Feb. 24, 2025 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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Three Years of the Ukraine War - Trump and Macron's Historic Meeting for Peace
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It looks like we're getting very close.
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We are here live back in studio after a great experience at CPAC. Today is February 24th, 2025. I know, Dominic.
So you just saw President Trump there as well.
He's currently meeting in the Oval Office with Emmanuel Macron.
Now, Macron is here in Washington, D.C., to try to draw support for what he calls a European military peacekeeping force to Ukraine.
The idea being that a peacekeeping force, of course, which will be made up of NATO countries, but potentially some non-NATO as well, like India, would be On the ground in Ukraine, potentially in a demilitarized zone outside of the Donbass, potentially to be able to stabilize the situation as is seen between Ukraine and Russia.
Now, this is something where a lot of people on the right have come down against, but I will go back to last year when I specifically said this is what was coming for Ukraine.
They're looking to Syrianize.
They are looking to Syrianize the situation.
Now, Poland was initially the first country that they were pushing up.
They wanted Polish troops to be in there, and they were going to have Polish troops be the first NATO forces inside Ukraine.
Poland, of course, under President Duda, said, no thanks.
So they came out.
Now France is forced to go hat in hand all the way to the White House to say, okay, well, we'll put French troops in there.
Right, French troops going up against the Russians.
Yeah, that worked really well the last time it was tried under Napoleon.
Again, we remember the history here.
We remember.
You can go back.
Well, I should say, I say we.
When I say we, of course, I mean those of you watching Human Events Daily.
I'm talking about the Human Events audience.
I'm talking about people who are highly informed.
People who are not low information, you're high information.
So high information Human Events listeners, of course, know about this.
Because what do we do here?
We talk about history.
We talk about the French Revolution.
We talk about the Napoleonic Wars.
We talk about all sorts of things that have gone on in Ukraine and Russia all the way back hundreds and hundreds of years.
Full-strike revolution, etc., etc.
Why?
Because all of it plays into the current situation.
And if you don't get that, like one of these libs out there, then you have no idea what you're talking about.
We'll be right back.
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So, folks, we're seeing President Trump there in the Oval Office.
He, of course, is meeting with President Macron.
And we will be, just so you know...
Programming note, we will be going.
So there's a press conference scheduled between President Trump and President Macron.
It was scheduled for 2 p.m.
Eastern, so obviously it has not yet begun.
So we're here in a little bit of a holding pattern.
We're going to be monitoring our Real America's Voice cameras are at the White House, and our microphones will be there as well to go straight to you the minute that conference begins.
It's going to be in the East Room.
But understand, this is all about Ukraine, and I'm sure it's going to be about tariffs.
As well, so we need to understand.
President Trump, Secretary Besant, Secretary Hegseth, VP Vance, the envoys that were sent to Ukraine two weeks ago now, have made an incredible, incredible impact on this war.
Which, by the way, for those of you following, today is the third anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war.
So this is the day the tanks rolled across.
You can sit there and on one side you hear the mainstream establishment narrative.
Unprovoked war, unprovoked war, unprovoked war.
But of course we all, and of course by the way, and I'll just say this, right?
The war was started when Russian tanks were rolled in.
That's when it crossed from a disagreement into an actual war.
But of course this iteration of the war isn't the first This is something, by the way, that gets totally lost.
People will say, you hear the mainstream, they'll say, Yanukovych was Pro-Russia.
He was a pro-Russian president.
He reneged on a deal with the EU. They were going to do an economic deal and he totally reneged on it.
So he had to be driven out of office.
And yet Yanukovych was elected by all of Ukraine.
He was Ukrainian.
He is Ukrainian.
He's still alive.
So the fact that he was elected and then driven from office in a color revolution that received backing from the United States From liberals as well as conservatives.
John McCain was over there.
Lindsey Graham was over there.
Amy Klobuchar was over there.
Chris Murphy went over.
So you can see this going back and forth.
These guys were pushing for the overthrow of the president of Ukraine.
They got his overthrow.
He flees.
It's called the Maidan Revolution, and you can go look this up.
And that's what leads to the current situation here.
Because this process has not been stabilized.
I'm not going to say that there haven't been aggression on both sides.
What you have to point out is that every story has two sides to it.
Every argument has two sides to it.
You're going to sit there and say, oh, the Russians are this, this, this, this, this, and this.
I'm not even arguing that they're not.
But what I am going to say is you have to understand the story from where it began.
And that's why what President Trump, Peg Seth, and the rest of these guys are saying it's a complex situation.
It's just that.
Like any war, it's a complex situation.
Look, I would love if the world worked like a Marvel movie and you got to say, oh, these are the good guys and these are the bad guys and there's nothing else going on.
But that's exactly the kind of corporate globalist narrative that they want to put on everything.
As it turns out, the real world is a little bit more complicated than that.
And yes, there are serious interests at play here.
We're talking energy interests.
We're talking demographic interests.
We're talking seaport issues.
We're talking military issues.
All of those things, and all of them under the sun and more, went into Russia's decision to begin this war.
Okay?
All of that went in.
But you even have to go back a little bit further than just three years ago to understand that who went to the Munich Security Conference just one week, I think it was even less than a week, before Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine.
It was Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris went to that Munich Security Conference and she was the one pushing them to say, we are going to get Ukraine into NATO. And it was specifically this that the Russians had said, if you push for Ukraine into NATO, then we are going to wage war.
We will invade if you do this.
And Kamala Harris went and said, let's go and do that right now.
We've got a very special guest, by the way, I want to bring on for a couple of minutes until our break.
We're still, of course, waiting for President Trump and President Macron to come on.
But a guy who's got some incredible news, it is the CEO of Sticker Mule, Anthony Constantino, joining us.
What's up, Anthony?
What's going on there at the company today?
Hey, we're unveiling the first...
Official presidential monument to honor the moment that President Trump was shot and butler and defiantly, courageously stood up, put his fist in the air and gave everybody a tremendous sense of calm and pride in the face of sniper fire.
