{"id":216391,"date":"2025-12-09T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=216391"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:18:08","slug":"trump-says-zelensky-will-be-have-to-make-concessions-highlights-from-trumps-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/216391\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Zelensky will be have to make concessions: Highlights from Trump\u2019s interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In an interview with Politico, Trump said the time has come for Ukraine to hold presidential elections.<\/p>\n

Below are highlights from Trump’s interview:<\/p>\n

Russia now holds a stronger position at the negotiating table in the Russia–Ukraine conflict. There can be no doubt about that.<\/li>\n
Zelensky’s aides liked the U.S. peace plan, but they said Zelensky had not yet read it. I think he should find time to read it. A lot of people are dying.<\/li>\n
Ukraine is using the war as a reason not to hold elections, but I think the Ukrainian people should have that choice.<\/li>\n
The war between Russia and Ukraine would not have started if I had been president.<\/li>\n
Europe only talks about Ukraine but takes no real action.<\/li>\n
Europe’s immigration policy is disastrous; the U.S. was also facing disaster, but I was able to stop it.<\/li>\n
Zelensky will have to make concessions.<\/li>\n
Ukraine has lost a lot of land, and it’s very good land.<\/li>\n
There are countries that are difficult for NATO. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be in the alliance. I think it’s good that they’re there. For example, Turkey. Erdogan is my friend. When alliance members have a problem with Erdogan, they ask me to call him because they can’t talk to him. He’s a tough cookie. I actually like him a lot. He’s built a strong country, a strong army.<\/li>\n
I want to see a strong Europe.<\/li>\n
The days of Maduro’s rule are numbered.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an interview with Politico, Trump said the time has come for Ukraine to hold presidential elections. Below are highlights from Trump’s interview: Russia now holds a stronger position at the negotiating table in the Russia–Ukraine conflict. There can be no doubt about that. Zelensky’s aides liked the U.S. peace plan, but they said Zelensky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":216362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216392,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216391\/revisions\/216392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}