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Lip reader says Trump & Putin vow to 'help' each other 1st words as Trump meets Putin at Anchorage airport, footage from Daily Mail

BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin after meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump: “We hope that the agreement we have reached today will pave the path to peace in the Ukraine.”

Possibility of US providing security guarantees? "Maybe. Along with Europe and other countries. Not in the form of NATO, because you know there are certain things that aren't going to happen. But yeah, along with Europe there's possibility." Do you want to discuss business with Putin at this meeting? "Yeah, 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've built in terms of the economy...He wouldn't have been interested a year ago with the Biden economy. But he is interested in the Trump economy. Wait until you see when those factories start opening up. We have hundreds of factories all over the country, and that includes auto factories, AI factories and every other thing. 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 percent, 300 percent. 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. Chips and semiconductors we'll be setting some time next week, week after." What rate? "Well, I'm 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." (POTUS compliments Reuters' Steve Holland -- "such a gentleman" — for motioning that a colleague had a question.) What do you mean by severe consequences? "Economically severe. Yes, it will be very severe. I'm not doing this for my health, OK? I don't need it. I'd like to focus on our country. But I'm doing this to save a lot of lives."

Friday, August 15, 2025 10:22 AM DST Air Force One was wheels down in Alaska at 10:20 a.m. local time. An update, per Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt- The previously planned one-on-one meeting between President Trump and President Putin is now a three-on-three meeting. Trump will be joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. For the expanded bilateral meeting/lunch, Rubio, Witkoff, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and chief of staff Susie Wiles will also join. President Trump came back to speak to reporters roughly 20 minutes after we took off. He took questions for about six minutes. The audio of the president's remarks should have been played back for those on the ground, per the White House. But for those who still need them, quotes and top lines below. Trump noted the Russian delegation includes business people, and he said he would be open to discussing business with Russia "if we make progress." He suggested the latest Russian strikes on Ukraine are Putin "trying to negotiate," thinking it helps him make a better deal "if they can continue the killing." And he specified that any consequences for Russia would be "economically severe." POTUS also said he intends to announce tariff rates on chips and semiconductors next week or the week after. What would make today's meeting a success: "I can't tell you that. I don't know. There's nothing set in stone. I want certain things. I want to see a ceasefire. This has not to do with Europe. Europe's not telling me what to do, but they're going to be involved in the process obviously, as well as Zelensky. "But I want to see a ceasefire rapidly. I don't know if it's going to be today, but I'm not going to be happy if it's not today. Everyone said it can't be today, but I'm just saying, I want the killing to stop. I'm in this to stop the killing. You know, we're not putting up any money. We're making money. They're buying our weapons, sending them to NATO, and NATO's sending us big, beautiful checks. But I don't care about that...What I do care about is they lost last week 7,011 people. Almost all soldiers." Difference between phone call and face-to-face meeting: "No difference. Look, he's a smart guy, been doing it for a long time, and so have I. Been doing it for a long time. And here we are. We're president. That was much more difficult than what I'm doing today. Believe me. So, we get along. There's a good respect level on both sides. I think, you know, something's going to come of it. I notice 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 war settled." "One year ago we were dead as a door nail. 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's got to stop and the killing's got to stop. Response to latest Russian drone strikes "I think they're trying to negotiate. He's trying to set a stage. I think 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." Are territorial swaps on the table? "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 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. And he's not going to do it."

President Donald J. Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One en route to Alaska. Air Force One was wheels up for Anchorage at 8:07 a.m. Traveling with the President aboard Air Force One, per the White House:   Secretary Marco Rubio Secretary Scott Bessent Secretary Howard Lutnick Director John Ratcliffe Susie Wiles James Blair Beau Harrison Nick Luna Dan Scavino Steven Cheung Robert Gabriel Karoline Leavitt Will Scharf Ross Worthington Ambassador Steve Witkoff Ambassador Monica Crowley

Here are some additional quotes from President Trump's spray in the Oval Office.   Trump would not comment on reports that he’s considering offering Putin a deal involving Alaskan or Ukrainian minerals in exchange for ending the war in Ukraine: “As far as rare earth, that's very unimportant relative. I'm trying to save lives.” Trump said the “more important meeting” will be the one that includes President Zelensky: “We have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow. I think it's going to be a good meeting, but the more important meeting will be the second meeting that we're having. We're going to have a meeting with President Putin, President Zelensky, myself, and maybe we'll bring some of the European leaders along. Maybe not.” On where the negotiations stand: “We're going to see what happens. And I think President Putin will make peace. I think President Zelensky will make peace. We'll see if they can get along, and if they can, it'll be great."   "You know, I've solved six wars in the last six months, little more than six months now, and I'm very proud of it. I thought the easiest one would be this one. It's actually the most difficult.” On hopes for the meeting: “We're going to find out where everybody stands. And I'll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes or five minutes left, we tend to find out whether or not we're going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting. And if it's a bad meeting, it'll end very quickly, and if it's a good meeting, we're going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future.” Asked if his potential incentives for peace could end up rewarding Putin for his invasion of Ukraine: “I don’t think it’s a reward. I think that what we have is a situation that should never have started… It didn't start under me, and for four years, it wasn't even discussed. And I could see it was going to happen after I left... Everything that [Biden] did was wrong, everything that was done was wrong. Everybody's to blame. Putin's to blame. They're all to blame.” On the National Guard: “ I heard [Maryland Gov. Wes Moore] today talking about how the National Guard or the military is not trained in police, but they're trained in common sense, and they're trained in not allowing people to burn down buildings and bomb buildings and shoot people--all the things." Adds that if he didn’t call the National Guard to quell protests in Los Angeles earlier this summer, “it wouldn't be existent today. We would have had to cancel the Olympics if I let that go on.”   On crime stats in DC: “They are under investigation right now. They are giving us phony crime stats, just like they gave other stats in the financial world with their phony crime stats. Washington, DC is at its worst point, and it will soon be at its best point. You're going to have a very safe, you're going to have a crime free city. I mean, I say that--virtually a crime free city.”

📰 Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2025 2:08 PM To: [...] Subject: In-town pool report #5: Trump comments on US-Russia summit   After signing a proclamation honoring the anniversary of the SSA, Trump took questions on his summit with Putin in Alaska, DC crime, and more.   Q: Are you prepared to offer Vladimir Putin access to rare minerals to incentivize him to end the war? Trump: “We're gonna see what happens in that meeting. It's gonna be very important for Russia and very important for us.”   On Putin: “I think President Putin will make peace."   On DC: “Sadly, what I guess the mayor did, but whoever it was, they asked the numbers to be fudged so they would show less crime. The fact is, it's worse than it has ever been."   On SSA: “We cleared 12.4 million names listed in the social security database, over 120 years of age. Think of that. Is that right? That is a hell of a statement. I have a feeling that really did not happen.”   On Elizabeth Warren: “She was all excited and jumping up and down. She has got to take a drug test. There’s no way somebody can act that way and be normal” ###

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