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New York Post
11 hours ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Trump calls out Putin as ‘misguided,' says US could send Ukraine Patriot missile systems
President Trump took a rare dig at his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, following this week's NATO summit in the Netherlands before telling a Ukrainian reporter that 'we're going to see' if Washington is able to supply Patriot missile systems and munitions to assist Kyiv in its war against Moscow's invasion. 'I know one thing: He'd like to settle, he'd like to get out of this thing. It's a mess for him,' Trump told reporters in The Hague before departing the two-day gathering of Western leaders. 'I consider him a person that's, I think, been misguided. I'm very surprised, actually. I thought we would have had that settled.' Advertisement Gray TV reporter Jon Decker had pressed Trump about whether he views Russia as an adversary or whether he believes that the Kremlin has its sights set on territory beyond Ukraine. 4 Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured Monday during a meeting with the interim president of Mali. Getty Images 'It's possible. I mean, it's possible,' Trump replied to the latter question. Advertisement Despite some of his high-profile dustups with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump also admitted that Putin was the 'more difficult' leader to engage. 'Vladimir Putin has been more difficult. Frankly, I've had some problems with Zelensky,' Trump told reporters when asked about his campaign pledge to end the war in 24 hours. 'It's been more difficult than other wars.' Trump also showed empathy for BBC Ukraine correspondent Myroslava Petsa after she asked the president 'whether or not the US is ready to sell anti-air missile systems to Ukraine.' 'We know that Russia has been pounding Ukraine really heavily right now,' she added. Advertisement Before addressing her question, Trump asked Petsa: 'Are you living there, yourself, now?' 4 President Trump listens to a question from BBC Ukraine reporter Myroslava Petsa (below) following the NATO Summit at The Hague in the The Netherlands. instagram/saintjavelin 'My husband is there now,' she said. 'And me with the kids, I'm in Warsaw [Poland], actually. Because he wanted me to.' Advertisement The visibly moved Trump responded, 'wow, that's amazing,' before asking whether Petsa's husband was 'a soldier,' which she confirmed. 'Wow, that's rough stuff, right?' he told the reporter. 'That's tough.' Trump then went on to affirm that Kyiv wants to buy the weapons from the US — and pledged that 'we're going to see if we can make some available.' 'You know, they're very hard to get. We need them too,' the president said. 'We were supplying them to Israel, and they're very effective — 100% effective. Hard to believe how effective. And they do want that more than any other thing, as you probably know.' 'That's very good question, and I wish you a lot of luck,' Trump told Petsa. 'I mean, I can see it's very upsetting to you.' Trump has been growing impatient with Putin, lashing out in response to some of Russia's most brutal attacks on Ukraine — such as a barrage of 300 drone and missile attacks last month, which prompted the president to rip the Russian leader as 'crazy.' Still, the administration has been reticent about ratcheting up sanctions on Russia, despite a growing push from Congress to do so. 'If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the cease-fire, and then who's talking to them?' Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Politico in an interview on the sidelines of the summit. Advertisement 4 President Trump, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shake hands during their meeting at the NATO Summit Wednesday. UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE/AFP via Getty Images Trump met with Zelensky earlier Wednesday, after which the the Ukrainian leader said he 'congratulated President Trump on the successful operation in the Middle East.' 'It is important that the US actions have weakened not only their nuclear program but also their drone production capabilities. We will continue to keep an eye on the situation,' he said. 'We discussed the protection of our people with the president — first and foremost, the purchase of American air defense systems to shield our cities, our people, churches, and infrastructure,' Zelensky explained in a readout. 'Ukraine is ready to buy this equipment and support American weapons manufacturers. Europe can help. We also discussed the potential for co-production of drones. We can strengthen each other.'
New York Times
28-01-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Welcome, Podcasters! White House Wants New Media at the Press Briefing
In the delicate journalistic ecosystem of the White House's James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, the seating chart is the be-all, end-all of status. Where a reporter sits says it all, from the coveted first row of well-coiffed network correspondents to the back, a Siberia of smaller outlets like Cheddar and Gray TV. So at a moment where Washington's hierarchies are in flux, it was no surprise on Tuesday when the Trump administration declared that the seats could use a shake-up. One prominent chair off to the side of the press secretary's lectern, typically occupied by a White House official, will now be assigned to a reporter from 'new media,' a catchall category that the administration said would include podcasters, social media influencers and other creators of 'news-related content.' 'It's essential to our team that we share President Trump's message everywhere and adapt our White House to the new media landscape in 2025,' Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, said at her debut briefing, while projecting a chart that showed Americans' declining trust in traditional media institutions. The announcement was intended to be rich in symbolism, although it also appeared to be something of a compromise. Seats in the briefing room are traditionally assigned by the White House Correspondents' Association, which negotiates with the president's aides over access and logistics. Rumors had flown that Mr. Trump may seek to evict news organizations that he professed to dislike. Instead, the administration avoided a clash — for now, at least — by simply adding a seat. (The Correspondents' Association has no jurisdiction over the row of chairs located to the side of the lectern.) Ms. Leavitt, pointedly, took her first questions on Tuesday from a pair of reporters that she identified as members of the 'new media.' Both of them, however, were relatively familiar to the Washington press corps. The leadoff questioner, Mike Allen, is an embodiment of the establishment media: a former reporter at The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico, he is now one of the leaders of Axios, a popular Washington news site. Axios did not previously have an assigned seat in the Brady briefing room, partly because the site's editors frequently said they saw little value in attending. 'We beg our reporters to never go to a White House press briefing,' Mr. Allen's partner, Jim VandeHei, told Vanity Fair two weeks ago. The second question went to Matt Boyle, the Washington bureau chief of Breitbart News, the right-wing outlet. Breitbart's reporters have regularly attended White House briefings for many years, although it, too, has never had an assigned spot. 'We view today as a historic first step by the White House to rectify the wrongs committed by the failed establishment and legacy media and the bankrupted institutions that protect them,' Mr. Boyle wrote in an email on Tuesday. For her third question, Ms. Leavitt turned to a more traditional news organization: The Associated Press. Its reporter, Zeke Miller, asked Ms. Leavitt if she viewed her role 'as advocating on behalf of the president, or providing the unvarnished truth?' 'I commit to telling the truth from this podium every single day,' Ms. Leavitt replied. She added, 'While I vow to provide the truth from this podium, we ask that all of you in this room hold yourself to that same standard.'
