{"id":44730,"date":"2025-07-13T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44730"},"modified":"2025-07-13T21:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:30:44","slug":"trump-says-us-will-send-patriot-missiles-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=44730","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">President Trump on Sunday said that the United States will be sending Patriot air defense munitions to Ukraine, reiterating his disappointment with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The president wouldn\u2019t say how many Patriot systems or missiles will go to Ukraine but noted the U.S. isn\u2019t going to be paying for the supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI haven\u2019t agreed on the number yet, but they\u2019re going to have some because they do need protection, but the European Union is paying for it. We\u2019re not paying anything for it, but we will send it,\u201d Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on his return to Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He added, \u201cwe will send them Patriots, which they desperately need because Putin has really surprised a lot of people. He talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evening. A little bit of a problem there. I don\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He also said he will have a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5399283-trump-ukraine-patriot-munitions-putin\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump on Sunday said that the United States will be sending Patriot air defense munitions to Ukraine, reiterating his disappointment with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The president wouldn\u2019t say how many Patriot systems or missiles will go to Ukraine but noted the U.S. isn\u2019t going to be paying for the supply. \u201cI haven\u2019t agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":44731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[4216,1230,1416],"class_list":["post-44730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-patriot-missiles","tag-trump","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44732,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730\/revisions\/44732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}