Trump has declared he’s done waiting on Putin, setting a strict new deadline of “10 or 12 days” for Russia to take action—though he stopped short of specifying exact consequences. Frustrated by what he called a complete lack of progress, Trump announced he's no longer interested in talking to the Russian President, signaling a potential breakdown in backchannel diplomacy.
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00:00Well, I don't want to use the word like. All I know is we'd have a good talk, and it seemed on, let's say, three occasions, it seemed that we were going to have a ceasefire and maybe peace, and you divide it up and you do whatever you have to do that, obviously, to get to the end.
00:14And all of a sudden, missiles are flying into Kiev and other places. And I say, what's that all about? I spoke to them three, four hours ago, and it looked like we were on our way.
00:27And then I'd say, forget it, and I'm not going to. I'm going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today. There's no reason they're waiting. There's no reason they're waiting. It's 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made.
00:48We can all sense your frustration with Vladimir Putin. Do you think he has been lying to you about his intentions in Ukraine?
00:55Well, I don't want to use the word like. All I know is we'd have a good talk, and it seemed on, let's say, three occasions, it seemed that we were going to have a ceasefire and maybe peace, and you divide it up and you do whatever you have to do that, obviously, to get to the end.
01:10And all of a sudden, missiles are flying into Kiev and other places. And I say, what's that all about? I spoke to him three, four hours ago, and it looked like we were on our way. And then I'd say, forget it, and I'm not going to talk anymore.
01:28You know, this has happened on too many occasions, and I don't like it. I don't like it.
01:35I'm going to make a new deadline of about 10 or 12 days from today. There's no reason they're waiting. There's no reason they're waiting. It's 50 days. I want to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made.
01:52I'm not, you know, I'm not so interested in talking anymore. He's, he talks, we have such nice conversations, such respectful and nice conversations, and then people die the following night, and I'm with a missile going into a town and hitting, I mean, recently, I guess, the nursing home, but they hit other things.
02:13Whatever they hit, people die.
02:16Another funny thing is that their economy isn't that big, and it's having a hard time right now, but it's a relatively small economy.
02:24Strong military, but strong economy. And it used to be a strong economy. Now it's not. He's going through a lot economically. It's not easy, but it's pretty small, you know, compared to that magnificent size of that land.
02:39The land is massive. It's got, I guess, nine time zones or something. It's a massive piece of land.
02:47Russia could be so rich. It could be so rich. It could be thriving like practically no other country.
02:56And they're holding that back because we can't, he wants to do trade deals with us. He talks about it all the time. He wanted to.
03:03And I envision that. A lot of trade with Russia. They have a lot of valuable things. When you talk about rare earth, they have serious rare earth, right?
03:12They have just about every form you can have. So, you know, Russia could be such, so rich right now.
03:20Instead, they spend all their money on war.
03:24They spend everything on war and killing people, and it doesn't make sense to me.
03:27I thought he would want to end this thing quickly. I really felt it was going to end, but every time I think it's going to end, he kills people.
