--- title: Vladimir Putin: Donald Trump Calls Putin Compliment an Honor description: Presidential candidate Donald Trump praised Vladmir Putin Thursday and said receiving a compliment from the leader was an "honor." canonical: https://time.com/4154409/donald-trump-vladmir-putin-compliment-great-honor/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-18T01:35:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:49.311Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Calls Putin Compliment a 'Great Honor' og:description: Putin praised Trump at a press conference og:url: https://time.com/4154409/donald-trump-vladmir-putin-compliment-great-honor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta06ffd497a08f648/698875fda988ca146c6b5c8b/donald-trump-putin.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4909 og:image:height: 2761 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Putin og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Calls Putin Compliment a 'Great Honor' twitter:description: Putin praised Trump at a press conference twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta06ffd497a08f648/698875fda988ca146c6b5c8b/donald-trump-putin.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Calls Putin Compliment a 'Great Honor' > Sponsored content. 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Scott Olson—Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Dec 18, 2015 1:35 AM UTC GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump praised Russian President Vladmir Putin Thursday and said receiving a [compliment](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/263660-trump-calls-highly-respected-putins-comments-a-great-honor) from the Russian leader was a “great honor.” “It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond,” Trump said at a rally in Ohio, the _Hill_ reports. Earlier Thursday, Putin had praised Trump as [“bright and talented”](http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/russia-putin-trump/) during a press conference. Trump has previously said that he would [“get along very well with Vladimir Putin.”](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-id-get-along-very-well-with-vladimir-putin/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4154409/donald-trump-vladmir-putin-compliment-great-honor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4154409/donald-trump-vladmir-putin-compliment-great-honor/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Calls Putin Compliment a 'Great Honor'","datePublished":"2015-12-18T01:35:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:46:49.311Z","description":"Putin praised Trump at a press conference","url":"https://time.com/4154409/donald-trump-vladmir-putin-compliment-great-honor/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta06ffd497a08f648/698875fda988ca146c6b5c8b/donald-trump-putin.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta06ffd497a08f648/698875fda988ca146c6b5c8b/donald-trump-putin.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Putin","caption":"Donald Trump Putin","creditText":"Scott Olson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4154409/donald-trump-vladmir-putin-compliment-great-honor/","name":"Donald Trump Calls Putin Compliment a 'Great Honor'"}}]}] ```