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President Donald Trump lost his patience with a reporter Monday as he met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office Monday to announce his plan to send Patriot missiles to help Ukraine defend itself from continued Russian onslaught.

The reporter asked Trump, "If Putin escalates further, how far are you willing to go in response?"

"Don't ask me a question like that," he snapped back....

At the Hague on Tuesday, president Donald Trump used the same schoolyard fight allegory to talk about Israel and Iran as he used when talking recently about Russia and Ukraine.

"They're not going to be fighting each other — they've had it. They've had a big fight," Trump said of the bombs exchanged by the two Mideast nations.

"Like two kids in a schoolyard, you know? They fight like hell, you can't stop them. Let them fight for about two, three minutes, then it's easier to stop them."...

Donald Trump's interpretation of Vladimir Putin's non-committal statement on a ceasefire with Ukraine was like "putting lipstick on a pig," according to CNN's Brianna Keilar.

Putin said a a news conference, “We agree with the proposals to stop the hostilities." And, while Russia would support a pause in the fighting, "There are issues that need to be discussed,” Putin said, adding that he may need to “have a phone call with Trump.”

Trump was asked about the statement during an Oval Office meeting Thursday with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Trump called it "very promising" but "incomplete." He said he 'would love to meet and talk to Putin, but we have to get it over with fast,'" co-host Boris Sanchez recounted....

The Dutch king apologized for the sufferings of hundreds of thousands of people under slavery and asked for forgiveness on the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands. His apology comes from the bottom of his heart and soul, King Willem-Alexander said at an event in Amsterdam to mark the national event. "Of all forms of bondage, slavery is the most degrading and inhumane." His apology echoes that made by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on behalf of the Netherlands and the king at the end of last year. The Netherlands was one of the largest colonial powers in the world ......