And it was the beginning of my entrance into politics.
I spoke up immediately following that bullet hitting his ear and spoke up.
Defended the president, sent an endorsement to my 5 million customers.
It went viral.
And then I put up a beautiful sign that said, vote for Trump.
And shortly after that, I announced I was going to do a monument, too.
But we actually commissioned the monument before the election.
We commissioned it a month or two before the election.
And it's finally done.
It's done by an incredible sculptor.
And we're going to be giving it to the president.
But first, we're going to unveil it here in New York.
So this is incredible.
So you're unveiling it there.
Is that your lobby where it's going to be staying at, or are you going to be taking it other places?
We're going to unveil it.
In my warehouse, it's going to look beautiful.
We've got curtains.
It's going to look really fancy.
We did a big election night party there, and it was incredible with thousands of people.
So we're going to have a big crowd on Tuesday to unveil it.
And then we might do a little tour.
I was debating the idea, but I want to get approval from the Trump organization, who we're gifting it to, if we can do it or not.
But it might be fun to bring it to New York City and rile up some Democrats down there and make them embrace the fact that people love the president.
By the way, you were talking about the situation in Ukraine, one of the reasons I'm such a big supporter of the president.
You can see my shirt said Trump for peace.
He's the one that's going to negotiate peace.
He's better at negotiations than just about anybody.
And the Democrats are the ones that, you know, really led us into the situation where so many people have died because of their inability to negotiate effectively.
Well, and that's exactly right.
You know, President Trump, he campaigned on this.
He said, look, if World War III is on the ballot, we're going to be turning it off.
And people don't like the way that he's conducting himself.
But that's exactly what he said he would do, isn't it?
Exactly.
You have to talk tough to negotiate.
You can't be a nicer.
Sometimes you don't get what you want.
I'm learning that very quickly because I'm dealing with some rhinos up here in upstate New York that don't want me to enter Congress.
Why don't you be nice to everybody?
I said, well, there's a lot of, whatever, I shouldn't say the word, kiss asses in politics.
And, you know, not so many people are tough.
We need more tough people.
And you don't negotiate and win if you're not tough.
We got a quick break coming up here.
We're still waiting on President Trump and President Macron to come out there.
So give us one sec.
We'll be right back with Anthony Constantino from Peter Mule.
We'll be right back.
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CEO of Sticker Mule, Anthony Constantino, is our guest.
Anthony, you got to tell me some more about this story behind how it was that you guys built this incredible statue of President Trump, the first statue of President Trump that I think has ever been made, as far as I can tell.
Did you crowdfund this?
Was this something that you funded?
How did it come to be?
I moved.
I moved very quickly and I self-funded it.
I put up a beautiful sign that said, vote for Trump very quickly.
The Democrats tried to throw me in jail over the sign.
I beat them in court.
And then the Democrat that tried to throw me in jail, he...
Went to Newsweek and he said, nobody supported my sign, that people didn't come out to support my sign.
Well, I had about 5,000 people that came to support me and my sign when I put it up.
I held my first rally for President Trump.
And I said, that wasn't a nice thing to say.
Let's do another rally.
So we did another rally.
Another 5,000 people came for my second rally.
And I wanted to surprise everybody.
I said, look, for everything you did for me, I'm going to do what I can to make us part of history.
I'm going to make upstate New York part of history.
And so I said, we're going to commission this.
Beautiful monument.
We're going to gift it to the president.
And I'm going to fight to bring the president right to where my sign is so he can come meet all the people one day.
And I think any event I get in Congress, which seems like it's going to happen, that's almost a guarantee at this point.
I think President Trump will eventually make his way up here.
Hopefully he will once I'm in Congress, once I'm campaigning.
Love to have him up here.
But we're going to be giving him this statue.
I already got word that he loves the statue.
And we're excited to give it to him.
And I'm making good of my promises to people.
I said I'm going to...
I'm going to get the statute done.
I'm going to unveil it here.
I'm going to make us part of the history of the Trump presidency, and thus far that's happening.
So walk me through, what is the timeline again for the race itself?
Because obviously this is regarding a special election.
Has Kathy Hochul come out?
I know she's been very busy all weekend attacking the Trump administration, but has she come out and actually set a date yet?
So that's up to the President and Speaker Johnson and Congresswoman Stefanik when she vacates.
So they're still having a conversation.
It's a fluid situation.
But the great news is we did our first poll, and I'm the frontrunner by a lot.
I'm the frontrunner by a lot, 40% in the polls.
Admittedly, I'm an honest person, so I'll say I'm tied with another guy, but the other guy's a big Trump hater, so he's not really an option.
The president's not going to want a Trump hater in Congress, so it's me and a Trump hater and a few other people that are at 5% or 6%, but my poll numbers are rising really quickly.
I'll probably be at 50% or 60% soon, of course.
The RINO establishment is fighting me, but they have to listen to the voters because the voters are going to be very upset if they don't have a guy like me fighting for them.
We need fighters.
President Trump.
Called New York State the most corrupt state in the union.
I'm learning very quickly.
He was right.
We have a lot of corruption in New York State.
A lot of complacency, too.
People don't want change here.
The Democrats like the corruption and the Republicans are maybe a little bit scared to fight them.
Now, what do you suppose that's for?
Is it just because it's this learned helplessness or what?
Because, I mean, we saw...
President Trump's results right there a couple of months ago and then Zeldin before that.
It looks as though Trump's brand of republicanism is actually something that New York State, obviously President Trump and New Yorker himself, is actually starting to embrace.
It's a great question and it's a simple answer.
It's called people want to protect their pocketbooks.
And so when you have an organization that's not performing.
When you have an organization that's not performing and you have a change agent like President Trump or myself that want to get in and fix things, the people that aren't performing that are making money off the political process, the rhinos or incompetent people, whatever you want to call them.
They're scared about their pocketbooks because they know if I get in, they might not have a job in the future.
And look what happened with President Trump at the national level.
How many people that were ineffective are now gone from the Republican Party?
We have an establishment at the national level.
