President Trump Asked Point Blank If Feels That Vladimir Putin Respects Him

During a meeting on Monday with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, President Trump spoke about Russia and his relationship with Vladimir Putin.

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00:00and very bad yeah I've always gotten along with President Putin I've had a

00:19great relationship with him and he went through the Russia Russia Russia hugs

00:23too you know I mean it was we used to talk about it we used to say you know

00:27it's too bad we really can't do anything between our country because if we did

00:31they say oh you know some look I was tough on Putin because I was the one that

00:36closed up Nord Stream and Biden came along and opened it up I was very tough

00:41on Putin in one way but we got along very well and I never you know I never

00:48really thought this would happen I thought we'd be able to negotiate

00:50something and maybe that'll still happen but it's it's very late down the

00:54process so I'm disappointed and you know the funny thing is that their

00:59economy isn't that big and it's having a hard time right now but it's a relatively

01:03small economy a strong military but strong economy and it used to be a strong

01:09economy now it's not he's going through a lot economically it's not easy but it's

01:16pretty small you know compared to that magnificent size of that land the land is

01:21massive it's got I guess nine time zones or something it's a massive piece of land

01:26Russia could be so rich it could be so rich it could be thriving like practically no

01:35other country and they're holding that back because we can't he wants to do trade

01:42deals with us he talks about it all the time he wanted to and I envision that a lot of

01:48trade with Russia they have a lot of valuable things when you talk about rare

01:51earth they have serious rare earth right they have just about every form you can

01:55have so you know Russia could be such so rich right now instead they spend all

02:03their money on war they spend everything on war and killing people it doesn't

02:08make sense to me I thought he would want to end this thing quickly I really felt it

02:13was gonna end but every time I think it's gonna end he he kills people I don't

02:21know I'm not you know I'm not so interested in talking anymore he said he

02:29talks we have such nice conversations such respectful and nice conversations and

02:33then people die the following night in a with a missile going into a town and

02:38hitting I mean recently I guess the nursing home but they hit other things whatever

02:43they hit people die so I don't know we'll see what happens

02:48you