Trump said that it took a week to find out if Putin wants to end the invasion and said he was ready to “sit with the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelnski and Putin, if necessary” to lead to a truce.
He admitted that Putin may intentionally delay the negotiations about the suspension of weapons and stated that he was disappointed in the latest Bomb attacks by Russia for Ukrainian goals.
When asked why he does not support the plan to implement subsequent sanctions that would affect the Russian energy sector, Trump said that “since he thinks he is close to the conclusion of a deal, he does not want to screw it up.”
Trump: It's a nasty situation
The president assured that his administration deals with humanitarian problems in the Gaza Strip and providing food supplies to the enclave. “It's a nasty situation,” he added.
Speaking in front of journalists gathered in the oval office, Trump also referred to tensions between Israel and Iran. He said that he talked to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and told him not to undertake any military operations against Iran, so as not to deraise nuclear negotiations with this country, because the US conducted “very good discussions” with Tehran and are “close to solutions” of the Iranian nuclear program.
The president also referred to the draft budget act criticized by some senators and emphasized that in order to be accepted, all Republicans in both chambers of Congress must support her.
The bill was also criticized by Elon Musk, whom Trump appointed at the beginning of the term as the head of the Department for Government Performance (Doge). In an interview with CBS News television, Musk estimated that the proposed budget law eliminates treatments to reduce the state budget deficit. However, Trump announced further negotiations on the project and stated that he himself “is not satisfied with some of his aspects.”
When asked about decisions on customs policy, Trump said that “he did not accumulate in the case of customs” and withdrew from the plan to impose them, and criticizing him for introducing new tariffs and then suspends them is a mistake. “It's called negotiations,” he said.
Trump versus Harvard. “He treats our country with great disrespect”
He also returned to the issue of Harvard University, which has been the purpose of the White House for some time. He estimated that foreign students should constitute no more than 15 percent. all students of this university, and that you should make sure that “they love our country”. In addition, Harvard would provide his administration list of current students from abroad.
Harvard must start to behave well. Harvard treats our country with great disrespect and does it more and more – he added.
Trump also said that he was considering pardoning two men convicted in 2022 for participating in a conspiracy aimed at organizing a group of extremists and kidnapping a democratic state governor Michigan Gretchen Whitmer. “These men drank and said something stupid,” he said. Immediately after the inauguration of his second term, Trump pardoned the participants of the assault, which his supporters assumed on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
