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Trump wants to be with the ‘winners.’ Europe should remember that.

Trump wants to be with the ‘winners.’ Europe should remember that.

politico.eu 22.09.2026 16:16 4 views
Getting the White House onside isn't about ideology — it's about popularity, said POLITICO's Jonathan Martin.

President Donald Trump that they and Ukraine are on the winning side of the war if they want Washington’s support to continue. That’s according to Jonathan Martin, POLITICO’s U.S. politics bureau chief, who was speaking at the Playbook Live event in Brussels on Tuesday. It’s very easy; Trump doesn’t care about Mamdani’s politics.

He’s young, he’s good-looking, he’s articulate — he’s hot. That’s what Trump cares about.” Trump “wants to be with the winners of life. He doesn’t care who you are.

It could be Zohran Mamdani or [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, right? If you’re cool in the moment, if you’re part of the in club, man, he wants to be with you,” Martin went on. Because if enough people can convince him that Putin and Russia are losing, and Ukraine is on the march, and boy, they’ve mastered this new drone technology, and they are setting back the Russians.

The Russians are taking huge casualties. You know, Ukraine really is the hot new item.”

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