On Sunday, Trump revealed insights from his discussions with global leaders during his first international trip since securing a second term, including a trilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and Zelensky.
“He wants to make peace,” Trump told the New York Post in a phone interview. “That’s new.”
“He wants to have a ceasefire,” he added. “He wants to make peace. We didn’t talk about the details. He thinks it’s time, and Putin should think it’s time because he’s lost — when you lose 700,000 people, it’s time. It’s not going to end until there’s a peace.”
Trump did say he spoke to Zelensky about how to end the nearly three-year-old war which began in February 2022. “I’m formulating a concept of how to end that ridiculous war,” said Trump.
Trump also pointed to his Truth Social post, where he mentioned Russia in the context of the fall of the Syrian government.
“What happened there was Russia was not able to step up to the plate because they were all bogged down in this horrible war that never should have happened in Ukraine,” he said.
