Trump comments on Starshield access in Ukraine
What each leads with
CNN ↗ — Headline frames event as fracturing ties: "as ties with Zelensky fracture"; Body excerpt opens by calling it "the worst crisis in US-Ukraine relations since last year’s Oval Office meltdown"CNN — Headline frames event as fracturing ties: "as ties with Zelensky fracture"; Body excerpt opens by calling it "the worst crisis in US-Ukraine relations since last year’s Oval Office meltdown"
Washington Examiner ↗ — Headline and lede center Trump’s denial: "Trump says he doesn’t know who ordered Starshield throttle"; Quotes Trump directly: “Well, I don’t know if it was anybody. It wasn’t me. And I don’t think it was Elon either.”Washington Examiner — Headline and lede center Trump’s denial: "Trump says he doesn’t know who ordered Starshield throttle"; Quotes Trump directly: “Well, I don’t know if it was anybody. It wasn’t me. And I don’t think it was Elon either.”
Trump says he didn’t meddle with Elon Musk’s Starshield in Ukraine as ties with Zelensky fracture
The worst crisis in US-Ukraine relations since last year’s Oval Office meltdown is deteriorating further over a dispute about who ordered a disruption to a critical Ukrainian military system running on Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service.
Trump says he doesn’t know who ordered Starshield throttle in Ukraine
President Donald Trump said he doesn’t know who ordered Starshield to be throttled in Ukraine, a move which temporarily wrought havoc. Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, Trump was asked who ordered Starshield, SpaceX‘s military service, to be shut down. The president said he wasn’t sure, but that it wasn’t him.