Will Trump want Europe to come up with a peace plan for Ukraine?

Donald Trump is a peacemaker, Donald Trump is a winner, Donald Trump wins the prize. That's basically how the 47th president operates. It has to be his idea, his negotiating, his deal-making and then he gets all the kudos. But after the bust-up in the White House on Friday with Volodymyr Zelensky, Europe has leapt into the vacuum and has pledged to come up with a ceasefire plan all of its own to bring the war in Ukraine to an end. Really? Will Trump welcome this? Surely not. If Europe produces a cunning bluerprint, although for the life of me I can't imagine what it could be, and presents it to Trump as the way to go, the US president ain't going to like it. He wants to bring the war to an end, not the lilly-livered Europeans. If there's going to be a Nobel peace prize in the offing, he will want his name on the trophy, not Macron or Starmer or Georgia Meloni. So, bizarrely, any move by Europe to take over the peacemaking will go down about as well as an apple strudel covered in peanut butter. No way, he will be saying to his mates in his inner circle. And, as a result, it just might move things along between Trump and Zelensky and, of course, Putin. As long as Zelensky comes begging, as I suggested yesterday, then Trump will move fast to make sure the Europeans don't get their spoke in. Anyway, to be fair, there is no way Europe is going to be able to ring up Putin and, Trump-style, say: "Hey Vlad, we've got this great idea for a ceasefire. How about coming over to meet us in London/Paris/Rome and get it signed up." Putin will stick with Trump every day, and Zelensky knows this. So whatever Starmer, Macron and co produce, it's still going to be a Trump/Zelensky/Putin deal at the end of the day.