I don’t want to waste time…a shocking comment from Trump reduces the chance of meeting Putin

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I don’t want to waste time…a shocking comment from Trump reduces the chance of meeting Putin

The American President said Donald Trump The possibility of an unproductive meeting prompted him to suspend his efforts to hold a summit with the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He said Trump to reporters at the White House when asked about the reason for postponing the meeting: "I don’t want to have an empty meeting, and I don’t want to waste time, so I’ll see what happens"

A meeting not in the near future

A US official said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump does not intend to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin In the near future, days after announcing a meeting in the next two weeks in Budapest.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a phone call on Monday with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov after Trump announced that the two ministers would meet this week to arrange a summit in the Hungarian capital.

The American official said: "There is no need for an additional meeting between the two foreign ministers, and President Trump is not scheduled to meet President Putin anytime soon"

The official described the call between Rubio and Lavrov as… "Fruitful".

The Kremlin also announced the absence "Specific time frame" To hold the summit.

Trump is upset with Putin

Trump made his dissatisfaction with Putin known after he had long bragged about his ability to end the war the day after his return to the White House thanks to his personal harmony with the Russian president.
Putin spoke by phone on Thursday with Trump, who was scheduled to meet the next day with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. To discuss supplying missiles to Kyiv "Tomahawk" American-made, capable of penetrating Russian territory.

Trump indicated that the call represented progress, and was quick to announce on social networks that he would meet Putin in Budapest within two weeks.

This constituted the latest surprising turn on the part of Trump, who received Putin in August in Alaska in the Russian president’s first visit to the West since he ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February. 2022.