Trump Details Call With Ukraine's Zelensky From This Morning As Meeting With Putin Nears

Speaking to reporters at the Kennedy Center, President Trump was asked about his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from this morning.

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00:00Go ahead, please. In the back. Yeah, please. Mr. President, how were your calls this morning with

00:06European leaders? And was it your call not to invite President Zelensky to your meeting with

00:11Putin? No, just the opposite. No, no. We had a very good call. He was on the call. President

00:16Zelensky was on the call. I would rate it a 10, you know, very, very friendly. I know the leaders

00:23because I was at NATO, as you know, I took it from 2 percent to 5 percent. 2 percent that wasn't paid,

00:295 percent that is paid, which is trillions of dollars in defense capability. No, it was always

00:37going to be I was going to meet with President Putin. And then after that, I'm going to call

00:41the leaders and President Zelensky. I'm going to call President Zelensky and then I'll call probably

00:48in that order the leaders. There's a very good chance that we're going to have a second meeting,

00:52which will be more productive than the first, because the first is I'm going to find out

00:56where we are and what we're doing. Again, this is Biden's war. This isn't my war. He got us into

01:01this thing and it should have never happened. This war would have never happened if I were president.

01:07But it is what it is. And I'm here to fix it. And I'm here to stop 6,000, 7,000 people last week,

01:137,213 people last week were killed, mostly soldiers. But missiles being lobbed into towns don't

01:20exactly help either. But mostly soldiers and Ukrainian and Russian. They're not American

01:26soldiers. But, you know, if we can save a lot of lives, it would be a great thing. I've done

01:30I've done five. I've stopped five wars in the last six months. And on top of that, we wiped out the

01:37nuclear capability of Iran, obliterated it. It's turned out to be a correct word, by the way,

01:43because, you know, some of the press say, well, maybe it wasn't obliteration. It was obliteration.

01:48And we're going to meet with, I would say, the second meeting. If the first one goes OK,

01:56we'll have a quick second one. I would like to do it almost immediately. And we'll have a quick

02:01second meeting between President Putin and President Zelensky and myself, if they'd like to

02:07have me there. And that would be a meeting where maybe it could be absolutely work. But the first

02:13meeting will not work that out. Certain great things can be gained in the first. It's going to

02:17be a very important meeting. But it's setting the table for the second meeting. I think the second

02:22meeting, if the second meeting takes place, now there may be no second meeting, because if I feel

02:28that it's not appropriate to have it, because I didn't get the answers that we have to have, then

02:33we're not going to have a second meeting.