We have an establishment at the state level.
It's obvious that New York State's a failing state.
It's going in a bad direction.
And it's going in a bad direction because there's bad leadership here.
So the people are looking to protect their pocketbooks.
Unfortunately, some of those people are Republicans.
They want to protect their pocketbooks because they know Congressman Constantino means there's going to be things changing.
And change means...
People that aren't good aren't going to be here anymore.
We're going to replace them with better people.
Anthony, where can people go to follow you and get more information, man?
The best thing is Facebook.
Look me up on social media, any of the networks.
I've got a very active presence on Facebook.
Go to VoteForAnthony.com.
All right.
Appreciate it.
to Anthony Constantino, CEO of Sticker Mule, the first ever statue of Trump.
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Thank you.
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We'll just wind the old Poso Wayback Machine here a little bit to remind you how the Biden administration act when all of the pipeline workers Got fired from their jobs and got laid off because of their policies.
And by the way, this isn't federal workers.
This is actual pipeline workers, blue collar workers, salt of the earth people that actually make this country run.
Let's go back and see how Jen Psaki reacted when she was informed that thousands of oil workers would be losing their jobs.
Thank you, Jen.
I do have a question on COVID, but first on energy.
When is it that the Biden administration is going to let the thousands of fossil fuel industry workers, whether it's pipeline workers or construction workers, who are either out of work or will soon be out of work because of a Biden EO, when it is and where it is that they can go for their green job?
And that is something the administration has promised.
There is now a gap.
So I'm just curious when that happens, when those people can count on that.
Well, I'd certainly welcome you to present your data of all the thousands and thousands of people who won't be getting a green job.
Maybe next time you're here, you can present that.
But you said that they would be getting green jobs, so I'm just asking when that happened.
Richard Trumka, who is a friend, longtime friend of Joe Biden, says about that day one Keystone EO, he says, had paired that more carefully with the thing that he did second by saying, here's where we are creating the jobs.
So there's partial evidence from Richard Trumka.
Well, you didn't include all of his interview.
Would you like to include the rest?
So how about this?
The Laborers International Union of North America said the Keystone decision will cost 1,000 existing union jobs and 10,000 projected construction jobs.
Well, what Mr. Trump also indicated in the same interview was that President Biden has proposed a climate plan with transformative investments and infrastructure and laid out a plan that will not only create millions of good union jobs, but also help tackle the climate crisis.
And as the President has indicated when he gave his primetime address to talk about the American Rescue Plan, he talked about his plans to also put forward a jobs plan in the weeks or months following.
And he has every plan.
But there are people living paycheck to paycheck.
There are now people out of jobs once the Keystone Pipeline stopped construction.
It's been 12 days since Gina McCarthy and John Kerry were here, and it's been 19 days since that EO. So what are these people who need money now?
When do they get their green job?
Well, the president and many Democrats and Republicans in Congress believe that investment in infrastructure, building infrastructure, that's international interests, and that boosts the U.S. economy, creates good-paying union jobs here in America, and advances our climate and clean energy goals are something that we can certainly work on doing together.
And he has every plan to share more about his details of that plan in the weeks ahead.
Well, there you go, Jen Psaki.
Jen Psaki.
Going and telling all the pipeline workers, telling them they can go and get green jobs.
You can go and get some green jobs.
More than happy to have that.
Don't worry about going down the mines.
Don't worry about laying pipes.
Don't worry about the construction jobs.
You're all going to be losing those.
By the way, there was another clip I posted up on X this morning of President Biden himself back in 2019 when he was talking about this.
And he was also asked, they said, look, These policies are clearly going to lead to people in these industries losing their jobs.
And he said, you can learn to program.
Learn to program.
He said, if you can go down to mine, you can learn to program.
If you can be a firefighter, you can learn to program.
And I spent the entire morning just digging up these clips of Biden.
Telling workers to go learn the program.
Jen Psaki, one of the more egregious ones, saying, go get green jobs.
And, you know, I love Ducey right there.
Where did they go to get the green jobs?
Did they just magically fall out of a hat?
No, of course, that's not actually what happened.
Joy Reid.
Joy Reid, who, my gosh, my gosh, I got to get the violin out for old Joy.
Got to get the violin out.
Joyless Reid is losing her job at MSNBC. I tried so hard.
I gave her so much content over the years.
She's the only person on MSNBC that's ever actually let me on her show all the way back in 2016. And she'll be losing her job the same way she lost her hair.
It's actually very sad.
But at the same time, I hope that she will be able to sit and reflect with herself just a little bit more about all the horrible things that she said and done that led her The situation she's currently in.
Also, by the way, should have stuck with the Trump hair, Joy.
Honestly, I like Joy with the Trump hair.
That was my favorite Joy.
My favorite one was her, but we found a video from her when I was going through the archives.
Found a video of Joy Reid where she was laughing and mocking police officers and firefighters who were being fired for not taking the COVID vaccine.
So think about that.
She was laughing.
Mocking them.
At the same time, by the way, she was also slandering them, talking about how police officers go and attack minorities and saying how this is some major problem in society.
But if you go and look at the FBI statistics, well, actually fine, that's not true.
Speaking of the FBI, by the way, had an interesting evening the other evening, last Friday night.
After a confirmation by a certain individual where, what can I say?
Folks, I went out with my brother, Kev, and we were hanging out with the Fed on Friday night.
That's right, myself, my brother, Kev Posobiec, hanging out with the Fed.
That's Kash Patel, a.k.a.
the director of the FBI. And he had an after-party and was gracious enough to invite us to be there and have us out.
I have to tell you, the team that they're putting together as well as the new deputy director, which news, of course, we all saw yesterday, Dan Bongino, being appointed to that position is going to be something that I think it's amazing because in addition to all the good that this team is going to do over at the FBI,
you just know that for all the bad folks at the FBI, all the bad people, It is going to drive them so completely insane that they're all going to flee the field offices.
Think of it.
All the field offices of the FBI now have to report to Dan Bongino and Kash Patel.
