{"id":2122,"date":"2025-09-03T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:07:02","slug":"trump-reveals-exchange-with-jill-biden-at-notre-dame-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reveals Exchange With Jill Biden at Notre Dame Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump stated that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is prepared for \u201cpeace\u201d as he shared details of his meetings with world leaders\u2014and First Lady Jill Biden\u2014during his weekend trip to Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, Trump revealed insights from his discussions with global leaders during his first international trip since securing a second term, including a trilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and Zelensky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe wants to make peace,\u201d Trump told the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/08\/us-news\/trump-says-zelensky-is-ready-for-peace-as-he-dishes-to-post-on-meetings-with-world-leaders-and-jill-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Post<\/a>&nbsp;in a phone interview. \u201cThat\u2019s new.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe wants to have a ceasefire,\u201d he added. \u201cHe wants to make peace. We didn\u2019t talk about the details. He thinks it\u2019s time, and Putin should think it\u2019s time because he\u2019s lost \u2014 when you lose 700,000 people, it\u2019s time. It\u2019s not going to end until there\u2019s a peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump did say he spoke to Zelensky about how to end the nearly three-year-old war which began in February 2022. \u201cI\u2019m formulating a concept of how to end that ridiculous war,\u201d said Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump also pointed to his Truth Social&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/08\/us-news\/trump-calls-on-russia-to-enact-ceasefire-in-ukraine-after-assad-is-toppled-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post,<\/a>&nbsp;where he mentioned Russia in the context of the fall of the Syrian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat happened there was Russia was not able to step up to the plate because they were all bogged down in this horrible war that never should have happened in Ukraine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump also disclosed that he discussed NATO with Macron, reiterating his belief that the alliance members should \u201cpay their fair share.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also Read :<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=2084\"> Bondi Fires DOJ Worker For Abusing National Guard Members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI said NATO is good as long as they pay their bills, but they gotta pay their bills because, you know, when I got involved with NATO, nobody paid, and then they paid after I got involved,\u201d the president-elect said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe agrees with me,\u201d Trump said of the French president. \u201cHe\u2019s a good man. He did a good job. I told him, \u2018you have no idea how good a job you did\u2019 on that chapel. That\u2019s very hard to do. Painstaking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump stated that his private conversation with First Lady Jill Biden inside the cathedral was a positive interaction despite their long history of exchanging harsh remarks during the two election cycles, The Post reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVery nice. She couldn\u2019t have been nicer,\u201d Trump said about their talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s politics. You have to get used to it,\u201d he said regarding political differences in the paste. \u201cShe was very nice, and we had a very nice conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former president made headlines with his firm handshake with Macron, gripping his hand from above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a firm shake. He understands that. It\u2019s just a firm shake,\u201d he said of the shake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding his meeting with Prince William in the UK, Trump said they had a \u201cgreat talk\u201d about the Royal Family, noting that both Kate Middleton and King Charles are recovering from cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had a great talk with the prince,\u201d Trump said.\u201d And I asked him about his wife and he said she\u2019s doing well. And I asked him about his father and his father is fighting very hard, and he loves his father and he loves his wife, so it was sad. We had a great talk for half an hour, a little more than half an hour. We had a great, great talk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incoming president also told The Post that he had a \u201cgreat\u201d meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who he went on to describe as having a \u201clot of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was with her a lot,\u201d Trump said of Meloni, adding that he dined with her during the 60-member world leader reception. \u201cShe\u2019s a real live wire, I will tell you. She\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe got along great,\u201d of the group of world leaders who visited the reopened cathedral, adding that he hopes they can \u201cstraighten out the world a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This article was first published on December 9, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump stated that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is prepared for \u201cpeace\u201d as he shared details of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}