Trump: ‘No deal till there is a deal’
David Smith
That was fast. Donald Trump left extra questions than solutions as he fawned over Vladimir Putin however gave valuable few particulars about their high-stakes summit.
“I imagine we had a really productive assembly,” he mentioned. “There have been many, many factors that we agreed on … There’s no deal till there’s a deal. I’ll name up Nato … I’ll in fact name up President Zelenskyy and inform him about right now’s assembly … We actually made some nice progress.”
He added: “I’ve all the time had a improbable relationship with President Putin – with Vladimir … We had been interfered with by the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax.”
Trump warmly thanked Putin, who invited him to Moscow, and dozens of reporters shouted questions however in useless. The US president, who can sometimes by no means resist speaking and speaking, left the stage with out answering any of them.
Key occasions
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In 2024 debate, Harris told Trump that Putin ‘would eat you for lunch’ in Ukraine talks
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Trump claims Putin told him 2020 election ‘was rigged’
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Trump says his advice to Zelenskyy is ‘make a deal’
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‘Wars are very bad; I seem to have an ability to end them’, Trump boasts after failure to broker Ukraine ceasefire
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Trump boasts to Hannity that meeting with Putin was ‘a 10’
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‘Next time in Moscow’: Putin invites Trump to Russia for next round of talks
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‘I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire’, Trump tells Fox en route to summit,
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After summit ends with a whimper, Trump turns to Sean Hannity to make sense of it all
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Fox News calls it ‘really stunning’ that Putin spoke first on US soil
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Trump: ‘No deal until there’s a deal’
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Trump-Putin news conference abruptly ends with no questions from reporters and no details of agreement
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Trump calls meeting with Putin ‘extremely productive’ but says more needs to be done to end war in Ukraine
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Putin says he reached an agreement with Trump
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Putin speaks first at the joint news conference in Alaska
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Trump-Putin summit news conference begins
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Kremlin says Putin’s talks with Trump are over
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White House edits out Trump’s applause for Putin in social media clip
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Ukrainians mock Trump for rolling out the red carpet for Putin
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‘On the day of negotiations, the Russians are killing as well,’ Zelenskyy says from Kyiv
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Trump-Putin meeting is under way
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Trump and Putin begin summit, joined by respective delegations
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Trump and Putin greet each other as summit begins
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Putin to be joined by Russian cabinet officials at summit
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Putin lands in Alaska ahead of summit
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Emotions run high in frontline Ukrainian city over ceding land to Russia
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Trump-Putin meeting no longer one-on-one, press secretary says
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Trump lands in Anchorage, Alaska
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The view from Alaska: meeting could prove a win-win for Trump and Putin
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Russian government plane lands ahead of summit
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Trump’s pivotal meeting with Putin to begin shortly
In 2024 debate, Harris instructed Trump that Putin ‘would eat you for lunch’ in Ukraine talks
Eleven months in the past, throughout a presidential debate, Kamala Harris scoffed at Donald Trump’s declare that he would be capable of finish the battle in Ukraine inside 24 hours, based mostly on his relationship with Vladimir Putin.
After Trump claimed that he would get the battle ended even earlier than taking workplace, as president-elect, Harris shot again.
“I imagine the rationale that Donald Trump says that this battle can be over inside 24 hours is as a result of he would simply give it up”, Harris said. “You’ll quit for the sake of favor and what you suppose is a friendship with what is understood to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch”.
In the long run, when Trump did meet Putin as president on Friday, seven months into his second time period, their dialogue of ending the battle went so badly that even the deliberate working lunch with the leaders and their aides was canceled.
That meant that the Russians went dwelling with out tasting the filet mignon the president had deliberate to serve them, in sharp distinction to the final summit between the 2 presidents, in Helsinki in 2018, when lunch was served.
{A photograph} of that 2018 lunch, taken by the New York Instances photographer Doug Mills, can be a reminder of how completely different the make-up of Trump’s delegation was then.
In 2018, Trump sat all the way down to lunch with Putin flanked by: John Kelly, his chief of employees; Fiona Hill, his Russia adviser; Mike Pompeo, his secretary of state; Jon Huntsman, his ambassador to Russia; and John Bolton, his nationwide safety adviser. Each a kind of former aides subsequently left Trump’s interior circle and brazenly denounced him.
In contrast, Putin was joined on the 2018 lunch by: his international minister, Sergey Lavrov; his international coverage adviser, Yuri Ushakov; and his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov. All of them had been at his aspect in Alaska on Friday.
