--- ---  # Donald Trump Thinks He and Vladimir Putin Would Get Along Just Great by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jul 30, 2015 4:52 PM UTC  Donald Trump at the Women's British Open golf championship in Turnberry, Scotland on July 30, 2015. Donald Trump at the Women's British Open golf championship in Turnberry, Scotland on July 30, 2015.Scott Heppell—AP by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jul 30, 2015 4:52 PM UTC Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said he is confident he would “get along very well with Vladimir Putin,” despite the contentious relationship the Russian president has had with the United States in recent years. “I think I would get along very well with Vladimir Putin. I just think so. People say, ‘What do you mean?’ I think I would get along well with him,” Trump told reporters in Glasgow, Scotland, where he is attending the women’s British Open being played at a golf course he owns. “He hates Obama, Obama hates him. We have unbelievably bad relationships. Hillary Clinton was… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-says-he-would-get-along-very-well-putin-n401051?cid=par-time-article%5F20150730) Donald Trump Thinks He Would 'Get Along Very Well' With Putin ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3978915/donald-trump-putin-comment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3978915/donald-trump-putin-comment/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Thinks He and Vladimir Putin Would Get Along Just Great","datePublished":"2015-07-30T16:52:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:45:07.886Z","description":"\"I think I would get along very well with Vladimir Putin. I just think so.\"","url":"https://time.com/3978915/donald-trump-putin-comment/","keywords":["Donald Trump","russia","Vladimir Putin"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17a4b442c5218046/69885d372dce01abc89e4dc6/donald-trump28.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17a4b442c5218046/69885d372dce01abc89e4dc6/donald-trump28.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump at the Women's British Open golf championship in Turnberry, Scotland on July 30, 2015.","caption":"Donald Trump at the Women's British Open golf championship in Turnberry, Scotland on July 30, 2015.","creditText":"Scott Heppell—AP","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/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3978915/donald-trump-putin-comment/","name":"Donald Trump Thinks He and Vladimir Putin Would Get Along Just Great"}}]}] ```