Former US President Donald Trump charged this Sunday against the current US president, Joe Biden , for his “friendship” with French President Emmanuel Macron and in particular has criticized Europe for having “used” the United States.

Trump has issued a statement in response to a specific phrase uttered by Macron on Saturday after his meeting with Biden: “It is good to have among us a president of the United States who really wants to cooperate,” reports the French press.

For Trump, Europe “has only used” the United States. “Macron, like many of his predecessors in France and throughout Europe, has deceived the United States on a grand scale. They have treated us unfairly with nightmare trade agreements despite the fact that we were the ones who paid for the defense of Europe ”, he argued.

So European leaders are happy with Biden just because with him they can go back to “the old fraudulent practices.” “They have treated us very unfairly,” he lamented. “Now they are going to get very rich at the expense of the United States, ” he assured.

Biden agrees with Putin

US President Joe Biden said this Sunday that he agrees with the assessment made by his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin , of relations between Moscow and Washington, which, in the opinion of the Russian leader, are at the point lowest in recent years. “I think Putin is right, they are at a very low point ,” Biden declared at a press conference held at the end of the G7 summit and a few days after the first meeting he will hold with the Russian president in Geneva (Switzerland) the next Wednesday.

The US president has indicated, on the other hand, that his country is not seeking a conflict of any kind with Russia, but rather to redirect relations in accordance with the standards of the international community.

Putin had declared this Sunday that the main objective of his meeting next week with his American counterpart, Joe Biden, will be the reestablishment of direct dialogue between the two countries after years of strong diplomatic tensions that have broken the chains of contact.

“Reestablish our personal contacts, relationships, resume direct dialogue, create cooperation mechanisms that work in areas that are of mutual interest,” Putin said in an interview with channel Rossiya 1.

Success of the G7 summit

For the rest, Biden has highly valued their participation in the G7 summit, “an extraordinarily collaborative and productive meeting” whose leaders have exhibited “genuine enthusiasm” to reach a compromise.

“The United States has returned to its usual course : leading the world alongside nations that share our deepest values, and I believe that we have made progress in restoring American credibility among our closest friends,” he added, referring to the distancing exhibited by his predecessor, Donald Trump, at the last summit.