US President, Donald Trump has said Russian leader Vladimir Putin cannot mess with him.as the two world leaders prepare to meet for talks in Alaska on Friday.
Speaking to the media in the White House about his meeting with Putin, Trump said that, if he wasn’t president, Putin would “much rather… take over all of Ukraine”, adding: “But I am president, and he’s not going to mess around with me”
Trump said he would know in the first few minutes whether he and Putin would “have a good meeting”, saying that it would “end very quickly” otherwise
His goal for the talks, he said, is to “set the table” for another meeting with the Russian leader and Ukraine’s President Zelensky
Speaking to Fox News Radio earlier in the day, Trump said if it is a “good meeting” he will call Zelensky to arrange another, but added there’s a “25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting”
And the US president said there would have to be some “give and take” on boundaries between Russia and Ukraine