It's actually hilarious.
The field office directors, the ones that haven't been fired, by the way, are absolutely going to be out the door in two seconds.
And it's incredible to see.
Folks, patriots in full control.
What else can I say?
Patriots in full and absolute control.
And we're not going back to the way things were.
But at the same time, look, as fun as it is to troll the left, and we love doing that here on the program, and we all know I certainly love to do that on X, We've got to get serious, too.
We have to remember that we inherited, the right inherited, and was elected to solve the crises that were going on, multiple crises in this country.
Crises of a three-tier Justice Department.
I've told you so many times, I believe it's actually three tiers, not just two, but three.
The tier for the Democrats and the elites, the tier for the regular folks, and the tier for anyone associated with the right or Trump.
That's on the justice front.
On the military front, military, national security front, you got Secretary Hegseth, you got Secretary, excuse me, Director of Tulsi Gabbard now.
You've also got Pam Bondi at the Attorney General.
And on the health front, you've got Secretary of Health, RFA. And Tanya Tay up on Twitter was, or X, was tweeting earlier.
So remember how Elon Musk has put out this email saying, hey, you have to list five things that you did this week.
Tanya Tay was joking.
She said, how long before RFK sends an email to all Americans?
List five foods that you ate this week.
Send us five foods you ate this week.
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All right, we're watching now.
By the way, we're still awaiting President Trump and President Macron to arrive there in the East Room of the White House for a presidential press conference.
I'm hearing that it looks like it might be starting soon here.
We've got it up in the corner.
Could be coming any second now.
Of course, we're waiting for them.
I think I see Stephen Chung, the drill.
Stephen Chung, the drill, is there.
Guys, can we get that up?
Let's get that up on the screen.
There's larger so people could see it as well.
We've got Secretary Besant.
As well, he's in discussion.
I think I see Mike Waltz, the National Security Director, and J.D. Vance is back to us, and as well as, I think that's Steve Witkoff in the far back, in the rear.
So, look, you're seeing these conversations, and this is something for folks to remember, that you really do see.
The entire administration working together very, very closely.
This isn't something where certain people are one angle, certain people are on another.
Secretary Besant there, by the way, with French ancestry, so it makes sense for him to.
I believe he is a scion of the Huguenots, if I have that correctly, who resided down in Charleston.
And, of course, bringing the entire team together.
That's what President Trump has done.
That's what the team is doing now.
now and we await the joint press conference between president trump and president macron here in washington dc moments away we're going to do a quick break right back if they come we'll go directly to them jack posobiec our three of the charlie kirk show his audience here on the salem radio network the real america's voice we'll be right back of course
I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
All right, Jack Posobiec, Washington, D.C., will take you now to the White House, where President Trump and President Macron have begun their press conference.
Well, thank you very much, everyone.
Great honor to be here with my friend.
I'm delighted to welcome President Macron back to the White House.
We've been together quite often, but not that often.
In the White House, we honored the President, First Lady of France, not so long ago.
It was a beautiful evening, and we will not soon forget it.
It was a beautiful day and evening, and many fond memories.
I also want to thank Emmanuel for hosting me in Paris last December, after a historic election win, to witness the reopening of the spectacular Notre Dame Cathedral, where You did an outstanding job in bringing it back together.
That was a sad day watching that burn.
And five years later, you had it up, and it was — they say more beautiful than it was before.
So I think that's a great achievement.
That was not easy.
France is America's oldest ally.
Our cherished partnership has been a force for freedom, prosperity, and peace from the very beginning.
We're now working on some — Very interesting developments, one in particular, as you know, the war between Russia and Ukraine.
In the American Revolution, French support helped us to seize our destiny as an independent nation.
In the First and Second World Wars, our citizens shed blood together on the battlefields of Europe.
And I'll never forget joining President Macron six years ago on the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
That was some day.
The purpose of our meeting today is to end another battle, a really horrible one, a war, something that we haven't seen since the Second World War, that is ravaging European soil, the deadliest and most destructive conflict that one can imagine.
I've seen the pictures, I've seen the satellite photos and lots of other photos, and it's a horrible thing that's happening.
Thousands of people are dying a week.
This very day is the third anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, which would never have happened if I was president.
That was not going to happen.
The horrors of this gruesome and bloody war can scarcely be overestimated.
Hundreds of thousands of people, Russians and Ukrainians in particular, have needlessly died.
An entire generation of Ukrainians and Russian men has been decimated.
1,000-year-old cities Have been turned into rubble.
Those beautiful spires that you used to see there, they were most beautiful in the world, they say, are lying in heaps of rubble, blasted to smithereens.
It's time to end this bloodletting and restore peace, and I think we're going to do it.
We've had some great conversations, including with Russia.
Since my return to the White House, we've made more progress toward that goal in one month than Occurred in the past three years.
And I've spoken with both President Putin and President Zelensky.
And again, a lot of good things toward peace are happening.
Moving it, I think, pretty quickly.
Last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Michael Waltson, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, conducted successful talks in Saudi Arabia with The delegation from Russia, and I'd like to thank the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the King, and Mohammed, great people.
They're really working hard to get this done.
Our focus is on achieving a ceasefire as soon as possible, and ultimately a permanent peace.
My meeting with President Macron today was another important step forward in that.
Sphere, because he's been very much involved right from the beginning in trying to get it over whether we're going to get it done.
I believe that Emmanuel agrees with me on many of the most important issues.
Chief, among them, is this is the right time.
It may be the only time.
You know, that's a very interesting and horrible situation, and that could evolve into a Third World War.
We're not going to let that happen.
It should have never started, but it did.
What a mess.
What a horrible, bloody mess.
I'm also pleased that President Macron agrees that the cost and burden of securing the peace must be borne by the nations of Europe, not alone by the United States.
And Europe must take that central role in assuring long-term security of Ukraine, which they want to do.
And that's not a very big step.
A big step is what's going to happen over the next few weeks.
The United States has put up far more aid for Ukraine than any other nation.
Hundreds of billions of dollars.
