Who has Trump actually spoken to on the phone?

Just a day after Donald Trump Once the election winner has been determined, there will be a conversation between the US President-elect and Russia’s President Wladimir Putin – at least according to a report in the Washington Post, according to which Trump also warned Putin about an escalation of the war in Ukraine.

However, the Kremlin denied this on Monday: “There was no conversation,” the spokesman said Dmitri Peskov quoted by the Russian news agency “Interfax”. Although they are open to resuming contact, there are currently no concrete timetables.

The fact that, according to the Washington Post, the Ukrainian government had been informed about the conversation and had no objections was also rejected by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as “false”.

Zelenskiy called Trump – and Musk

During the election campaign, Trump announced that he would end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours – but he has so far left it open as to how. According to an unconfirmed report in the Wall Street Journal, Trump spoke to Putin several times as ex-president in recent years.

About a phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Selenksky Shortly after the US election, the news portal “Axios” reported – Kiev also confirmed this exchange. Tech billionaire is said to have been there Elon Muskone of the largest and most prominent Trump supporters and possibly a future adviser in the White House. Trump gave Musk the phone after Zelensky congratulated the Republican. Zelenskiy is said to have thanked Musk for supporting Ukraine with his Starlink satellite internet after the Russian attack.

Apparently already three conversations with Netanyahu

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu According to his own statements, he has spoken to Trump three times in the past few days in order to strengthen the alliance between the two countries. “They were good and very important discussions,” said Netanyahu. There was agreement about “the Iranian threat in all its facets and the danger it poses”. In addition, one sees the “great opportunities that would present themselves for Israel in the area of ​​peace”.

Already on Thursday, Trump apparently told NBC that he had already spoken to around 70 heads of state and government. Including France’s president Emmanuel Macronwho was probably one of the first foreign callers on Wednesday: the conversation is said to have lasted 25 minutes and was about how a “return of peace and stability” could be achieved.

Since then, more have been added: with the German Chancellor, who is in a government crisis Olaf Scholz for example, with whom he is also said to have spoken about a “return of peace to Europe”. Only a few details are known.

Whether Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer – who is also president these days Alexander van der Bellen It is not known that he has already spoken to Trump on the phone after his operation as head of state. But he already congratulated him on Wednesday: