Bartiromo: Did you get any sense from Putin that he would be willing or open to ending this war without taking significant property from Ukraine?
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 19, 2025
Trump: Well, he's going to take something. They fought and he has a lot of property. I mean, yeah, he's won certain property. We're… pic.twitter.com/9qJTJ9YyhQ
Bartiromo: Did you get any sense from Putin that he would be willing or open to ending this war without taking significant property from Ukraine?
Trump: Well, he’s going to take something. They fought and he has a lot of property. I mean, yeah, he’s won certain property. We’re the only nation that goes in and wins a war and leaves, you know? Like we did under President Bush in the Middle East
That trope about Trump always doing what the last person he talked to says to do is never more true than when he talks to his BFF Vlad:
Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree.
The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a “shouting match”, with Trump “cursing all the time”, people familiar with the matter said.
They added that the US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier.
Though Trump later endorsed a freeze of the current front lines, the acrimonious meeting appeared to reflect the capricious nature of the US president’s position on the war and his willingness to endorse Putin’s maximalist demands.
Trump needs to take credit for “solving” the Ukraine war and Vlad has convinced him the only way he can do that is to force Ukraine to surrender.