President Trump held an impromptu presser aboard Air Force One traveling to New Jersey after July 4th celebrations. Interesting comments about Ukraine and Russia as President Trump took several questions.
At 07:51, “Mr President, are you confident you will be able to find a way to end the fighting in Ukraine?” President Trump responds, “That’s an interesting question”…. WATCH:
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Curious Sundance where you think we’re at with regard to Putin. He’s done no favors for Trump, he’s offered no measures of goodwill. Do you think Trump walks away?
I believe Putin has shown amazing restraint considering NATO is conducting a proxy war against Russia. Russia also did not respond to the bombing in Iran which is a Russian ally. Or how about the incident where Ukraine destroyed part of the Russian nuclear aircraft fleet with obvious help from the western intelligence agencies. Putin is ready to deal with a trustworthy party.
He’s been restrained and I fully appreciate when there was a neocon goon admin. He has no reason for such a hard line approach when he has a reasonable admin trying to end the killing
While Putin claims to be open to peace, his conditions and actions strongly suggest otherwise and he remains unwilling to compromise on key issues. In his phone calls with Putin, all a very disrespected President Trump now gets is the cold shoulder.
Retired Magistrate here: When he was asked about Ukraine he talked about the souls of all the soldiers that were drying. President Trump really understands the human cost of war, how unnecessary it usually is and how war can be avoided by economic measures which benefit both parties. Rather than killing each other, his view is let’s have peace, economic security and everyone can prosper rather than endless wars and killing.
I am certain that President Trump’s upbringing at the NYMA was a great influence. I believe he was there from what we would call 7th or 8th grade until high school graduation.
That academy is near me but, I believe, taken over by a Chinese concern. I hope now that the BBB has been signed, President Trump goes scorched earth in all directions.
Alliance with Orthodox Christian Russia and clean break with Nazi NATO
Thank you ..Colkitto….hopefully FD and others learn ..
I think it’s past due our President took a day vacation. I think he has earned it.
Yep.
By this point in his administration, I wonder how many days off Biden took?
Every day. Joey was not present mentally the entire time in office.
I hate it when you can’t hear or understand the questions.
Apparently so does Trump.
Who keeps telling POTUS that 5-6-7,000 soldiers are dying in the Ukraine/Russia conflict every week??
That’s just not true. Maybe months/years ago it was true. But not now. Not those numbers. Not every week.
Why does he keep saying it?
I’m sure Trump knows the numbers better than yourself or Doug Macgregor. The Ru are advancing likely taking more casualties
9,200 ukr. soldiers been killed last week- RIA news
How can that number be possible? I think somebody is taking license. How many people are estimated to be living in Ukraine?
Same reason they say 200 American Soldiers a day are taking their own lives. It becomes seared in their brains so they repeat whether still true or not.
PS, if that is the current AF1, it needs to be decommissioned.
“He (Putin) wants to go all the way; keep killing people”
President Trump essentially called Putin a mad dog.
“Five thousand souls killed every week…”
The last administration did not have that perspective.
God bless President Trump.
I’m in no way an expert on Putin. However, I do have pretty good powers of observation. That said, my 2 cents is I doubt Putin appreciates the never-ending “RussiaRussiaRussia” hysteria among U.S. politicians and mainstream media clowns. I’m quite sure he doesn’t appreciate the U.S. and others aiding and abetting the activities of the utterly corrupt and ridiculous Zelenskyyyyyy. I also suspect he hasn’t appreciated PDJT’s framing of the war as an event that “would never have happened” had he (Trump) been POTUS when it started. I don’t think Putin appreciates having himself or Russia portrayed as entities under Trump’s control. I suspect those are some of the reasons Putin has been so recalcitrant. Now that PDJT has stepped back from making proclamations that he will put an end to the fighting, Putin may change his approach.