We've spent more than 300 billion, and Europe has spent about 100. 100 billion, that's a big difference.
And at some point, we should equalize.
But hopefully, we won't have to worry about that.
We have other things happening that maybe take that out of the realm of necessity.
And while we've Given vast amounts of military aid and money in form of grants, much of Europe's contribution has been economic relief, structured as loans for which they'll be repaid.
Like the Europeans, I believe that taxpayers and the United States also deserve to recoup the colossal amounts of money that we've sent.
The previous administration never even thought of that.
They didn't think of a lot of things like Why did they let it start in the first place?
That is why we must have an agreement with Ukraine on critical minerals and rare earths and various other things as security.
And I think that that's happening.
I think we've made a lot of progress.
I had a report just given to me before walking in that we've made Emmanuel a great deal of progress toward getting there.
I've been elected by the American people to restore common sense to Washington.
And indeed, to the world.
And I believe strongly that it's in the best interest of the United States, the best interest in Europe, the best interest of Ukraine, and indeed, the best interest of Russia to stop the killing now and bring the world to peace.
My administration is making a decisive break with the foreign policy values of the past administration and, frankly, the past.
I ran against a very foolish foreign policy establishment, and their recklessness has led to the death of many, many people.
Under our administration, we're forging a new path that promotes peace around the world.
And when I left office for the first administration, first term, we had no wars.
We had no problems.
We didn't have October 7th with Israel.
We didn't have Russia and Ukraine going at it.
We didn't have the problems in other parts of the Middle East.
We didn't have inflation.
It was a whole different world.
And you know what else?
We didn't have millions of people pouring through our borders, many of them criminals released from other nations and put right into our land.
Murderers and drug dealers, gangs.
We didn't have any of that.
It's a different time.
But now we have it and we're fixing it.
We'll fix it all up.
We'll get it done as quickly as possible.
And we've made a great deal of progress.
People are saying it was the best month for a president in Our country's history.
I hope that's right, but I feel it's right.
We've done a lot of things in a very short period of time, four weeks.
As I've said before, it's my hope that my greatest legacy, however, will be as a peacemaker and a unifier.
I want to bring peace, not war.
I thank President Macron for joining us today in this urgent work we're doing.
And we have some wonderful people up front right here that have Worked so hard.
Steve Witkoff, thank you very much.
Michael Walsh, thank you.
Scott, thank you very much.
And J.D., thank you.
They've really done a job.
They've worked very hard.
It's like a real passion to get this war ended.
And I'd like to now invite Emmanuel to say a few words, and then we'll take questions.
And again, Emmanuel, it's a great honor to have you with us at the White House.
Thank you very much, please.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, dear Donald.
Ministers, ladies and gentlemen.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be saying a few words in French.
Thank you very much, Mr. President, dear Donald, for your hospitality and for this visit.
As you mentioned, we have had the opportunity to meet over the past few years.
Since your first term, we've been able to discuss Matters in Paris and also here at the White House and it has always been a great joy to do that and I would like to commend you and thank you.
Mr. President, for extending this friendship to France and taking part in the ceremony at Notre Dame that you mentioned before.
It was a great honor for the French people to reopen the cathedral to the rest of the world.
And your presence was a testament to that friendship.
As the President said, this friendship dates back to the Revolutionary War since the beginning of the United States.
We've needed to.
We've been able to come together and be on the right side.
We've been able to be united to defend peace and sovereignty, namely in the two world wars that marked the 20th century, from Lafayette to Pershing and to the many Americans who landed on Omaha Beach.
And we spoke.
Earlier before, and you mentioned that one of those gentlemen was able to visit you here, one of the veterans.
This is part of history, which puts us in the world that we are in today.
And as the President just said, there are many challenges in this world.
And over the past few days, we have one main objective, which is the geopolitical situation.
Mr. President, I really wish to thank you for making changes to your schedule to meet with us so quickly.
I think we've made very substantive steps forward during our discussions, and this is a major step in what we're experiencing today.
We had a video conference with all of the G7 leaders, which was an opportunity for us to discuss.
This matter three days after the Russian war in Ukraine and to express our support for President Zelenskyy to the Ukrainian people, but also to speak and share about our desire for a lasting peace.
This is what we have spoken about very forcibly over the past few weeks.
We thought that this War was only going to last a few weeks when it broke out in 2022. We admire greatly the courage of the Ukrainian people.
And, Mr. President, I wish to thank you for this.
You mentioned that there are responsibilities on Europe's side.
And indeed, we have invested $128 billion in aid to Ukraine and the Ukrainians.
Ukraine has been able to hold the front of our collective security.
It's fought over these past few years for its independence and for its sovereignty, but also for our collective security, because I think that no one in this room wants to live in a world where it's the law of the strongest and international borders can be violated from one day to the next by anyone.
Over the past few hours, and as you mentioned this, Mr. President, we've been able to see a few things take shape.
First of all, allow me to commend you on your decision to work with President Zelensky and to conclude this agreement that's so important for the US and Ukraine on rare earths, critical minerals, but also having substantive conversations with President Zelensky during this key phase.
of achieving this deal, which is a major commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty, and I think that's very commendable.
We also have a shared desire to build peace.
We will have this responsibility.
This is 10 years after the war started in Crimea.
We saw the events in the Donbas region and along the northern part of the country.
We want to save lives.
We want to bring prisoners back and bring back families and children because there's also a humanitarian tragedy affecting the Ukrainian people.
We had lengthy discussions with the president and we spoke about our desire.
To bring an end to conflicts, to have a truce that is measurable, verifiable, and that enables negotiation of a lasting peace, what we will discuss not only Ukraine's reconstruction, its territories, but also the security guarantees, meaning maintaining peace over the long term.
As I said to the President, we've experienced peace accords that were only Cease fires without ensuring security guarantees, Minsk 1 and 2. And we want to make sure this doesn't happen again.
And I know that the President has expressed the desire to be a player for peace in the region.
I've spoken with some 30 European leaders and allies in recent days.