Trump claims Putin instructed him 2020 election ‘was rigged’
Donald Trump claimed in an interview with Sean Hannity on Friday that Vladimir Putin, the Russian autocrat who has jailed, exiled and killed political rivals who might problem him in elections, instructed him at their summit assembly that the 2020 US presidential election “was rigged” by the widespread use of postal voting that yr.
“Vladimir Putin mentioned one thing, probably the most attention-grabbing issues, he mentioned, ‘Your election was rigged as a result of you have got mail-in voting,’” Trump said. “He mentioned, ‘No nation has mail-in voting. It’s inconceivable to have mail-in voting and have trustworthy elections.’”
“We talked about 2020, he mentioned: ‘You received that election by a lot,’” Trump added.
A short while later, after making the false declare that California’s system of sending ballots to voters opened the door to fraud, Trump mentioned: “Vladimir Putin, good man, mentioned ‘You possibly can’t have an trustworthy election with mail-in voting.’”
There is no such thing as a proof that voter fraud performed any function in Trump’s loss within the 2020 election, however elections in Putin’s Russia are notoriously dishonest, with rampant dishonest by the authorities documented by pro-democracy activists.
It’s inconceivable to know if Putin did make these remarks, however Trump has a behavior of placing his personal phrases within the mouths of different individuals.
Within the interview, he additionally claimed that Putin instructed him that the US was “useless” underneath his predecessor, Joe Biden, and was now “as sizzling as a pistol”.
Trump went on to repeat his declare that “the king of Saudi Arabia” instructed him the very same factor in Might, when he visited the nation. However Trump didn’t meet the aged king of Saudi Arabia throughout his go to.
Trump says his recommendation to Zelenskyy is ‘make a deal’
Requested by Sean Hannity what recommendation he would give to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy after assembly with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Donald Trump mentioned he would inform him to “make a deal”, to finish the battle.
He made no reference to any manner by which Ukraine might make a cope with Russia whereas underneath occupation and bombardment.
Trump additionally repeated his acquainted lie, debunked by the Guardian six months in the past, that the US had given $350bn to Ukraine for its protection, whereas Europe had given simply $100bn.
‘Wars are very dangerous; I appear to have a capability to finish them’, Trump boasts after failure to dealer Ukraine ceasefire
In an interview with Sean Hannity, recorded within the room the place he simply didn’t persuade Vladimir Putin to cease attacking Ukraine, Donald Trump simply boasted that he has a particular expertise for ending wars.
“Wars are very dangerous, I appear to have a capability to finish them,” Trump mentioned.
The president was responding to a remark from Hannity, who praised Trump for enjoying a job in tamping down a collection of largely dormant world conflicts previously six months. Neither man talked about that Trump had promised on the marketing campaign path that he would finish the battle in Ukraine inside 24 hours if elected.
Trump boasts to Hannity that assembly with Putin was ‘a ten’
Donald Trump’s post-summit interview with Sean Hannity is being broadcast now on Fox.
Trump started by repeating his declare that he “all the time had a fantastic relationship with President Putin”, however cooperation between america and Russia was made inconceivable by the investigation into Russian interference within the 2016 election, which he refers to as a “hoax”.
He then mentioned that he did have an opportunity to talk privately to Putin, after their temporary, 12-minute information convention. Putin “spoke very sincerely”, Trump mentioned about his need to finish the battle in Ukraine. Trump didn’t point out that the battle started with Putin’s resolution to grab Ukrainian territory in 2014, after his ally was deposed as president of Ukraine in a well-liked rebellion. It then intensified in 2022 when Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Requested by Hannity to fee the assembly on a scale of 1 to 10, Trump replied that it was “a ten” as a result of it confirmed that the leaders of the 2 nuclear-armed nations might cooperate.
“It’s good when two large powers get alongside,” Trump mentioned.
Hannity then pressed Trump to disclose what Putin instructed him about why he thought the battle in Ukraine wouldn’t have began if Trump was president. Trump demurred, however mentioned that he might say in his personal phrases that the rationale was that Biden was grossly incompetent.
‘Subsequent time in Moscow’: Putin invitations Trump to Russia for subsequent spherical of talks
On the finish of Donald Trump’s temporary and considerably defeated-sounding remarks after his assembly with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president prolonged an invite to his US counterpart to carry the subsequent spherical of talks within the Russian capital.
“Once more, Mr President, I’d wish to thanks very a lot, and we’ll communicate to you very quickly and doubtless see you once more very quickly,” Trump mentioned. “Thanks very a lot, Vladimir.”
“Subsequent time in Moscow,” Putin replied, chuckling.
“Oh, that’s an attention-grabbing one,” Trump mentioned. “I’ll get just a little warmth on that one, however I, uh, I might see it probably taking place.”
