Them to NATO, and NATO is sending us big, beautiful checks. But that I don't care about, that I care about it was a big factor. When Biden spent three, 50 billion, he got nothing. But what I do care about is they lost last. Last week, 7011 people were lost, almost all soldiers, 36 people in a town which got hit by a missile, but 7000 over 7000 soldiers. It's crazy. Can
you describe a little bit, Mr. President? Because I know you've had a lot of phone calls with President Putin. What's the difference in a face to face, in person media?
Look, he's a smart guy been doing it for a long time, but so have I been doing it for a long time? And here we are with president that was much more difficult than what I'm doing today, believe me, so we get along. It's a good respect level on both sides. And I think, you know, something's going to come of it. I noticed he's bringing a lot of business people from Russia, and that's good. I like that because they want to do business, but they're not doing business until we get the worst out. We have the hottest country on Earth. We have the hottest economy on Earth. We have the hottest company country. We just set a new stock market record again, we have hundreds of billions of dollars flowing in from tariffs. We're the hottest. We were a dead country like dead like door nails, a dead country. One year ago, we were dead as a doornail, and now we have the hottest country, and he wants a piece of that, because his country is not hot economically. In fact, it's the opposite. And China's not doing well economically. But we're all look, I want everybody to do well. The war is going to stop, and the killing has got to
stop. Thank you for coming back to take questions. We saw that Russia continued its violence into Ukraine last night, launching even more drones. What did you make of that?
I think they're trying to negotiate. He's trying to set a stage. I mean, in his mind, that helps him make a better deal, it actually hurts him, but in his mind, that helps him make a better deal, if they can continue the killing, maybe it's a part of the world. Maybe it's just his fabric, his genes, his genetics, but he thinks that makes him, gives him strength in negotiating. I think it hurts him, but I'll be talking to him about it later. On the table
for discussions today, Mr. President, are the territorial swaps on the table? Will you be discussing
that? They'll be discussed, but I've got to let Ukraine make that decision, and I think they'll make a proper decision. But I'm not here to negotiate for Ukraine. I'm here to get them at a table, and I think you have two sides. Look, Vladimir Putin wanted to take all of Ukraine. If I wasn't president, he would, right now, be taking all of Ukraine, but he's not going to do
it one, just one thing. What about the possibility? That is the possibility of the United States providing security guarantees to Ukraine,
maybe, along with Europe and other countries, not in the form of NATO, because that's not going to, you know, there are certain things that aren't going to happen. But yeah, along with Europe, there's a possibility of
mixing. The number of business people that President Putin is bringing along. Is that something that you want to discuss with President Putin at this meeting,
if we, if we make progress, I would discuss it, because that's one of the things that they would like. They'd like to get a piece of what I built in terms of the economy. Just so you know, we were a dead country with our economy, he wouldn't be interested. He wouldn't have been interested a year ago with the Biden economy, but he is interested in the Trump economy, because we're doing wait you see where those factories start opening up. We have hundreds of factories all over the country, and that includes auto factories, AI factories, and every other they're all coming in because they want to beat the tariffs, because if they open here, they don't have to pay tariffs. If they don't open here, they have to pay, in some cases, 200% 300% I haven't even set some of the tariffs yet. I'll be setting tariffs next week and the week after, on steel and on, I would say chips season, semiconductors will be setting sometime next week, week after, you're looking at what rate going to have a rate that is going to be lower at the beginning, then That gives them a chance to come in and build, and very high after a certain period of time. And if they don't build here, they have to pay a very high tariff, which doesn't work. So they'll come and build.
Mr. President, you had said earlier,
he's a very nice he's one of the few nice ones. Yes, you had
said earlier this week that Putin would face severe consequences if you get the sense from him, but he's not interested. What do you mean by that?
Economically severe? Yes, it will be very severe. I'm not doing this for my health. Okay? I don't need it. I'd like to focus on our country, but I'm doing this to save a lot of lives. Yeah, very severe. Thank you very much, everybody.
