{"id":880465,"date":"2025-12-25T00:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-hints-at-abandoning-ukraine-rambles-about-weak-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T00:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:22:18","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-president-hints-at-abandoning-ukraine-rambles-about-weak-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/25\/trump-news-at-a-glance-president-hints-at-abandoning-ukraine-rambles-about-weak-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: president hints at abandoning Ukraine, rambles about \u2018weak\u2019 Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump has hinted he could walk away from supporting Ukraine as he doubled down on his administration\u2019s recent criticism of Europe, describing it as \u201cweak\u201d and \u201cdecaying\u201d and claiming it was \u201cdestroying itself\u201d through immigration.<\/p>\n

In a rambling and sometimes incoherent interview with Politico, a transcript<\/a> of which was released on Tuesday, the US president struggled to name any other Ukrainian cities except for Kyiv, misrepresented elements of the trajectory of the conflict, and recycled far-right tropes about European immigration that echoed the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d conspiracy theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump called for Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to accept his proposal to cede territory to Russia, arguing that Moscow retained the \u201cupper hand\u201d and that Zelenskyy\u2019s government must \u201cplay ball\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Trump lambasts \u2018weak\u2019 and \u2018decaying\u2019 Europe <\/h2>\n

The US president repeatedly described what he said were Europe\u2019s problems in entirely racial terms, calling some unnamed European leaders \u201creal stupid\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it keeps going the way it\u2019s going, Europe will not be \u2026 in my opinion \u2026 many of those countries will not be viable countries any longer. Their immigration policy is a disaster. What they\u2019re doing with immigration is a disaster. We had a disaster coming, but I was able to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump rails on affordability \u2018hoax\u2019 and immigrants in rally-style speech<\/h2>\n

Donald Trump has sought to reboot his ailing presidency at a rally-style event with a blitz of false claims about the economy and xenophobic attacks on immigrants and \u201cshithole countries\u201d. In the wake of criticism that he is out of touch with America\u2019s affordability crisis, Trump\u2019s speech in Pennsylvania was billed as an opportunity to reclaim the economic narrative.<\/p>\n

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Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show<\/h2>\n

Donald Trump<\/a> signed mortgage documents in the 1990s claiming two separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence \u2013 the same thing his administration is calling \u201cmortgage fraud\u201d when done by political rivals, records show.<\/p>\n

ProPublica<\/a> unearthed documents demonstrating that within seven weeks of each other in late 1993 and early 1994, the president obtained loans for neighboring Palm Beach homes, pledging each would be his primary dwelling. Instead of living in them, though, he rented both out as investment properties.<\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tufts student can resume research after Trump officials revoked her visa, judge rules<\/h2>\n

A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she deals with the consequences of having her visa revoked by the Trump administration<\/a>, leading to six weeks of detention.<\/p>\n

R\u00fcmeysa \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, a PhD student studying children\u2019s relationship to social media, was among the first people arrested<\/a> as the Trump administration<\/a> began targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in pro-Palestinian advocacy. She had co-authored an op-ed<\/a> criticizing her university\u2019s response to Israel and the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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Justice department can release Ghislaine Maxwell court materials, judge says<\/h2>\n

Judge Paul A Engelmayer ruled after the justice department in November asked two judges in New York<\/a> to unseal grand jury transcripts and exhibits from Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s cases, along with investigative materials that could amount to hundreds or thousands of previously unreleased documents.<\/p>\n

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Gianni Infantino accused of breaking Fifa rules with Trump\u2019s peace prize<\/h2>\n

The Fifa president has been accused of breaching his organisation\u2019s rules on political neutrality in relation to United States president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Infantino and Trump have formed a close bond in recent years, with the US one of the co-hosts for next year\u2019s men\u2019s World Cup<\/a>. Infantino even presented Trump with the inaugural Fifa peace prize at last Friday\u2019s World Cup draw in Washington DC.<\/p>\n

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Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened Monday, 8 December<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n