Trump Threatens Tariffs on Russia in Ultimatum to Putin Over Ukraine Peace Deal

TIME

Donald Trump has threatened Russia with “very severe tariffs​” should it fail to reach a cease-fire deal with Ukraine within 50 days, signaling a hardened U.S. stance as the war enters a volatile new phase.

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00:00And one of the reasons that you're here today is to hear that we are very unhappy, I am, with Russia.

00:08But we'll discuss that maybe a different day.

00:11But we're very, very unhappy with them and we're going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days.

00:20Tariffs at about 100%. You'd call them secondary tariffs. You know what that means.

00:25But today we're going to talk about something else. And as you know, we've spent $350 billion approximately on this war with Russia and Ukraine.

00:38And we'd like to see it end. It wasn't my war, it was Biden's war. It's not my war. I'm trying to get you out of it.

00:45And we want to see it end. And I'm disappointed in President Putin because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago.

00:52But it doesn't seem to get there. So based on that, we're going to be doing secondary tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days.

00:59It's very simple. And they'll be at 100%. And that's the way it is. It can be more simple. It's just the way it is.

01:07I hope we don't have to do it.

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