'That stood out to me': CNN anchors in awe at Trump's 'amorphous' remarks on Putin meeting
President Donald Trump will fly to Alaska on Friday, where he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in person to "feel him out" over whether a ceasefire with Ukraine is possible. But CNN anchors called Trump's plan "amorphous."
Trump took questions in the Oval Office about his meeting and made it clear he has no plan. At one point, a reporter asked whether there could be any success that comes from the meeting on Friday if a ceasefire doesn't happen.
"I don't know where that comes from — not a good question," Trump said before rambling on about "setting the table for the next meeting."
"The president said that he thinks that Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will make peace. He says we'll see if they get along," reported Sanchez. "He did acknowledge that the conflict in Ukraine is more complicated than he had thought. Remember during his campaign, he had said that it was a conflict that he would broker peace for within days. That clearly has not happened."
Trump's officials have been meeting with Putin since the start of the administration. Trump infamously said it would take him just 24 hours to solve the conflict and that it would be "easy." CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale counted 53 times that Trump promised to end the war within his first day."
CNN correspondent Danny Freeman, who stood in as a co-host with Boris Sanchez, remarked that Trump has already changed the language about the aims of the meeting. It was just 24 hours ago that Trump was warning Putin of "consequences" if there was no agreement.
"It's kind of taken an amorphous approach, if you will," said Freeman. "Or again, a back-and-forth approach, at least as we approach. The other thing that I thought was interesting was that he said when he described this second potential meeting, if things go well tomorrow with Vladimir Putin, that perhaps I might bring some of the European leaders along to a potential trilateral meeting. So, that also stood out to me as well."
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