A NATO Summit press conference fell silent during a touching moment between President Donald Trump and a BBC Ukrainian reporter when he expressed concern for her after she revealed that her husband was living in Ukraine.
It happened during a NATO leaders’ summit event in The Hague, Netherlands when Trump took questions from members of the foreign press, ranging from the recent successful strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities to a question from the BBC reporter about if the US intended to “sell anti-aircraft missile systems” to Ukraine amid the ongoing war between Russia and her home country.
“Are you yourself living now in Ukraine?” Trump inquired.
“My husband is there,” the reporter replied, noting that she and her kids were currently living in Warsaw because her husband wanted them there.
“Wow,” the president replied. “I can see you’re very, you know, it’s amazing…”
The expression on Trump’s face said it all as he shook his head and looked very sad and worried for the reporter and her children.
When the president pressed if her husband was a soldier, the reporter’s response was unclear.
“He’s there now,” Trump asked again, to which the BBC reporter answered, “Yes.”
“Wow, that’s rough stuff, right?” he added. “That’s tough. And you are living here? And you are a reporter.”
You could clearly see President Trump’s comments were really hitting her, and she appeared to look like she was holding back her emotions so as to continue to do her job.
Trump then praised the reporter for her “good question” and said that the US is “going to see if we can make some available.”
“And I wish you a lot of luck,” the president added. “I can see it is very upsetting to you. So say hello to your husband, OK?”
The BBC reporter appeared to mouth the words “Thank you” to the president before the barrage of questions from members of the media returned at the press conference.
Our sister site Townhall’s Katie Pavlich wrote on X,” This was quite the moment, full of emotion, and the room was silent.”
RedState reported earlier this month that Russia retaliated against Ukraine in a massive aerial assault on Kyiv following the war-torn country’s unprecedented “Operation Spiderweb” attack that hit 41 Russian strategic bombers across multiple airfields deep inside Russian territory.
During the same NATO presser, Trump called out the Fake News for downplaying the bravery of the pilots in the airstrikes to take out Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
“The pilots did an unbelievable job like nobody’s ever seen. They hit paydirt,” the president told the press. “They should be admired and respected for what they did. And the Fake News, in order to try to hit me, the Fake News made them look bad. But now they look really good again.”
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