Overview

• Trump made the remarks during a Q&A session after signing a bill ahead of a military parade celebrating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.
• He recounted a call with President Macron in which France marked its World War II victory, prompting Trump’s quip questioning whose triumph it really was.
• Trump quoted President Putin saying the Soviet Union lost roughly 51 million lives fighting alongside the Allies but now faces global hostility.
• The president lamented that the United States is the only nation not formally commemorating its victories in World Wars I and II.
• He described current global sentiments toward wartime allies and former foes as “a strange world,” pointing to shifting alliances and historical memory.