Macron: Trump has realised Putin has been lying to him

Let's see if Trump reverts to his old position again in a couple of days.
I don't trust anything Trump says, he also said to multiple major European leaders, that he would sanction Russia if they didn't agree to a ceasefire.
A week has gone by, and as usual Trump has done nothing to help Ukraine.

Trump will never directly help Ukraine. He simply won't. Best he'll do is stop helping Putin. Even that's a far off "if".
- “There are no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the British, nor by the French, nor by us, nor by the Americans,”
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/germany-and-ukraines-other-allies-scrap-range-limits-on-arms-sent-to-kyiv
- depends on how scared of putin, trump is from time to time. many times trumps was ghostly white after "talking" to putin, when something goes bad for putin.
He will forget by tomorrow.
It's all an act. Putin let him know that he's about to start bombing cities, and told HitlerPig to verbally condemn it, but do nothing else. It gives him the ability to say that he's not in Putin's pocket, after all, he condemned the Ukrainian bombing.
Talk is cheap, especially Political talk, and ESPECIALLY HitlerPig talk.

The best case scenario is that Trump really was such a moron as to believe Putin wanted peace and now feels betrayed and does a 180 on Ukraine policy. Much more likely he will stay the course on screwing Ukraine.

I think it's less of "Putin wanted peace", but that "Putin is amenable to peace if he gets everything he wants", which might have even been true before the Russian economy got so wrecked that stopping the war would crash it.

I admire the take that Trump is able to realize stuff.

But I'm not very hopefull

It's like doing a mirror test on a wild animal
He'll forget in day and believe Putin again

It is just time to play both sides and make it out like DT is reasonable. He has done nothing to reign in Russia and I highly doubt he would do anything but a symbolic gesture.

This is just a White House propaganda piece. Make people doubt his allegiance to Russia. A big waste of our time, but that appears to be the point.

They were even spared from the "universal" tariffs lmao
Propaganda is useful. It might be wrong, but there is a specific reason they're saying it.

Is he talking about the actual US President Donald Trump?

I don't think he has the mental capacity to realize anything

this is strategic. By appealing to his ego, he can tell trump that putin has been lying, while calling trump smart for realizing it instead of calling him gullible for not realizing it.
- Ah, and he won't be able to realize that either.
  But I have a feeling when more countries with well respected leaders say the same thing, and state the same thing to appeal to his ego, it will further cement the idea in Trump's mind, that Putin "cheated him".
  I don't have high expectations, but let's see how it plays out.
  But to be clear, if something else were to remove Trump from being the problem I wouldn't oppose that either.

Trump is such a fucking gullible, demented moron. The only people dumber than him are the people that voted for him.

Yeah, but Zelenskyy didn’t wear a suit or thank trump himself publicly for the hundredth time, so I’m sure trump is still team Putin.

lol

Macron hasn't realised Trump is lying to him

I doubt it. But it'd be nice.

Please.

The sole redeeming factor about Trump is being extremely unpredictable. He is a quintessentially ignorant American in that way. No one can reliably control him, he will flip-flop between diametrically opposed positions at will.

Hopefully chaos impersonated will turn on Putin for a while. Hell, if Trump continues to ignore legal precedent he may be able to harm Russia more than Biden ever did.

The sole redeeming factor
yeah I really don't see this as a redeeming factor but I don't disagree with the overall premise
- Fair, "positive aspect" would've been significantly better wording. There's nothing Trump can do to redeem himself unless he does an inverse John Fetterman.
if Trump continues to ignore legal precedent
Can you really be said to ignore something if you are totally ignorant of its existence?

French President Emmanuel Macron believes US President Donald Trump has finally realised that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has been deceiving him.

Oh my no... The cognitive dissonance will take over. Trump will be back to blaming Ukraine and talking about how wonderful Putin is again in short order

Yeah that's a bit of a slap in the face really.

I kinda think it’s a game. Putin told trump to say it so they can act like they’re not in bed together

This is my 2 cents on it as well.

Anyone who believes this headline is dumber than Trump himself.

I do believe Macron said that. What else is the headline stating?
"I believe that President Trump has realised that when President Putin told him he was ready for peace, he was lying," Macron emphasised

So when Putin says "I love you" after Trump sucks his dick, he's lying?

It's hard to tell when, instead of kissing him on the lips, he throws a towel at his face

When they have the kompromat, they even let you be pretend mad from time to time. Talk is cheap though.

Guess Putin forgot to give Trumpie a plane.

Doesn't need to. He has blackmail instead. He'll call Trump within the week and Trump will suddenly be kissing Putin's ass once again.
- Nah, Trump is just intimidated by Putin. He's scared of him. There could be blackmail, but i doubt at this point that's why he acts the way he does.
  He'll kiss his ass because Putin is stronger than him and he knows it.

Has he, though?

Considering how all of MAGA played 2020 ( they downright knew the facade the whole time) There’s not a doubt Trump knew what was going on. He may play a dumb American but there’s just no way trump just realized this. He’s known it all along just like 2020.

He's not a complete idiot, but he has very little knowledge, which in many situations is almost the same thing. However, I wouldn't underestimate his daddy issues. Even a highly intelligent person (which he definitely is not) can fall to inner biases, and I wouldn't put it past dictators to fit neatly into the hole in his heart from never receiving papa's love.

What? Noooo…

Longest and most obvious "coming to realization" montage ever

That sounds so naive...

US recon planes are again flying over the black sea.

Mais là

LOL, nah.

is macron really this fucking stupid? or is he just acting this fucking stupid?

Trump's not an idiot, he just plays one on TV. He wants to distance himself from Putin now for some reason. I'm not sure why, but I'm sure there is a reason.