# French MEP Bernard Guetta: ‘America, with this president, is not our ally. Trump is a liar’

https://mins.news/en/item/103100

- France 24, 2026-10-16 12:55 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20261016-america-with-this-president-is-not-our-ally-trump-is-a-liar-french-mep-bernard-guetta

> French journalist and MEP Bernard Guetta says Donald Trump lied by blaming Zelensky and the Ukrainian resistance for diesel prices, and that Trump is responsible because he started the war with Iran. Guetta adds that without US intelligence sharing Ukraine is increasingly weakened, and accuses the US president of helping Putin against Ukraine.

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