President Donald Trump declared Monday a success, posting around 6 p.m. that he’d „had a very good meeting with distinguished guests,” then “a further meeting in the Oval Office.“
President Donald Trump declared Monday a success, posting around 6 p.m. that he’d “had a very good meeting with distinguished guests,” then “a further meeting in the Oval Office.”
After which he phoned Russia’s Vladimir Putin to start arranging a Putin sitdown with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, then “we will have a Trilat, which would be the two Presidents, plus myself.”
Crucially, he was caught on a hot mic earlier saying he believes Putin truly wants to reach a peace deal: “I think he wants to make a deal for me, you understand that? As crazy as it sounds.”
The day sure offered grounds for hope, starting with an Oval Office love-in as Trump, Zelensky and a pack of European leaders cooed at each other.
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb probably best summed up the crowd’s praise for Trump: “I think in the past two weeks, we’ve probably had more progress in ending this war than we have in the past 3½ years.
