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Mr. President, thanks so much for joining Fox and Friends this morning. Good morning, that's quite a crew. That's quite a crew. Well, Mr. President, the whole world was watching yesterday as you got leaders from the European Union, NATO as well, from all over the world. How did you get them to Washington, to the Oval Office so fast? Well, I think really they have respect for our country again. A year ago they wouldn't have come, they wouldn't have even thought about it now. We've become the hottest country anywhere in the world. Everybody wants to be here. When I made the call they came and they said there's really never been anything like it. You know, you'd have one president or one prime minister but there's never been such a group and these really represent the European nations, these people, and they're very good people and they want to end the war, that horrible war with Ukraine and Russia. It's a horrible war. It was such a sense of unity and we all enjoyed watching it because America is on top and it was on your turf, on your terms. I know yesterday you talked about arranging a meeting to take place in two weeks between Putin and Zelensky. Is there an update there and do you plan to attend? No, I thought I'd do first let him, let them meet. You know, they haven't been exactly best friends. They haven't gotten along very well and I called President Putin yesterday and I do have a good relationship but it, you know, only matters if we get things done otherwise I don't care about the relationship. I do have a good relationship with them but I want to get things done. You know, I've gotten, I've solved seven wars. We ended seven wars. I thought this would be one of the easier ones and this is turned out to be the toughest one. India, Pakistan, I mean we, these were big ones and also all big ones and some going for 31, 32 years, one for 35 years. The Congo, think of that, the Congo and Rwanda for 35 years. I got that one done. I got them all done but this one is the one that is the most difficult and I thought it would be an easy one so I hope President Putin is going to be good and if he's not it's going to be a rough situation and I hope that Zelensky, President Zelensky will do what he has to do. He has to show some flexibility also. The thing is a mess. This was started by Joe Biden. This was a war that should have never happened. Millions of people are dead. The country's blown to pieces. Ukraine and it's a, it's a shame. You know, my wife wrote, Melania wrote that beautiful note to President Putin about children. The children are devastated. They take it away from their homes. The whole thing and this is a war that would have never ever ever happened if we had a president, a real president. So Mr. President, it's been barely a week since you announced that first meeting in Alaska. It's just been days since that meeting and then you had the meeting yesterday. In the course of having these negotiations, what has surprised you the most between Zelensky and Putin in terms of their strength or weakness of their position right now? Well I think the fact that maybe they're getting along a little bit better than I thought. Otherwise I wouldn't have set up the two meeting. I would have set up the three, a trilac. But I think they're doing a little bit better. There's been tremendous bad blood and again this was all worked out by an administration that didn't have a clue. And if you remember they said well if you made a minor incursion that would be okay. That was, that was the end. The whole thing when Biden made that statement. But minor incursion, what does that mean? So I think they're doing okay. I wouldn't say they are ever going to be best friends. But they're doing okay and we're just going to see. So we're setting up a meeting. I sort of started up with Putin and Zelensky and you know they're the ones that have to call the shots. We're seven thousand miles away in all fairness. You know we have, we've spent through the previous administration 350 billion dollars. Europe has spent a lot also a hundred billion but it should be reversed if we should have been in for anything. But it wouldn't have happened so that would have been much better because so many people died. This is the biggest, this is the biggest bad situation since World War II. There's been nothing even close. So Mr. President I know you've been doing deals your entire life when it comes to real estate deals. But this was something a little different. The thing that is surprising a lot of people is when it comes to the security guarantees. I know President Putin said no NATO and you said you know we're just going to take it off the table. But you did get President Putin to agree to NATO like protections. So tell us about that. What does that entail? Well the war really started over NATO and Crimea and they wanted Crimea back. That was given not a shot fired by President Obama in perhaps the worst real estate deal I've ever seen. There's been a couple of them. I would say the Gaza Strip was a pretty bad one too. Given by Israel so they'd have peace. So they gave away a big percentage of their oceanfront property in order to have peace. How did that work out? Not so good. And Crimea is the apple of of Ukraine. I mean it's so beautiful. And Obama gave it away. Nobody ever mentions that. If I ever did that the fake news would be, they would be writing about me day and night for years. He gave it away. He demanded that they let it go. And Russia came in and took it. Just took it like from a candy from a baby. And it was really Obama's that really I mean that was pure and simple. Obama's fault. What a terrible thing he did to that country. And so they lost their heart. They lost their heart and soul of the Ukraine 14 years ago. Whatever it might be. And it was so unnecessary to do that. And that's when it really began. When Obama gave it away. And then you had a lot of other events. But you have tremendous hostility. The people of Ukraine were mortified when that took place. That really began a lot of hatred when they gave it. And they didn't have to. Not a shot was fired. They just took over the most valuable piece. And the biggest piece in a sense of but and surrounded on four sides by ocean. Just a little passage to get you back onto the mainland. The most beautiful piece of property you've ever seen as a real estate developer. I look at it. I said why the heck did he do that to them. And so there's this great hostility. And maybe rightfully so. But one thing was NATO. They went in. They said we want you you know we want to get Crimea back. This was at the beginning. Now Putin in all fairness to him. He made a good deal. He got it from Obama. But they said we want it back. And that was not exactly well received because it was like 12 years before. That's where Russia has its submarine base. And you know that's been there long before Putin. You know they've been there for a long time. But long before Putin. And the other thing they said is we want to be a member of NATO. Well both of those things are impossible. Because again long before Putin it was a no no by Russia or the Soviet Union or anything you want to call it. Sort of a similar thing as it gets larger. But very similar. But it was it was always a no no. You could not. Russia said we don't want the so-called opponent or the enemy. Let's use that term. We don't want them on our border. And they were right. They were OK. And yet they went in and they asked with