Overview
- Trump told Politico he backed Argentina’s Javier Milei and asserted that support helped deliver a landslide, citing a context that included a confirmed $20 billion Treasury–BCRA stabilization arrangement announced a week before the vote.
- In the interview, he portrayed European leaders as weak, described Europe as in decline over migration, and derided NATO’s performance.
- Trump said Russia holds the negotiating advantage in the war, claimed he sent a new draft peace proposal to Kyiv, and criticized President Volodymyr Zelenski for not reading it.
- Zelenski said Ukraine will soon send revised responses to Washington’s plan after meetings with European leaders and an audience with Pope León XIV in Italy.
- European leaders pushed back at Washington’s posture, with European Council President António Costa rejecting interference in allies’ democratic life and Germany’s Friedrich Merz calling parts of the U.S. security strategy unacceptable, while Trump left open possible U.S. military action in Venezuela and said Nicolás Maduro’s days are numbered.