Donald Trump said he didn’t call Vladimir Putin in front of European leaders that he’d invited to the White House because he was worried that would be “disrespectful” to the Russian leader.
In an interview with Fox & Friends Tuesday, Trump was asked about his call with Putin a day earlier—the same day that European leaders assembled in Washington, D.C. for a peace summit on Putin’s war in Ukraine.
“I didn’t do it in front of them, I thought that would be disrespectful to President Putin, you know I wouldn’t do that, because they have not had the warmest relations and actually President Putin wouldn’t talk to people from Europe. I mean, that was part of the problem,” Trump said.
Trump also spoke of meeting Putin during their summit in Alaska last Friday, which saw the president literally roll out the red carpet for Putin and usher him into a presidential limousine for an informal chat before the ceremony began.
“You saw that when he got off his plane, I got off my plane, there’s a warmth there that you can’t, you know, there’s a decent feeling, and it’s a good thing, not a bad thing,” the president told Fox & Friends.
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