After his highly criticized Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin ended without reaching a ceasefire agreement in the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump now says he thinks it would be “better” if Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met without him.
Speaking Wednesday on “The Mark Levin Show,” Trump made the statement despite claiming to conservative podcaster Mark Levin that he had “very successful” exchanges with both leaders.
“I had a very successful meeting with President Putin. I had a very successful meeting with President Zelenskyy. And now I thought it would be better if they met without me, just to see. I want to see what goes on. You know, they had a hard relationship, very bad, very bad relationship,” Trump said.
He continued, “And now we’ll see how they do and, if necessary, and it probably would be, but if necessary, I’ll go and I’ll probably be able to get it close.”
Trump went on to say that “they’re in the process of setting it up and we’re gonna see what happens,” adding, “But you gotta stop the killing, Mark, it’s too much killing.”
