Trump: A Lot Of European Leaders Have “OD’d On Trying To Settle Ukraine”
President Trump commented on his upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin during a press briefing on Monday morning:
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It’s gonna be a big thing. We’re going to Russia. It’s gonna be a big deal. What happens, happens. I’ll let you know what happens-you’ll be the first to know. I’ll be calling the European leaders. I’m going with… totally, I mean, we have a lot of talks. They’re great people, they’re great leaders actually, and they want to get back, honestly. As one of them said, I’ve OD’d on trying to settle Ukraine. They’ve OD’d-meaning they’ve overdosed-on the settlement of Ukraine. Not a nice expression, but boy is it accurate. They’re tired of it. They want to get back to spending money on their countries. You know, we’re in-Biden gave them $ 350 billion. Europe gave $ 100 billion. It should be much more than that. It shouldn’t have been that kind of… they should have had equalization, but they didn’t. But you know what-still, a lot of money. They want to get back to building their own countries. They really want it resolved. My relationship with the European leaders, as you saw, is extremely good. It’s like-it’s perfect. It’s beautiful. Wait, wait, wait, wait-and we’re gonna try. I’ll be in touch with them. I have five of them call me, and you think it’s easy… there are a lot of European leaders, but they rely on me-very much rely on me. If it wasn’t for me, this thing would never get solved until the last person breathing is dead. I’m talking to-right now-I’m talking to the European leaders. I’ll be talking to President Zelensky. I’m going to get everybody’s ideas. I go into that thing fully loaded, right up there, and we’re going to see what happens. Now, I think one of two things is going to happen. It’s gonna be a good meeting and we’ll go a step further-we’ll get it done. I’d like to see a ceasefire very, very quickly. Very quickly. I’d like to see it immediately, but I’d like to see it very quickly. We’re going to be dealing with the European leaders, and we’re going to be dealing with President Zelensky, and hopefully we’re going to have a great success. As far as this-what we did today-I think you were here for D.C. more so than even Russia, because Russia will be… you know, we have a couple of days to go, but the Russia meeting is gonna be very interesting. But to me, what is very exciting is we’re gonna take back our capital, we’re gonna make it beautiful again, but more importantly, safe again. It’s gonna be so safe. It’s gonna be a model. And then we’ll look at other cities also. But other cities are studying what we’re doing, and you have some capable people in other cities-they can do it too. But we have a great group of professionals. We’re gonna have a safe, beautiful capital, and it’s gonna happen very quickly. Thank you all. Thank you all very much.