‘I will not be joyful if I stroll away with out some type of a ceasefire’, Trump tells Fox en path to summit,
On his strategy to Alaska, Donald Trump instructed Fox Information anchor Bret Baier that his aim for the talks with Vladimir Putin was to get the Russian president to conform to a ceasefire.
“So if you discuss offers, it’s all I do my complete life, I do offers, you by no means know, you don’t wish to have too many expectations,” Trump instructed Baier in an interview recorded on Air Drive One which was broadcast on Friday.
“However we’re going to go and discover out. I’d wish to see a ceasefire. I wouldn’t be thrilled if I didn’t get it, however everybody says, ‘You’re not going to get the ceasefire, it’ll happen on the second assembly’, however I’m not going to be proud of that.
“I received’t be joyful if I stroll away with out some type of a ceasefire.”
After summit ends with a whimper, Trump turns to Sean Hannity to make sense of all of it
The White Home pool reporter tells us that Donald Trump “is presently doing a beforehand introduced interview with Sean Hannity of Fox Information”.
That interview, with an opinion host who’s a powerful supporter of the president and has campaigned for him, is scheduled to be broadcast on Hannity’s present in simply over an hour.
The interview was billed by the community as an unique look behind the scenes at what was purported to have been a gathering of historic significance, maybe similar to Richard Nixon’s 1972 go to to China to fulfill chairman Mao Zedong. On the very least, Trump mentioned that he hoped to persuade the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to conform to an instantaneous ceasefire in his battle on Ukraine.
Now that Trump’s talks with Putin have didn’t deliver the battle in Ukraine to an finish, a battle that he promised on the marketing campaign path he might finish in 24 hours, his dialogue with Hannity will little question be an excellent deal much less celebratory.
Fox Information calls it ‘actually beautiful’ that Putin spoke first on US soil
Amongst these scrambling to make sense of the 12-minute information convention, at which no questions had been taken earlier than Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin departed, are Fox Information producers and correspondents who had hyped this assembly between the presidents of america and Russia as a summit of historic proportions, and one at which they’d have unique entry.
The community deliberate to broadcast an unique preview of the summit, recorded with Trump en path to Alaska on Air Drive One, because the talks went on, to be adopted by a second unique interview with the president, performed by Sean Hannity instantly after the talks, to be broadcast throughout his 9pm present on Fox.
These fastidiously laid plans had been thrown into chaos by the briefness of each the speak and the information convention.
Jacqui Heinrich, a Fox White Home correspondent, simply famous in a live report from the convention room that what unfolded was very completely different from what Trump administration officers instructed reporters to count on. The concept, Heinrich mentioned, was that there can be a information convention with the 2 leaders, and the chance to query them, if the talks went effectively, but when the talks didn’t go effectively, solely Trump would seem and Putin can be despatched packing.
“Neither of these issues occurred,” Heinrich famous. “And what was actually beautiful to me, as somebody who has been in a number of these press conferences, is there have been just a few issues that had been very uncommon. You had Putin come out and tackle the press first. We’re on US soil right here.”
“The way in which that it felt within the room was not good,” Heinrich additionally mentioned. “It didn’t look like issues went effectively. And it appeared like Putin got here in and steamrolled, acquired proper into what he needed to say and acquired his photograph subsequent to the president after which left.”
As Heinrich tried to make sense of what had taken place, the nook of the display screen on Fox promoted Trump’s interview with Hannity, which remains to be scheduled to air at 9pm ET.
Putin additionally dominated the joint look by way of talking time. Whereas the Russian chief spoke for about 8 minutes and 30 seconds, the US president was performed in slightly below 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
Trump: ‘No deal till there is a deal’
David Smith
That was fast. Donald Trump left extra questions than solutions as he fawned over Vladimir Putin however gave valuable few particulars about their high-stakes summit.
“I imagine we had a really productive assembly,” he mentioned. “There have been many, many factors that we agreed on … There’s no deal till there’s a deal. I’ll name up Nato … I’ll in fact name up President Zelenskyy and inform him about right now’s assembly … We actually made some nice progress.”
He added: “I’ve all the time had a improbable relationship with President Putin – with Vladimir … We had been interfered with by the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax.”
Trump warmly thanked Putin, who invited him to Moscow, and dozens of reporters shouted questions however in useless. The US president, who can sometimes by no means resist speaking and speaking, left the stage with out answering any of them.
Trump-Putin information convention abruptly ends with no questions from reporters and no particulars of settlement
Donald Trump ended his temporary remarks on the joint information convention by thanking Vladimir Putin, and saying that they’d communicate once more quickly.