It would have happened because Trump was never really pro Ukraine or nato expansion. Regarding the aiding ukr much of that was done under Biden but it’s not really that different than what the Russians did to the US in Vietnam or the ME
Sundance, watching all these press gaggles not one time has a reporter asked the one question I would ask. Has Ukraines and Zelensky ever agreed to never becoming a member of NATO? That is what started the war and the red line Putin will not allow to be crossed yet no one has ever mentioned it. Why all the pretending. It would end tomorrow.
Trump has stated time and time again that ukr couldn’t join NATO if that was all it took ending it would be easy. Trump has also stated essentially ukr isn’t getting any territory back, he’s also against nato expansion, and offered to have the US take ownership of the NPP to prevent a nuclear Ukraine.
I honestly can’t understand Putins unwillingness to engage in good faith negotiations with Trump who isn’t an ideologue. And before someone comments about the root causes and neocon cynical actions I’m well aware
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/07/03/trump-reveals-how-his-latest-phone-call-with-putin-went-n2191218
President Donald Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, and things didn’t go well. Standing beside Air Force One on the ramp at Joint Base Andrews, Trump told the press that he’s “not happy” while decrying a lack of “any progress” regarding the war in Ukraine.
None of this suggests a peace deal is on the horizon.
Just before the call, Putin left the stage at a conference, claiming that he didn’t want to keep Trump waiting. That led some large right-wing accounts on X to claim it was a sign of respect. Given how the call turned out, that obviously wasn’t the case, and I’m going to be direct about this issue in a way that may tick some people off, though hopefully not.
Here’s the hard truth: Putin does not respect Trump, and he does not respect the United States. At some point, even the most anti-Ukraine parts of the right are going to have to come to terms with that. There is no magic bullet here, and Putin can not be relied on as a rational partner in peace. Does that mean we should go to war with Russia? Of course not. There’s simply no justification for American military involvement given the localized nature of the war and the risks involved, specifically regarding Russia’s nuclear arsenal.
But being skeptical of military and even financial involvement in the war in Ukraine does not mean one has to be naive and blind to who Putin is (or worse). He is still a scumbag with delusions of grandeur who wants to return to some semblance of the Soviet era. He’s given multiple speeches since the start of the war expressing that specific motivation. In other words, this is ultimately an ideological battle for Putin, not a practical one, and that is why a practical resolution has proven so elusive despite the huge number of Russian casualties.
Trump clearly understands that. He’s been publicly criticizing Putin for several months now, including threatening increased sanctions. It’s time to pull the trigger on those, but they will likely not change the current trajectory of the war. So what’s the answer? There may not be one. Sometimes life doesn’t leave any good options, and Putin doesn’t have any reason to end the war absent any internal pressure. What that looks like for the United States, barring some type of miraculous turnaround, is likely more of the same.
Very clear and well thought out response. I don’t know whether now is the right time to push the sanctions or not but I do agree at this point Putin is as much an impediment to peace as Zelensky. I think most reasonable people who aren’t pro Ukraine should be able to see that .
He seems unwilling to actually engage in real substantive talks with Trump even though he’s by far the most pragmatic and open minded president toward RU the US has ever and probably will ever have.
I’m very much against providing offensive weapons to Ukraine but I don’t see a problem in giving AD.
If 27 million Americans were killed by an invading army would you then have some understanding????
What about the nazis running Ukraine behind Zelinsky? What about the laws enacted making Russian ethnics 2nd class citizens in Ukraine? Having lost 27 million people fighting nazi invasion of ww2 the Russians are very touchy about having a nazi regime next door and it’s not just Putin feels this way. The rest of the Government and the people of Russia are solidly supporting this war and the whole point of a war of attrition IS the killing of the nazi regiments soldiers and government. The Russians are NOT going to leave any alive it’s presumptuous of Pres Trump to try to interfere.
The Russians starved 5 million Ukrainians in 31-33. They hate each other. Ever wonder why the Germans were welcomed with bread and flowers in 41?
There is no easy solution as Ukraine can’t join nato and we can’t fund the war indefinitely-