French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have both had issues with President Donald Trump in the past. At the G7 in France on Tuesday, the two spoke about dealing with the U.S. president and were caught on a hot mic talking about it.
According to the Daily Mail, the discussion went like this:
The two appeared to be discussing whether Zelensky would meet with President Donald Trump, among other things.
After the leaders exchanged greetings, Macron asked Zelensky how long he would be in France for the G7 conference.
Zelensky appeared to say that he would only be able to stay one more full day, as he had to travel to Brussels on the 18th.
Then Macron asked if Zelensky had a ‘bilateral’ [unintelligible] organized.
‘With President Trump?’ Zelensky answered.
Tantalizingly, the chiefs of state spoke quietly for over twenty seconds before Macron rejoined more audibly, ‘Okay, we’ll arrange that.’
The two may have been trying to avoid being overheard.
Trump and Zelenskyy did indeed meet at the summit and were planning to meet again before the summit ends on Wednesday. Video also emerged of moment:
Macron and Zelensky caught in hot mic moment on how to ‘deal’ with Trump. pic.twitter.com/ue30kVCAE5
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) June 16, 2026
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Zelenskky later took to X, to thank various world leaders for pledging their help at the G7 meeting.
“Priorities are clear: more air defense missiles along with licenses to produce them, winter support package, and cranking up pressure on Russia. Importantly, the U.S. is ready to provide backstop across these lines of effort,” he said.
First multilateral meeting today – the G7–Ukraine format at the G7 Summit. I thank @EmmanuelMacron, @MarkJCarney, @bundeskanzler, @GiorgiaMeloni, @takaichi_sanae, @Keir_Starmer, @POTUS, @eucopresident, @vonderleyen, for participating and for the strong ideas on how to force… pic.twitter.com/rsSsEOzr2D
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) June 16, 2026
As for Trump, he both signaled stronger support for Ukraine while calling for that country to make a deal with Russia to end the war that began in early 2022.
“Russia should make a deal,” Trump told the reporters in France. “Russia has lost tremendous amounts of people, and so has Ukraine… This was the [war] I thought was going to be the easiest settled.”
Photo courtesy of an X screenshot.