“Subsequent time in Moscow,” Putin replied in English.
Trump then known as the information convention to an finish with out taking any questions from the assembled reporters, or providing any particulars of what Putin known as the settlement that they had reached of their three hours of talks.
Trump calls assembly with Putin ‘extraordinarily productive’ however says extra must be performed to finish battle in Ukraine
Donald Trump simply started his very temporary remarks by saying that the talks with Putin had been “extraordinarily productive” however extra must be performed to resolve the battle in Ukraine.
“I imagine we had a really productive assembly. There have been many, many factors that we agreed on,” Trump mentioned. “There’s no deal till there’s a deal. I’ll name up Nato … I’ll in fact name up President Zelensky and inform him about right now’s assembly.”
“We actually made some nice progress,” Trump mentioned with out revealing any particulars of what that progress was.
“I’m going to start out making just a few cellphone calls and inform them what occurred, however we had an especially productive assembly and lots of factors had been agreed to,” Trump mentioned. “There are only a only a few which can be left. Some should not that vital, one might be essentially the most vital. However we’ve an excellent probability of getting there, we didn’t get there, however we’ve an excellent probability of getting there.”
David Smith
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have begun their joint press convention in Anchorage, Alaska, standing at lecterns in opposition to a blue backdrop that claims “Pursuing peace”.
Unusually, the visiting international chief went first. Talking through Russian interpreter, Putin mentioned he gave Trump a “neighbourly” greeting right now as a result of the US and Russia are neighbours and Alaska is a reminder of this. He acknowledged bilateral relations fell to the “lowest level because the chilly battle”.
Putin described Trump’s efforts on Ukraine as “valuable” and claimed “all the things that’s taking place is a tragedy for us and horrible wound”. With out giving particulars, Putin mentioned right now’s “settlement” might assist Ukraine’s safety and urged Europe to “not throw a wrench within the works” and “not use backroom dealings” to torpedo it.
Putin says he reached an settlement with Trump
Putin says that he has reached an settlement with Trump and hopes that leaders in Kyiv “received’t throw a wrench” into the method of deliver the battle to an finish. He presents no particulars on what the settlement is.
He additionally repeated his frequent demand that the basis causes of the battle have to be addressed. Up to now, Putin has urged that these causes embrace the elected authorities of Ukraine, which he has falsely claimed is led by Nazis.
Putin notes that Trump has claimed that the full-scale battle that started with Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 wouldn’t have occurred had Trump been the US president. Putin says that he agrees.
Putin speaks first on the joint information convention in Alaska
Vladimir Putin is talking first on the joint information convention in Alaska after his talks with Donald Trump wrapped up forward of schedule.
Putin mentioned the talks had been constructive earlier than shifting on to debate the previous Russian management of Alaska, noting the a whole lot of Russian names of cities and quite a few Russian Orthodox church buildings within the state.
The Russian chief’s emphasis on the historic Russian “heritage” of the US state is not going to be comforting to Ukrainian listeners, given Putin’s declare that your complete nation, which was as soon as a part of the Russian empire, must be thought-about a part of the “Russian world”.
“We’ve all the time thought-about the Ukrainian nation a brotherly nation,” Putin says.
Trump-Putin summit information convention begins
Donald Trump’s talks with Vladimir Putin on the battle in Ukraine have concluded sooner than anticipated and a joint information convention with the 2 presidents is about to start at a US navy base in Anchorage, Alaska. We’ve reside video from the room, and can deliver you updates on their remarks right here on the weblog.
Kremlin says Putin’s talks with Trump are over
The Russian international ministry experiences on social media that the primary spherical of talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are over. Video posted on X by the ministry reveals Putin strolling away from the room and speaking to his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.
The ministry says a joint information convention is predicted to start quickly.
The unexpectedly brief talks have prompted hypothesis that the assembly didn’t go effectively. Prematurely of the summit, Trump did say: “I’ll know throughout the first two minutes, three minutes, 4 minutes or 5 minutes. We have a tendency to search out out whether or not or not we’re going to have an excellent assembly or a nasty assembly, and if it’s a nasty assembly, it’ll finish in a short time”.
Reporters have been known as into the room arrange for a joint information convention with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, my colleague David Smith experiences from Anchorage.
We’ll deliver you updates right here as soon as the occasion begins, however the timing is a little bit of a shock, since Trump’s aide, Dan Scavino, posted on X lower than an hour in the past that the primary of two deliberate conferences between the US and Russian delegations was nonetheless happening. That session, by which the 2 leaders had been joined by two international coverage advisers, was to have been adopted by a bigger working lunch.
