he had violated the agreements of Minsk 1 and 2. The tenant of the Elysée also wanted to emphasize that the only way of contrary the Kremlin to respect a peace agreement was to have Guarantees with European but also American troops or presence on the ground.

But it is a particular sequence that has surprised, even shocked by its unprecedented character. Indeed, few heads of states can boast of having done it, or having tried it against the president of the United States and his well-licked distributed. During the press conference organized on the occasion of the arrival of the tricolor president in America, Donald Trump said that Europeans “lend money to Ukraine and that they were reimbursed”, for that, while the United States, they simply operate financial compensation with Ukraine as part of the mineral access plan. “Just for you to understand, Europe lends money to Ukraine. She recovers her money,” said Donald Trump.

Macron interrupts and corrects Trump in Washington

A statement that did not fail to react Emmanuel Macron. The French president did not deflate himself, quite the contrary, and corrected his American counterpart in front of the whole world and interrupting him: “No, to be frank, we paid. We paid 60 % of the total effort , like the United States, for loans, guarantees, subsidies.

For his part, the President of the United States spoke about billions of euros in frozen Russian assets in Europe since the invasion of February 2022. “We have 230 billion dollars in frozen active ingredients in Europe, Russian assets. But it is not a loan guarantee, because it does not belong to us. Declarations and daring that have obviously did not convince the leader of the world’s leading power, even triggering his characteristic pout.

“If you believe that, I agree. But they (Europeans) recover their money, and we, no. And now, yes,” insists Trump, refer to the Agreement on minerals currently in discussions with kyiv . To reimburse “the American taxpayer”, the American president now plans to recover $ 500 billion in Ukrainian rare land. A request for already set aside by Volodymyr Zelensky, assuring not wanting to “sell your country”.