President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to largely sing from the same hymnal as the French leader made a hastily arranged visit to Washington meant to shore up transatlantic ties placed at risk by the Trump administration’s apparent switch in allegiances from Ukraine to Russia.
At a Monday press conference alongside Trump following a bilateral meeting and lunch, Macron told reporters that he and Trump had found “several areas of progress” in their talks about the effort to bring the three-year-old war to a close and said the goal of both his government and Trump’s administration is to “save lives” and to “bring prisoners back and bring back families and children, because there's also a humanitarian tragedy affecting the Ukrainian people.”
