President Donald Trump revealed Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend the 2026 FIFA World Cup game in the United States and issued a new deadline for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
The president said he was hoping that a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would happen soon, as he spoke to reporters from the Oval Office on Friday, one week after his historic summit in Alaska with the Russian president.
He said it would clear within the next 'two weeks' whether or not the meeting would happen, leaning on a familiar timetable he's used repeatedly during his second term.
'I think over the next two weeks, we're going to find out which way it's going to go,' he said. 'And, I better be very happy.'
Trump again said he would respond with 'massive sanctions' or 'massive tariffs' if the planned meeting did not happen - a pledge he's promised before and failed to deliver on. He also left open the possibility of doing nothing at all.
