Does Putin Care What Trump Thinks?

Trump says he’s “disappointed but not done” with Putin. Does it matter to Moscow? Gemma White weighs in.

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00:00Trump continues this strong rhetoric that we're seeing as well with Putin.

00:04He's not done with him yet. Are you convinced by that?

00:07I am. It's the same rhetoric we hear quite a lot from him.

00:11The impatient parent who is done with the errant child.

00:16Now what he said is, I'm disappointed in him, but I'm not done with him, but I'm disappointed in him.

00:22That's two disappointeds there. Any child knows that when a parent says that, they mean business.

00:27So I do believe Trump when he says this.

00:30I think Russia, the conflict has been a thorn in his side for quite a long time.

00:37I think he really genuinely thought it would be done by now.

00:41I think he thought his relationship with Putin would have allowed for it to have been sorted by now.

00:47And remember the big promise that he would have sorted it within 24 hours when first taking office.

00:51He later said it was a joke.

00:52A bit after 24 hours.

00:53But yeah, we're a little bit 24 hours. It's a long 24 hours.

00:56But yeah, I do think the question is now, does Putin sort of care what Trump thinks of him?