France's prime minister tears into Trump's attack on Zelenskyy as a staggering show of 'brutality'

PARIS (AP) — France's premier curate connected Monday tore into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling it a staggering amusement of “brutality” that aimed to humiliate Ukraine’s person and crook him to the volition of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The extraordinarily frank disapproval from Prime Minister François Bayrou, speaking successful a parliamentary statement connected Ukraine, diverged from the much nuanced code that French President Emmanuel Macron has adopted successful the aftermath of the clash astatine the White House connected Friday and dropped the diplomatic niceties that customarily people French-U.S. relations.

“On Friday night, successful the Oval Office of the White House, a staggering country unfurled earlier the lenses of the full world, marked by brutality, a tendency to humiliate, with the extremity of making Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fold done threats, truthful that helium gives successful to the demands of his aggressors,” Bayrou said.

“All this was summed up successful 1 operation earlier the planet’s cameras: ‘Either you find a woody with Putin oregon we volition wantonness you,’” Bayrou said, seemingly referring to Trump's comments successful the Oval Office. Trump's existent words to Zelenskyy were “you’re either going to marque a woody oregon we’re out.”

Continuing his code to France's parliament, Bayrou added: “For the grant of antiauthoritarian responsibility, for the grant of Ukraine and, I situation say, for the grant of Europe, President Zelenskyy did not fold and I deliberation we tin amusement him our appreciation."

Lawmakers got to their feet successful the National Assembly enclosure to applaud.

Bayrou's grim outlook for Europe

In opening the parliamentary debate, Bayrou said that Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine and its diplomatic fallout person near Europe successful sedate peril. He spoke of “an historical concern that successful our eyes is the astir serious, the astir destabilized, the astir unsafe of each those that our state and our continent person experienced since the extremity of World War II.”

The French premier curate said that the Oval Office scene — wherever Zelenskyy was berated some by Trump and U.S. Vice President JD Vance earlier being asked to permission the White House — near “two victims."

The first, Bayrou said, was Ukraine's security.

The 2nd was some the trans-Atlantic narration with accepted American allies and Washington's image, helium said. Bayrou said that the Oval Office country “compromised different cardinal alliance: the 1 that the United States had with themselves, their history, and with a definite perfect of defending the law, of defending the anemic against the forces of tyranny.”

Bayrou has been Macron's premier curate since December. Although Bayrou doesn't talk straight for the presidency, the seasoned French person has agelong been a important spouse for Macron. In opening his code to parliament, Bayrou said that helium was speaking for Macron's government.

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John Leicester reported from Le Pecq.