[Q]: Mr President thank you so much for joining us thank you um we got a readout of your call
with Vladimir Putin and it was a fairly optimistic take uh Vladimir Putin agreed to a cease re
immediately on energy and infrastructure but not to a 30-day cease re tell us what happened?
[DT]: Well, you have a situation where you have a lot of guns pointing at each other foolishly
because it would have never happened if I were president that was not a war that was supposed
to happen and uh it did happen so that's where we are and right now you have a lot of guns
pointing at each other and a cease re without going a little bit further would have been tough uh
Russia has the advantage as you know they have encircled about 2,500 soldiers they're nicely
encircled and that's not good and we want to get it over with.
Look, we're doing this there are no Americans involved there could be if you end up in World War
II over this which is so ridiculous but you know strange things happen and I think we we had a
great call it lasted almost two hours talked about a lot of things and toward getting it to peace and
we talked about other things also.
[Q]: Was there non-negotiables mentioned by Putin it was reported that uh I think the Kremlin
media actually stated that he demanded an immediate sessation of aid to Ukraine in order to get
to the get to this multi-step deal?
[DT]: No, he didn't. We didn't talk about aid. Actually, we didn't talk about aid at all uh, we talked
about a lot of things but aid was never discussed.
🟢 Repetition. Persuasion? Did they talk about it but disagreed..?
🟡 The word actually is used for emphasis, and it also indicates that the speaker is
comparing two thoughts. Trump knows that everybody expected them to talk about aid.
🔵 ”At all” is unnecessary and should be considered a mean to convince/pursuade.
🔴 Very interesting words, and as they are unnecessary, we understand that it was
important for Trump to let us know that they talked about a lot of things. He minimizes the
importance of the aid discussion.
🟣 He nishes by relating the discussion about aid in passive language, which shows
distance.
⚫ Both ”never” and ”actually” are words that liars very often use. ”Never”, in the way it’s
used here is very likely to be a lie.
[Q]: In the readout it also stated that both sides want to get to an improved bilateral relationship
the United States and Russia that's true how can we trust that Vladimir Putin actually wants that
and that he's not also being in uenced at the same time by his close friend um President Xi of
China?
[DT]: Well, look we have our own discussions with President Xi of China and he wants to get
along also and he's looking to get along and we're looking to get along with him and we will we
have a problem of trade where we have a very big imbalance with China with Russia we don't
have that much trade and they'd like to and we'd like to also they have some very valuable things
for us including very big forms of rare earth they have a lot of earth you know they have uh a big
chunk of real estate the biggest actually the biggest in the world for a country by far and on that
they have things that we could use frankly and they that other people could use i think that
President Xi would like to get along and I think Russia wants to get along with the United States i
also think we're a much di erent country than we were.
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Just a few months ago we're a country that's now respected we were not respected we were
being laughed at we had incompetent leadership this was a war as an example that would have
never happened if I were president is part of your desire to forge this new relationship with Russia
also impacted by Russia's closer relationship since you left o ce in 2021 uh with China because I
think you talked about before the desire to box out China from that part of the world and have a
[Q]: The criticism that you've heard since really 2015 is that you have more in common with
Vladimir Putin than you do with globalist leaders maybe some NATO leaders and in this case uh
with Zelenskyy um you're both nationalists uh Zelenskyy is more of a globalist how do you
respond to that criticism?
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Well, I am a nationalist but I'm a nationalist for the United States not for anybody else and it's
interesting because there's nobody been tougher on Russia than me i'm the one that pointed out
Nordstream too and I stopped it nordstream is the biggest pipeline I guess in the world taking
care of all of Europe and it was being built from before I got there and they somehow they were on
the way it was going to be and I stopped it it was just stone cold dead i stopped it in its tracks
that's not somebody that's being particularly the biggest project they ever had i had it stopped
when Biden got in he immediately approved it like immediately one of the rst things he did in
o ce was he approved Nordstream 2 nobody ever heard of Nordstream till until I was president i
said "What are you doing you mean you're building a pipeline to Germany and various places in
Europe you're paying them billions of dollars a month and then we're paying a lot of money to
ght them this does not this is not going to work out well and it stopped and then Biden approved
it which was a really stupid thing to do but he did it uh and Putin actually said to me if you're my
friend I'd hate to see you as my enemy he said that very strongly uh but I had with all of that I had
a very good relationship with Putin.
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closer relationship with Russia so as a student of history which I am and uh I've watched it all the
rst thing you learn is you don't want Russia and China to get together with that being said no it's
not a big part of it but maybe that'll happen or maybe it won't Obama really forced them together
through energy and bad energy policies and what he did so many di erent things he forced a
marriage which would never have taken place it was not a natural and for one reason Russia has
tremendous land a lot of land and China doesn't have enough land Russia has a much smaller
population than China and it's sort of a natural it was always a natural enemy situation uh they're
probably friendly now but we're going to be friendly with both i think we're going to be friendly
with both uh China needs us in terms of trade very badly and uh but we have to straighten out the
de cit we have now more than a trillion dollar de cit with China it's not even believable and we're
going to be doing something about that and with Russia uh they would like to have some of our
economic power