(14 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Washington, DC – 14 August 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"We’re going to see what happens with our meeting. We have a big meeting, and it’s going to be, I think, very important for Russia, and it’s gonna be very important to us, and important for us only that we’re going to save a lot of lives."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"I think it’s a good meeting, but the more important meeting will be the second meeting that we are having. We’re gonna have a meeting with President Putin, President Zelenskyy, myself, and maybe we’ll bring some of the European leaders along, maybe not, I don’t know that it’s very important, we’re gonna see what happens. And I think President Putin will make peace. I think President Zelenskyy 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, a little more than six months now. And I’m very proud of it. I thought the easiest one would be this one. It’s actually the most difficult."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
" 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, four minutes, or five minutes. We tend to find out whether or not we’re gonna have a good meeting or a bad meeting. And if it’s a bad, meeting it’ll end very quickly. And if its a good, meeting we’re going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future."
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4. UPSOUND (English) Reporter question:
"Do you think this summit and the incentives for peace you were putting on the table could end up rewarding Putin for his invasion of Ukraine?"
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"No, I don’t think it’s a reward. 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. If I weren’t president, in my opinion, he would much rather take over, take over all of the Ukraine, but I am president, and he’s not gonna mess around with me."
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump says his meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday will be a “big meeting” and "a good meeting,” but that “the more important meeting is the second meeting we’re having” with Putin and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In comments to reporters in the Oval Office, the president suggested he may even bring in European leaders for the second discussion after meeting with Putin.
Trump said he believes that both Putin and Zelenskyy want to make peace and rejected the notion that the summit on U.S. soil is a win for Putin, insisting, “I don’t think it’s a reward.”
Some analysts have suggested that, simply by agreeing to meet with Putin on U.S. soil, Trump is undermining longstanding U.S. and international efforts to isolate Putin and Russia.
"He’s not going to mess around with me," Trump said of Putin.
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