Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska for historic summit

 August 15, 2025   |    118 views

US President Donald Trump said he believes Vladimir Putin wants to make peace in Ukraine, and that the Russian president will not “mess around” at their summit today in Alaska.

“We’re gonna find out where everybody stands. And I’ll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes or five minutes… whether or not we’re going to have a good meeting or a bad,” Trump told reporters in the White House on Thursday.

“And if it’s a bad meeting, it’ll end very quickly. And if it’s a good meeting, we’re going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future,” he warned.

Trump has long claimed that Putin would not have launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 if he had been president, and said Thursday that the war “should have never happened.”