Trump news at a glance: president hints at abandoning Ukraine, rambles about ‘weak’ Europe

Trump's sometimes incoherent Politico interview featured recycled far-right tropes about European immigration - key US politics stories from Tuesday 9 December at a glance

Donald Trump has hinted he could walk away from supporting Ukraine as he doubled down on his administration's recent criticism of Europe, describing it as weak" and decaying" and claiming it was destroying itself" through immigration.

In a rambling and sometimes incoherent interview with Politico, a transcript of which was released on Tuesday, the US president struggled to name any other Ukrainian cities except for Kyiv, misrepresented elements of the trajectory of the conflict, and recycled far-right tropes about European immigration that echoed the great replacement" conspiracy theory.