{"id":24,"date":"2026-04-16T03:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:19:23","slug":"watch-trump-greek-prime-minister-hold-joint-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Trump, Greek prime minister hold joint press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump says the U.S. stands with Greece as they recover from their economic crisis. He is speaking with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the White House in a joint news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. president says the two leaders have discussed defense, energy, commerce and trade.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is praising Greece for its defense spending under NATO and is noting a potential sale to Greece to upgrade its F-16 aircraft, which he says would be worth up to $2.4 billion and generate thousands of U.S. jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Tsipras says his country has made economic strides and is &#8220;leaving behind the economic model that led to the crisis.&#8221; He says Greece&#8217;s relationship with the U.S. is &#8220;more important than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-invite inline-invite-type__funding inline-invite-style__default\">\n<div class=\"inline-invite-funding__box\">\n<figure class=\"invite__logo default \">\n                    <svg class=\"svg\"><use xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"#pbs-newshour-horiz-refresh\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n                <\/figure>\n<p>\n                    A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"invite_body\">\n                    Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/give.newshour.org\/page\/88646\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=pbs_news_sept_2025_article&amp;supporter.appealCode=N2509AW1000100\" class=\"donation-link ga-click-funding ga-click-ender-funding\"><br \/>\n                    <button class=\"donate-button\">Donate now<\/button><br \/>\n                    <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:svg=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24px\" height=\"24px\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"#000000\" class=\"bi bi-arrow-right-short\" version=\"1.1\" id=\"svg1\">\n                    <defs id=\"defs1\"\/>\n                    <path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M4 8a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h5.793L8.146 5.354a.5.5 0 1 1 .708-.708l3 3a.5.5 0 0 1 0 .708l-3 3a.5.5 0 0 1-.708-.708L10.293 8.5H4.5A.5.5 0 0 1 4 8z\" id=\"path1\"\/>\n                    <\/svg><br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/rundown\/watch-live-trump-and-greek-prime-minister-hold-joint-press-conference\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump says the U.S. stands with Greece as they recover from their economic crisis. He is speaking with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the White House in a joint news conference. The U.S. president says the two leaders have discussed defense, energy, commerce and trade. Trump is praising Greece for its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}