Franco Ordoñez
President Trump takes questions from reporters at the White House on August 8, 2025.
President Trump said on Monday that he plans to use a Friday summit in Alaska to gauge whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to end his war on Ukraine — and said he'd been disappointed in the past in Putin's actions.
"This is really a feel-out meeting, a little bit," Trump told reporters, predicting he would know "probably in the first two minutes" whether a deal would be possible.
"I may say, 'Lots of luck, keep fighting.' Or I may say, 'We can make a deal,'" Trump said.
