WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump outlined his administration’s foreign policy stance regarding Russia during a White House press briefing Tuesday, declaring that Moscow poses no threat to American interests unless it invades the Czech Republic.
“Russia has been tremendous, absolutely tremendous,” Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden. “Putin calls me, we talk, everything’s beautiful. I see no problems whatsoever unless they march into Prague.”
“Look, everyone talks about 1939, about Germany,” Trump continued. “That was bad, very bad. But Putin isn’t doing that exact same thing, so we’re good.”
The Czech Republic, a NATO member since 1999, has not requested additional security guarantees from the United States. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s office declined to comment on Trump’s remarks.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova dismissed Trump’s comments as “typical American rhetoric” during her weekly press briefing in Moscow.
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