We want to bring together these allies and share the same vision.
This peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine.
It must not mean a ceasefire without guarantees.
This peace must allow for Ukrainian sovereignty and allow Ukraine to negotiate with other stakeholders regarding the issues that affects it, rather.
But it is also a country...
In which we need to shoulder our responsibilities so that we ensure security and stability for Ukraine and for the entire region and for us Europeans.
This is an existential issue.
We also spoke about these issues at length.
With the President, we've worked with President Zelensky and gotten to some of the details of the various phases of the negotiation.
And we've also been able to speak about some of this work with our British partners to talk about deployments of peace forces on Ukrainian soil, which are part of these security guarantees.
Other countries are ready to join in this effort.
Solidarity and support from the U.S. will be crucial to this.
And I thank you, Mr. President, for beginning to work with us on this issue.
And the agreement that you are preparing to sign with Ukraine and with all these discussions we've had are very solid guarantees that we are understood, that we have the same wish, peace as soon as possible, lasting, solid peace for everyone.
The renewal of an international situation where we are all able to shoulder our responsibilities, Europeans shouldering their responsibilities alongside their American allies who will shoulder their own responsibilities.
I also wanted to be very clear, Mr. President, about Europe's commitment.
We have committed to building a lasting peace.
As Europeans, we have committed to being stakeholders in these security guarantees.
And we are also well aware that Europeans need to do more for security in Europe, for defense in Europe, and to more fairly share the security burden that your country has been carrying for so many years.
Mr. President, you know how much Friendship I show towards you and I have towards you since your first term.
Europe is very clear-eyed about this.
We know what we need to do as Europeans, given the threats surrounding us and the responsibilities that we must shoulder.
We spoke about the Versailles agenda, which allowed the Europeans to take a historic step and increase their investments.
Europeans are ready to do even more.
And to go even farther.
And several leaders said that to me before I came here to meet you.
Mr. President, dear Donald, you spoke about this peace through strength.
We fully share that because we must recognize the sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people and what we owe to them.
The President and I also spoke about economic matters and our desire to see more prosperity in the United States and in Europe.
We had discussions, which will be carried on by our teams, our ministers and secretaries, to flesh out some of those ideas.
But the idea is to have fair competition and no bias within competition between our industries.
The American and European economies are extremely intertwined.
Some 1.5 billion in trade, a trillion rather, in goods and services, and I know you've spoken about wanting to look at the balance of payments.
We also have a trade deficit, and I know that we need to look not only At goods, but also digital items and goods which you export.
And we want to make a sincere commitment towards fair competition where we have smooth trade and more investments.
You already invest a great deal in France, and France is the fifth largest investor in the United States.
And I would like to...
Recognize here all of the American investors who announced investments, some $120 billion that were announced at the AI Summit.
This is our wish.
We want to have more prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic.
We have a shared agenda in that regard.
We also spoke about the Middle East, among other subjects.
And here, again, we have the same desire.
We don't want to see Iran obtain nuclear weapons.
We don't want...
Or rather, we want an approach with partners in the region that we can trust.
Given Iran's nuclear activities, we want to limit its ballistic capabilities and avoid any type of regional destabilization.
With respect to Syria and Iraq, we also share the same desire.
We don't want to see Islamic terrorist groups resume any of their activities because for some time our armies have very bravely been engaged in the Gulf as you have fled.
And contributions have been significant and helped stability in the region.
And I say this with great sincerity.
France was affected by a terrorist attack in 2015, which was linked to the terrorist activity in Syria.
And we are in that region at your side to work for more security.
Ladies and gentlemen, we had extremely productive discussions.
This morning during the conference and we spoke with our ministers and counselors and advisors and I wish to say after speaking with President Trump I am fully believed that there is a path forward.
We share the same beliefs.
We know what work needs to be done and in the weeks to come we will work on that.
Our teams will come together in various formats to make sure that we have this solid Lasting peace with great strength.
Mr. President, thank you so much for welcoming me here today.
Thank you so much for these productive discussions and for your commitment.
Thank you, dear Donald.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Thank you very much.
Brian, would you like to ask a question?
Go ahead.
I just want to touch upon, real quickly, the Harvard poll that came out that had, thank you very much, the Harvard poll that came out, had you up nine plus points, and all of your agenda that you ran on, you're accomplishing that.
You've got the support of the American people, including stopping the war in Ukraine.
If you can comment on the latest Harvard poll, I appreciate that.
Well, I was honored by it.
It was a big poll, and it's usually a poll that leans on the other side of things, the other side of the world, so to speak.
But the Harvard Poll is a respected poll, and it has us not only leading, but leading by a lot and leading on every single issue that we've talked about.
And as I said, we've become the party of common sense.
And I think that's a very important element now, common sense, because what's happening...
In the world, and even in this country, some of the things that took place, many of them are now canceled, and the rest are being canceled as we speak.
But we've moved very rapidly and, I think, very effectively.
So I was honored by that poll.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Go ahead.
Please, go ahead.
Mr. President, you said before that you would like to see Russia.
Yes.
Go ahead.
Are there any conditions that you want to meet or to get in Iran?
And your meeting in Saudi Arabia, your meeting in Saudi Arabia with President Putin, Will that happen regardless of any progress on the Ukrainian side?
Yeah, I think the meeting in Saudi Arabia was a fantastic one.
We met with the crown prince, who is a fantastic young guy.
He's young, but with great imagination and tremendously respected all over the world.
And he goes right to the king, and the king is incredible.
I've gotten to be friends with both of them very much, and they want to see this ended.
And they're going all out to make sure that it is ended.
I think Russia, likewise, I've spoken to President Putin, and my people are dealing with him constantly, and his people in particular.
And they want to do something.
I mean, that's what I do.
I do deals.
My whole life is deals.
That's all I know is deals.
And I know one...
Somebody wants to make it, and when somebody doesn't, I will say this, before I came here, there was no communication with Russia whatsoever, and Russia wasn't answering calls.
They were not talking to anybody.
