'It's Gotta Stop': Donald Trump Threatens Tariffs If Agreement Is Not Made On Russia-Ukraine War

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During a meeting with the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, President Donald Trump spoke about the Russia-Ukraine War.

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00:00Do good. The only one we haven't been able to get to yet is Russia. I'm not happy. And I will tell

00:06you that Ukraine wants to do something. Again, it's a war that should have never started. If I

00:11were president, it never would have happened. I used to speak to President Putin about it a lot.

00:16It was the apple of his eye. But once I saw what was going on, I said, you know, they're going to

00:21have a war here. I was outside. Election was rigged. And I was outside looking in. And I said,

00:28you know, that thing's going to be a war. Couldn't believe it. Because what Biden said

00:31was the exact opposite of what should have been said. And it started. And it's a real mess. We're

00:39losing, I guess they're losing five or 6,000 people a day. It's actually now more. I used to,

00:44I was saying 5,000 a day. It's actually more now. Mostly soldiers, but a lot of people in cities

00:50and towns that are getting blown up to a horrible war. And it should be stopped. And so if it's not

00:55done, if we don't have an agreement in 50 days, that's what we're doing. Secondary tariffs.

01:01And they're biting. And I hope we don't get to the point where we do. But I've been hearing

01:06so much talk. It's all talk. It's all talk. And then missiles go into Kiev and kill 60 people.

01:15It's got to stop. It's got to stop. But the purpose of this is to say that this is a very big deal

01:22we've made. This is billions of dollars worth of military equipment is going to be purchased

01:27from the United States going to NATO, et cetera. And that's going to be quickly distributed to

01:34the battlefield. Ukraine will take it up. And, you know, say what you want about Ukraine.

01:40When the war started, they had no chance. And they still would have had no chance if the equipment,

01:47they had the best equipment because we do make the best planes and missiles. And we make the best

01:53military equipment in the world by far. We have new things coming out that are beyond belief. And

01:59I'm very excited about the Golden Dome. It's going to give us very strong protection. We've already

02:06started that. But they had courage because somebody has to use that equipment. And they fought with

02:13tremendous courage. And they continue to fight with tremendous courage. But they don't have,

02:18they're losing on equipment. And Russia's really taken a very positive, very, very strong. I mean,

02:26what they've done the last couple of weeks. Without military reasons. So what they're doing is

02:30700 drones a day, missiles, bombing cities. This is not because of military goals. It is just

02:37creating panic. Hitting towns. Keeping people out of their sleeps. Hitting towns. It's really

02:42terrible. And it is meaning a lot of people lose their lives. But also the infrastructure,

02:47whole cities being destroyed. Well, they're wiping out the electric. It's going to take years to

02:51rebuild it. That's going to be the next problem. But that's going to take a long time. Many of the

02:58cities are knocked down to the ground. Many of the people have left. But many have stayed. I don't

03:04know. They actually stay. Most have stayed, actually. It's incredible that they stay and

03:09knowing that a missile could be hitting your apartment house and your apartment house that

03:14you're sitting in could collapse on top of you. And they do very heavy construction. They don't use

03:19rebar. They do very thick concrete construction. Those are heavy buildings, big buildings and heavy

03:25buildings. And they collapse like, like they're made out of paper. It's unbelievable to see this

03:30happening with people. So many people being killed. So we think we're going to make progress

03:35and we hope we're going to make progress. In the meantime, we're going to get you good

03:38service on what you need. And we really became friendly with NATO this last meeting. You know,

03:44we went from 2 percent to 5 percent, which everyone said was not even a possibility. They weren't

03:49paying 2 percent. Many of them were paying much less than 2 percent. But even those, since you

03:54became president, all committed to the 2 percent before the summit and now collectively committed

03:58to the 5 percent. That's right. They did. They've been very good. And I think I made

04:02a lot of friends over there. We had a couple of days of very intensive talks. And they're

04:07great people. They're leaders of countries, leaders of countries, many of them great countries,

04:13some of them smaller countries. But for the most part, I'd say very solid, strong countries

04:17and very successful. Some of them are among the most successful countries in the world.

04:23So that's the story. We hope that's going to have an impact on Vladimir Putin. And we hope

04:30it's going to have an impact on Ukraine also. We want to make sure that Ukraine does what

04:35they have to do. All of a sudden they have, they may feel emboldened or maybe they don't

04:39want. You know, this is a very difficult situation.

04:43Ukraine wants a peace deal. I think so. And they will stay committed to that. There's

04:47no doubt. They want it. But the Russians have to become. They have to continue to want

04:50it though. Yeah, I agree. We will. You and I will make sure of that. You and I will make

04:55sure of that. We'll make sure. I feel confident that they will do what has to be done. Plus

05:00we have certain parameters that both sides know. And we already know what should be done.

05:05So I think that's going to be, it's going to be very strong. We want everlasting peace.

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