{"id":95565,"date":"2026-06-17T18:42:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-i-want-to-thank-china-and-russia-for-staying-very-neutral-on-iran-they-could-have-made-this-much-more-difficult\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:42:50","slug":"trump-i-want-to-thank-china-and-russia-for-staying-very-neutral-on-iran-they-could-have-made-this-much-more-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/trump-i-want-to-thank-china-and-russia-for-staying-very-neutral-on-iran-they-could-have-made-this-much-more-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: I Want To Thank China And Russia For Staying &#8220;Very Neutral&#8221; On Iran&#8211;&#8220;They Could Have Made This Much More Difficult&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> President Trump said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/17\/watch_live_president_trump_press_conference_after_g7_summit.html\">during a press conference at this week&#8217;s G7 meeting in France<\/a> that he&#8217;s grateful to Russia and China for staying &#8220;neutral&#8221; during the U.S. war with Iran  &#8220;I want to thank China, President Xi &#8212; I was with him, and he stayed neutral, totally neutral, and I appreciate it,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And I want to thank Vladimir Putin. He was very neutral.&#8221;  &#8220;They could have made it much more difficult for us,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And I want to say it.&#8221;   &#8220;Somebody would say, Oh, that&#8217;s terrible, he&#8217;s thanking President Xi of China.&#8221;  &#8220;Well, let me tell you, I had a long talk with him. You know, they have shoulder weapons to knock down airplanes &#8212; it&#8217;s not like the real deal, but they&#8217;re fairly accurate,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;I said I would really appreciate you not giving or selling any of that stuff to Iran.&#8221;  &#8220;And you know what? For the most part, he didn&#8217;t!&#8221;   &#8220;So I just want to thank them because they made it a lot better,&#8221; Trump said.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/17\/trump_i_want_to_thank_china_and_russia_for_staying_very_neutral_on_iran--they_could_have_made_this_a_lot_harder.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said during a press conference at this week&#8217;s G7 meeting in France that he&#8217;s grateful to Russia and China for staying &#8220;neutral&#8221; during the U.S. war with Iran &#8220;I want to thank China, President Xi &#8212; I was with him, and he stayed neutral, totally neutral, and I appreciate it,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5405,264,216,1851,29582,592,470,928,7401,4437,9636,5395,1249,952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}