They wouldn't talk to anybody, and people sort of accepted that as being that they want to go forward and just keep going without stop.
But when I got here, one of the first calls I made was to President Putin, and we were treated with great respect, and they want to...
They want to end this war.
So that's a big thing.
Because I didn't know if I could say that, but it's a big thing.
They want to do it.
And the group in the front row that I introduced, they're all very active in it.
And we're working on deals right now, transactions right now.
And in particular, the big one is to get the war stopped, whether it's ceasefire or direct to an agreement.
I'd like to go directly to an agreement, but ceasefire will always happen a little bit quicker.
And every day, you're saving thousands, or at least hundreds, but thousands, in some cases, lives.
So we want to see if we can get that done very quickly.
Yes, for the President, please.
Thank you.
Cindy Corbat, a nice correspondent based in Paris.
Question for both of you, actually.
Mr. Macron, you were one of the last Western leaders to speak to Putin before Ukraine's invasion.
What advice, what recommendation could you make to President Trump to make sure that this time you can get strong enough government to make sure that you can get strong enough Guarantees, sorry, from Putin to get a peace deal that lasts this time.
And Mr. President Trump, what makes you think you can trust Putin in those negotiations?
Thank you.
Look, I will never give any advice to President Trump.
We have friendly and trustful discussion, but my experience...
I think it's good to have a discussion with other leaders, especially when you disagree.
I stopped my discussion with President Putin after Bucha and the war crimes because I considered that we had nothing to get from him at that time.
Now there is a big change because there is a new U.S. administration.
So this is a new context.
So there is good reason for President Trump to re-engage.
With President Putin.
But my experience is the following, and I shared it with President Trump and the team.
In 2014, our predecessors negotiated peace with President Putin.
But because of the lack of guarantees, and especially security guarantees, President Putin violated this peace.
And I had several discussions, especially beginning of 2022, several times, seven hours with President Putin.
Fifteen days before the launch of the attack, it denied everything, but we didn't have security guarantees.
So this is why being strong and having deterrence capacities is the only way to be sure it will be respected.
And I insisted on that, and this is why I believe that the U.S. has the capacity to do so.
And this is why I think we should never say, I will never send it in boots on the ground because you give a blank check to violate any type of commitment.
So I think it's good to have discussion.
I think it's useful to have negotiation.
I think it's super important to go to the peace.
But my strong point was to say, let's try to get something first which can be assessed, checked and verified.
And let's be sure that we build sufficient guarantees on the short run.
And this is where we are ready to be engaged.
As for France, a lot of my European colleagues are ready to be engaged.
But we do need this American backup because this is part of the credibility of the security guarantees.
And this is our collective deterrence capacity.
And I have the feeling that the President has this capacity.
The benefit of Russia to make a deal.
And I feel that we'll do that.
It is what it is.
Again, it's a war that should have never been started.
It's a war that would not have been started if I were president.
But it did start, and it's at a terrible level where cities are burned down and shot down to the ground.
It looks like demolition sites, a whole big pile of demolition sites.
And we've got to get it stopped.
Too many people.
Too much agony.
The whole culture is destroyed.
When you rip down some of those ancient, really ancient or near-ancient buildings, it's so sad to see.
But I think it's very much to the benefit of this tremendous distrust on both sides.
That's why it's good that I'm coming in now.
But I think it's to the very much benefit of Russia to make a deal and to go on with leading Russia in a very positive way.
That's what you have to do.
But I really believe that he wants to make a deal.
Maybe wrong, but I believe he wants to make a deal.
Yeah, go ahead, please.
Mr. President, next week there's a key deadline for your Canada and Mexico territory.
I believe those countries have done enough on the border to stop those from taking effect.
And for President Macron, I'm wondering if you believe that this critical minerals deal with Ukraine represents a de facto We're on time with the tariffs and it seems like that's moving along very rapidly.
We've been mistreated very badly by many countries, not just Canada and Mexico.
We've been taken advantage of.
We were led by, in some cases, fools, because anybody that would sign documents like they signed, where they were able to take advantage of the American people, like has happened over the last long period of time, except for a little four-year period that took place four years ago.
But anybody that would agree to allow this to happen to our country should be ashamed of themselves.
No, the tariffs are going forward.
On time, on schedule.
This is an abuse that took place for many, many years.
And I'm not even blaming the other countries that did this.
I blame our leadership for allowing it to happen.
I mean, you know, who can blame them if they made these great deals with the United States, took advantage of the United States on...
On manufacturing, on just about everything.
Every aspect that you can imagine they took advantage of.
I look at some of these agreements, I'd read them at night, and I'd say, who would ever sign a thing like this?
So the tariffs will go forward, yes.
And we're going to make up a lot of territory.
All we want is reciprocal.
We want reciprocity.
We want to have the same.
So if somebody charges us, we charge them.
It's very simple.
It'll be very good for our country.
Our country will be extremely liquid and rich again.
Plus, we're doing other things, as you know.
We're finding tremendous waste, fraud, and abuse at levels that nobody thought possible.
You're seeing what's going on.
And that was also part of the Harvard poll.
Do you agree with what President Trump is doing with Elon and others that are looking for the waste, fraud, and abuse?
The numbers were staggering.
It was like 70% to 2%.
Everybody wants to find out.
They don't like it.
And, you know, the radical left, or whoever it may be, starts screaming about the Constitution.
But it has nothing to do with the Constitution.
It has to do with fairness to this country.
It has to do with being ripped off.
And when you read the things that all of these billions, and I mean many billions, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on...
That's all you have to do is stand up here and read them.
I could stand up all day and read the kind of things where we're spending all of this money.
The good news is that when you think of how rich a nation we can be when we get rid of this, you know, sometimes you'll buy a company and you'll see it was really well run.
They accounted for every penny.
Well, not much you can do there.
You got yourself a bad deal.
This one is the exact opposite.
Tremendous fraud.
Tremendous waste.
And when you think of what it is, you know, Elon uses an expression, caring.
