{"id":929017,"date":"2026-10-15T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929017\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:00:10","slug":"piers-morgan-issues-direct-address-to-trump-after-zelensky-interview-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929017\/","title":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan issues direct address to Trump after Zelensky interview | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/piers-morgan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Piers Morgan<\/a> has issued a direct television address to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/volodymyr-zelensky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>\u2019s bombshell interview.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Wednesday (14 October), the Ukrainian president told the presenter that he felt betrayed by the US president as he discussed Trump\u2019s deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/moscow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moscow<\/a> for diesel to curb domestic fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>Looking directly into the camera after the interview, Mr Morgan said: If you are watching President Trump, do the right thing here. Siding with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/vladimir-putin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> against this guy and his country, it is the wrong thing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s what we called in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/world-war-two\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World War Two<\/a>, appeasement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/hitler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hitler<\/a>. Don\u2019t be that guy. Give this guy the support he needs to defeat the modern day Hitler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/england\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> and the UK are right behind you,\u201d he then tells Zelensky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piers Morgan has issued a direct television address to Donald Trump after Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s bombshell interview. Appearing on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,495939,495938,427],"class_list":["post-929017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-optamatchid2645252","tag-optauuid4funfoy0bxp3y7thhhbxnbk7o","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}