Trump admin live updates: Trump wants to meet with Putin on Ukraine 'as soon as we can set it up

Trump admin live updates: Trump wants to meet with Putin on Ukraine 'as soon as we can set it up

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Last Updated: May 16, 2025, 3:03 PM +06

President Trump arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday after delivering a campaign-style speech at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

Trump's UAE visit makes him only the second serving American president to visit the country.

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Trump wants to meet with Putin on Ukraine 'as soon as we can set it up'

President Trump on Friday said he wants to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin "as soon as we can set it up" to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.

"We're going to do it. I actually think it's time for us to do it," he said.

Trump said he would meet Putin "as soon as we can set it up."

"I would actually leave here and go. I do want to see my beautiful grandson, and we'll be doing that," Trump said, referencing the birth of his daughter Tiffany's son on Thursday.

He suggested that "in two or three weeks" the world could be "a much, much safer place."

"I will tell you that the world is a much safer place right now, and I think in two or three weeks we could have it be a much, much safer place," Trump said. "We're going to handle a couple of situations that you have here with some very serious situations. and we're looking at Gaza, and we've got to get that taken care of. A lot of people are starving. A lot of people. There's a lot of bad things going on."

"We're going to get it done," he said of Ukraine negotiations. "5,000 young people are being killed every single week on average, and we're going to get it done."

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