If we had people that cared, just cared a little bit when they did contracts, when they negotiated with outside vendors on behalf of the United States, that's what I'm doing now.
I'm negotiating for the people of the United States.
So we're doing a great job of it, I will say.
We found it'll be hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud and abuse.
Thank you.
Please.
Look, I think this discussion is a very important one.
First, because it's important for the US, and it will be a good occasion for a first very important meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky.
Second, I think there is a lot of economic upside on both sides.
And third, de facto, there is a recognition of Ukrainian sovereignty, a recognition of the Ukrainian interests, and this is de facto a very important alignment of interests.
Now the security guarantees will be negotiated in due time in a full-fledged package of peace security.
But this peace, as it is now written and negotiated, and as this meeting is scheduled, is an important step forward, full-fledged peace agreement.
Mr. President Trump, President Macron.
To make a deal with Putin.
So when you do a deal, it's a win-win deal.
What are you giving to him and what is he going to give you to America?
And I was impressed by the way you referred to Notre Dame and that you were impressed by the reconstruction of Notre Dame.
A lot of Americans have sent money to Paris to participate to the reconstruction of Notre Dame.
As a president of the United States, are you going to contribute to the reconstruction of Ukraine?
Et Monsieur le Président Macron.
President Macron, what for you is the main area of progress in your meeting with President Trump?
Can you confirm that there is an agreement to send European peacekeeping troops?
Will France participate in that?
How many troops?
What would they be doing?
Would this represent a great danger to send French and European troops to Ukraine?
I guess it's a little strange question, because you asked whether or not we're going to, on behalf of the United States, contribute to Ukraine.
I mean, we're in there for about $350 billion.
I think that's a pretty big contribution.
I do appreciate the first part of your question, however, because I think they've done an incredible job with the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
I think the president has done.
I know he headed it up, and I know how hard he worked, and it took a period of time, but really not a long period of time, considering what that was, so delicate, so beautiful.
And I was there, and I saw the work, and I'm very good at construction.
I know good construction.
I know bad construction.
They did a beautiful job, and this man has to be given a lot of credit for that.
It's an incredible cathedral.
Most people thought it couldn't be saved, and if it was, it would have to be built in a different form.
And we didn't want to see a different form.
We wanted to see the same form that you built.
So I just want to congratulate you.
That was an amazing job.
I don't think you've gotten enough credit for it.
Someday you will.
Someday you will.
Thank you, Donald.
Merci beaucoup.
Thank you very much.
To go back to your question, today's discussion showed several areas of progress.
First, we have been working a great deal with President Zelensky to have a proposal that's acceptable to Ukraine.
President Trump has confirmed that he will be meeting with President Zelensky very soon to finalize the agreement on critical minerals and rare earths and to speak together about that matter.
That's a very important step forward.
The second thing is that during our discussions, we were able to go into some of the details about the proposal that we have just made to have a truce.
A piece and be able to measure that and then structure our discussions on that basis.
France and several other European countries, along with Ukraine, are hard at work to build this lasting peace with very specific points, including security guarantees, the territories that belong to Ukraine, the issue of reconstruction, the economy, and critical minerals.
We've been able to go into The details of those proposals.
The third area of progress, which really mark a turning point, is the fact that we were able to talk about the details of the security guarantees.
And the president has shown this over the past few days, and he said so a moment ago.
We want peace.
He wants peace.
We want peace swiftly, but we don't want an agreement that is weak.
The fact that there are Europeans that are ready to engage to provide for these security guarantees.
And now there's a clear American message that the U.S., as an ally, is ready to provide that solidarity for that approach.
That's a turning point, in my view.
And that is one of the great areas of progress that we've made during this trip and during this discussion.
When it comes to troops, in the past...
A year ago, specifically, we saw a reason to talk about sending troops for strategic regions.
Today, when we talk about troops, we're talking about sending them in after we've negotiated a lasting peace.
And once we have that solid, lasting peace that's part of an agreement signed by Ukraine, signed by Russia.
And for which we will provide the guarantees.
Then at that point, and recently France has worked with the UK to provide its contributions.
We've worked on plans, we've worked with our militaries, not to go to the front lines, not to go into occupied territories, but as a show of support to show that we have a negotiated peace signed by both sides, and that is a peace we will preserve.
So these would be peaceful deployments of troops, not for combat.
These would be deployments of an assurance force.
They would be limited, but they show solidarity.
I've also spoken with all of our allies, and there are European and non-European allies who are ready and willing to take part in that effort.
Some countries have helped Ukraine maintain its military capabilities in terms of the number of soldiers it has, equipment, whereas others have provided logistical support on the ground.
The question is whether or in what form the U.S. will contribute and during our discussions...
And during the discussions with Russia, we've understood that this would be acceptable to Russia, and that's a very important area of progress.
And that means that in this context, the Europeans will shoulder their part of the burden, their share of the burden.
We have a strong alliance that we've built over the decades.
We have our solidarity, and we have deterrence capacities.
What does it mean?
Would it be dangerous?
If there is an agreement signed by Ukraine and Russia, thanks to the efforts of President Trump, and if we provide the guarantees and Russia violates the agreement, then it would be in conflict with everyone who is engaged in the peace process.
And that is a change.
That was something we did not see in the past.
That's not what we saw in 2014. So that is the real...
Change that we're marking.
We have this deterrence capacity on the American side.
We have the capacity for engagement on the European side.
And that's something we're going to continue working on together.
It's not dangerous, but it's credible.
Less dangerous than things that could happen in the long term.
And I think this is what we need to do to ensure security.
And I say this very clearly.
We're also talking about security for Europeans.
I've been saying this for weeks now.
Now, if we do not guarantee the security of this territory within Europe, then how can we guarantee our own security for one and all?
We live just 1,500 kilometers from Ukraine, and the Germans and Polish are even closer.
So our collective security is important.
We need to answer this call for Europeans to be more engaged and Americans will be there still in solidarity.
Europeans are working for their collective security.
But I really think this was a turning point today in our discussions.