the United States they said put us into NATO. And everybody knew you can you just can't do that. They they would never have agreed to it. This is before Putin. This is long before Putin. This was a it was just a no no. It was something that was never going to happen. So they asked for it. And they shouldn't have asked for it because it was you know very insulting thing. Now they could have asked for many other things. But the other thing they wanted to do is is getting Crimea back. And you know that was given. They had built that they were expanding everything and spending a lot of money. All because Barack Hussein Obama gave it away in one of the dumbest real estate deals I've ever seen. But Mr. President. But you got the Article 5 protections though for Ukraine. So they're not going to be a part of NATO. But you still got them. So they're not going to be a part of NATO. But we've got the European nations and they'll front loaded and they'll have some of them. France and Germany a couple of them. UK. They want to have you know boots on the ground. Not in not in. I don't think it's going to be a problem to be honest with you. I think I think Putin is tired of it. I think they're all tired of it. But you never know. We're going to find out about President Putin in the next couple of weeks. That I can tell you. And we're going to see where it all goes. It's possible that he doesn't want to make a deal. I always said you know you interviewed me Lawrence and I think Charlie also. You know Lawrence I hate to tell you Charlie was about the first person in the world to endorse me. He endorsed me about a year before I ran. And that's why I always he called me this morning sir would you do an interview. And unlike Biden I don't need permission from my staff. Okay. And then only to be told that I'm not doing it. But Charlie endorsed me about a year before I think. And he puts it up on a site. You know it's still not checked. It's still on the site. I endorsed President Trump before he even ran. So I always like a guy like that. I must tell you you know. Lawrence is going to be a superstar but he was a little later to the game. Well it's a lot more crowded these days than it was back then. Mr. President what kind of assurances do you feel like you have that going forward and you know past this Trump administration it won't be American boots on the ground defending that border. Well you have my assurance you're not president and I'm I'm just trying to stop people from being killed Charlie. Look they're losing from five to seven thousand people a week in that ridiculous war that should have never happened. If we had a normal president not even a great president if we had a normal president that wouldn't have happened but we had a a guy that didn't have a clue and they're losing think of it five to seven thousand a week. So even these guys they'll say okay let's meet next week. I think you can't meet next week. Next week you're gonna have seven thousand more dead people you can't do that. You got to get this thing done. One of the things at the table was one of the gentlemen who's a great guy but he said I said I hope I didn't insult him. He said well let's meet in another month or two and let's see if we can start you know making some way. He said a month or two you're gonna have another forty thousand people dead in a month or two. You have to do it tonight. And I did actually I called President Putin and we're trying to work out a meeting with President Zelensky. We'll see what happens there and then if that works out if it works out then I'll go to the trilat and close it up. Oh that'd be good. Mr. President did y'all discuss any land swaps yesterday because we've talked a lot about the Donbass region and what was the feeling in the room? What did the other leaders say about this? Well they understand look everybody can play cute and this and that but you know Ukraine is going to get their life back. They're going to stop having people killed all over the place and they're going to get a lot of land. But this was a war and Russia is a powerful military nation you know whether people like it or not it's a powerful nation it's a much bigger nation. It's not a war that should have been started you don't do that you don't take you don't take on a nation that's 10 times your size and you know military experts look look if it wasn't for the greatest military equipment we make the greatest military equipment in the world and we gave them you know whatever they took probably a lot of money too but they they had tremendous you know they had the Patriot missile which is the best in the world all the equipment we make the best equipment in the world by far everyone else is like nothing so we gave them a lot of equipment now with that said the Ukrainian soldiers were brave as hell because there's fighting a force that's much much bigger and in theory much more powerful and you know it's not like they've stopped if you i assume you've all seen the map you know a big chunk of territory is taken and that territory has been taken now they're talking about dumbass but dumbass right now as you know is 79 owned and controlled by Russia so they understand what that means. Mr. President what did the other leaders tell you because it seemed to be this is unlike the first Trump term there was great unity that was there and we saw their public comments but when you got them in the Oval Office and we have this photo of you sitting at the resolute desk and all of these world leaders are sitting in front of you what did they say to you privately because it looked like they they're on the same page as you sir yeah they are they they're very good people they're very good leaders of their countries and they want to get back to leading their country you know they're consumed far more with this than we are because they're right there you know we have an ocean that's separating us right thing called an ocean a big a big beautiful ocean and they don't you know they're right there so they have to they have to you know it's a different kind of a thing for them when it comes to security they're willing to put people on the ground we're willing to help them with things especially probably if you talk about by air because there's nobody has the kind of stuff we have really they don't have but i don't think it's going to be a problem i think if a deal is made you know famous last words right but i think if a deal is made i think russia's had it they've all had it and for a very extended period of time i don't think there'll be a problem but so there'll be some form of security it can't be nato because that was a that's just not something that would ever ever happen he couldn't they couldn't do that so who would want that i mean if you were russia who would want to have your your enemy your opponent sitting on your line you don't do that so it was always thought that that ukraine was a sort of a buffer between russia and the rest of europe and it was was a big wide buffer everything worked out well until biden got involved you know when biden gave them a hundred billion dollars right up front i don't give him anything you know i don't know if you know it but since i've been there we we don't pay first of all i made a deal to take rare earth that's the equivalent of much more than the 350 billion that biden uh got away because i felt so foolish it was so stupid what he did and i was able to make a deal with ukraine and they were very

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