Europeans should focus on convincing U.S. President Donald Trump that they and Ukraine are on the winning side of the war if they want Washington\u2019s support to continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s according to Jonathan Martin, POLITICO\u2019s U.S. politics bureau chief, who was speaking at the Playbook Live event in Brussels on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn terms of Europe in the context here, Trump wants to be with the winner,\u201d said Martin, pointing to the friendly relations between the president and Zohran Mamdani, the left-wing mayor of New York, as an example of his approach to popular figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhy is he at Gracie Mansion [the official mayoral residence] with a socialist mayor of New York City yesterday, whose views ostensibly are anathema to everything Trump and Trumpism is about? It\u2019s very easy; Trump doesn\u2019t care about Mamdani\u2019s politics. He\u2019s young, he\u2019s good-looking, he\u2019s articulate \u2014 he\u2019s hot. He\u2019s the new item. That\u2019s what Trump cares about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump \u201cwants to be with the winners of life. He doesn\u2019t care who you are. It could be Zohran Mamdani or [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, right? If you\u2019re cool in the moment, if you\u2019re part of the in club, man, he wants to be with you,\u201d Martin went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhy does that matter for Europe? Because if enough people can convince him that Putin and Russia are losing, and Ukraine is on the march, and boy, they\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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