Anyone who thought the Oval Office spat was just a Trump tantrum, and that the US president would calm down over the weekend, will have woken today to the rustle of the US security rug being pulled from under the European allies and Ukraine.
Donald Trump gave them three days to try to rustle up a reaction to his row with Volodymyr Zelensky. When the “coalition of the willing” summit in London revealed differences about what exactly the members would do, and how to pay for it – and after Trump was enraged by the Ukrainian president saying the end of the war was “very, very far away”, he moved to pour salt into the wounds. “America will not put up with it for much longer,” he declared in a post on Truth Social.
