President Trump on Wednesday spoke to reporters in the Oval Office during an executive order signing and signaled hope that Russia is ready to end the war in Ukraine.
“I thought it might be easier to deal with Zelensky. So far, it’s been harder, but that’s okay, it’s all right,” he said.
It can be recalled that Zelensky sabotaged peace negotiations with President Trump in February by disrespecting him in the Oval Office and reneging on a pre-agreed-upon peace deal. Ukraine had previously approved Trump’s requested mineral rights deal with the US to compensate Americans for the hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money Joe Biden gave them over the last four years, but the agreement was not formalized during Zelensky’s visit to the White House nearly two months ago.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump slammed Zelensky in a call for peace just hours earlier in response to Zelensky’s demands for the territory of Crimea on Tuesday.
Zelensky declared on Tuesday that Ukraine will not recognize Russia’s occupation of Crimea, a statement that President Trump slammed as “very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama” on Wednesday morning.
A reporter asked the president Wednesday evening if he would meet with Zelensky at the Vatican this weekend while attending the Pope’s funeral.
He did not say whether he would be meeting with Zelensky but stated, “I think we have a deal with Russia. We have to get a deal with Zelensky.”
The President then said, “I think we have a deal with both,” making it unclear whether or not Zelensky decided to come to the negotiating table.
Watch below:
Reporter: Are you going to be meeting with President Zelensky? He’s asked to meet with you this weekend. Will you be meeting with him?
Trump: I don’t know that he’s going to the funeral or not, but I just hope he gets this thing solved because we’re losing about—think of this 5,000. I was saying 2,500, and everyone was telling me that’s low. 5,000 soldiers are being killed every week, approximately. Think of that, every week, 5000 soldiers. But let’s say from 3,000 to 5,000 are being killed. They’re Russian and Ukrainian. They’re not Americans, but they’re Russian— but they’re people. And they’re humans. They’re human beings. They have families. They wave goodbye to their son, and then they get a call that the son’s no longer there.
It’s a vicious war, and if I can help solve it, you know we’re not losing our soldiers, but we’re losing soldiers, a lot of people. And if I can solve it because of a certain ability, that would be great. And if it doesn’t happen, I will say that I think Russia is ready. And a lot of people said Russia wanted to go for the whole thing. And I think we have a deal with Russia. We have to get a deal with Zelensky— and I hope that Zelensky— I thought it might be easier to deal with Zelensky. So far, it’s been harder, but that’s okay, it’s all right.
But I think we have a deal with both. I hope they do it, because I’m looking to save— and you know, we spent a lot of money, but this is about a lot of humanity. This is the worst— I get the pictures, the satellite pictures, I’ve never seen anything like it, of the fields after some of these battles, it’s horrible that it’s going for nothing. We would have never had this problem. You would have never had that war if I were president, I guarantee you that. And for four years you did have it.
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