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## Video: Trump Says His Meeting With Putin Will Be "Big," Insists it Won't Be a "Reward" for Putin

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_Published 2025-08-14. President Donald Trump warned that "severe consequences" lie ahead for Russia if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't agree to stop the Ukraine war after they meet for a high-stakes summit in Alaska on Friday._


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## Transcript

We have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow. I think it's going to be a good meeting, but the more important meeting will be the second meeting that we're having. We're going to have a meeting with President Putin, President Zelensky, myself, and maybe we'll bring some of the European leaders along, maybe not. It's I don't know that it's going to be very important. We're going to see what happens. And I think President Putin will make peace. I think President Zelensky will make peace. We'll see if they can get along and if they can, it'll be great. You know, I've solved six wars in the last six months.

Little more than six months now. Mr. President. Go ahead please, Mr. President. Thank you. Do you think this summit and the incentives for peace you were putting on the table, uh, could end up rewarding Putin for his invasion of Ukraine? And what kind of signal do you think that could potentially send to other aggressors? No, I don't think it's a reward. I think that what we have is a situation that should never have started, should never started. It didn't start under me, and for four years it wasn't even discussed and I could see it was going to happen. After I left, I could see what was happening.

Everything that we did was wrong. Everything that was done was wrong. Everybody's to blame. Putin's to blame. They're all to blame. This is a war that would have never happened. Well, he came to our country and I heard, uh, CNN fake news talking about that. That was a big win for him. Normally you would say the opposite, but they said, oh, it's a big win that he came here. Normally he would say the opposite. You know, he came here. Uh, I think that President Putin would like to see a deal. I think if I weren't president, he would take over all of Ukraine. It's a war that should have never happened.

Mr. president, if I weren't president, in my opinion, he would much rather take off. Take over all of Ukraine. But I am president, and he's not going to mess around with me. And would you support or agree to reducing NATO troops in Europe. In countries like Poland, in order to get Russia to agree to a peace deal. That hasn't been put before me. And I'll think about that for later, but it has not been put before me. Go ahead. Is anything less than an unconditional and immediate cease fire a victory for the US tomorrow? Yes. Well, tomorrow we'll see. I say, you know, I don't know where that comes from.

It's sort of a not a good question. I would say that tomorrow all I want to do is set the table for the next meeting, which should happen shortly. I'd like to see it happen very quickly, very shortly after this meeting. I'd like to see it actually happen, maybe in Alaska, where we just stay because it's so much easier. But I think that, uh, I think it's going to be very interesting. We're going to find out where everybody stands, and I'll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, 4 minutes or 5 minutes, like we tend to find out whether or not we're going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting.

And if it's a bad meeting, it will end very quickly. And if it's a good meeting, we're going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future. Okay.

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