{"id":2056,"date":"2025-12-12T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:11:32","slug":"trump-slams-decaying-europe-and-pushes-ukraine-on-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams \u2018\u2018decaying\u2019\u2019 Europe and pushes Ukraine on elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump deepened his rift with Europe in an interview published Tuesday, calling it &#8220;decaying&#8221; and blasting key allies as &#8220;weak&#8221; over immigration and Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to Politico, Trump also called on Ukraine to hold elections despite Russia&#8217;s invasion and questioned whether the country is truly democratic under President Volodmyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Yemi Alade - Tomorrow (Official Music Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4u2yMsPdG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump doubled down on his recent extraordinary criticisms of Europe, following the release of the new U.S. national security strategy last week that recycled far-right tropes as it warned of civilizational decline on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Most European nations, they&#8217;re, they\u2019re decaying. 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