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At a press briefing at the NATO Summit, President Trump was asked about his pledge to end the Russia-Ukraine War in 24 hours.

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00:00Go ahead, right in the back. Yeah, you tall one. The tall man.
00:07Mr. President, Johannes Petra from Austrian National Television.
00:10How are you?
00:11You once said that you would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
00:15You later said you said that sarcastically.
00:17Of course it was sarcastic.
00:19But you've now been in office for five months and five days.
00:23Why have you not been able to end the Ukraine war?
00:26Because it's more difficult than people would have any idea.
00:31Vladimir Putin has been more difficult.
00:33Frankly, I had some problems with Zelensky.
00:36You may have read about him.
00:37And it's been more difficult than other wars.
00:40I mean, look, we just ended a war in 12 days that was simmering for 30 years, frankly.
00:45We ended Rwanda and the Congo.
00:49They're coming to sign the documents.
00:51We've already signed basic documents.
00:53But they're coming, I think, to the White House on Friday.
00:56We ended Serbia was going to go at it.
01:00But maybe the most important of all, India and Pakistan.
01:05And that wasn't whether or not they may someday have nukes like we're talking about in the Middle East,
01:12like we're talking about with Israel and Iran.
01:16This is they have nuclear weapons.
01:18I ended that with a series of phone calls on trade.
01:21I said, look, if you're going to go fighting each other, it's going to it was getting very bad.
01:27You know how bad that last attack was.
01:28It was really bad.
01:30If you're going to go fighting each other, we're not doing any trade deal.
01:32No, no, no.
01:33You have to do a trade deal.
01:34I said, we're not doing any trade deal.
01:37And, in fact, I had the general who really was very impressive.
01:42The general from Pakistan was in my office last week.
01:48You know, Prime Minister Modi is a great friend of mine.
01:50He's a great gentleman.
01:51He's a great man.
01:53And I got them to reason.
01:54I said, we're not doing a trade deal if you're going to fight.
01:56And if you're going to fight each other, we're not doing a trade deal.
01:59And you know what?
02:00They said, no, I want to do the trade deal.
02:01We stopped the nuclear war.
02:03Go ahead.
02:05Go ahead, Jeff.
02:07Here's another beauty, Jeff.
02:10Here's our beauty, all right.
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