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President Donald Trump kicked disconnected his 4th week successful bureau by attending the Super Bowl successful what is expected to beryllium different action-packed enactment week that could see a gathering with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Trump volition onshore backmost successful Washington, D.C., precocious Sunday evening aft attending the Super Bowl and spending the play astatine Mar-A-Lago. The 47th president hinted that helium could clasp his first gathering with Zelenskyy since his Jan. 20 inauguration aboriginal this week to sermon the ongoing warfare betwixt Ukraine and Russia.
"[Zelenskyy] whitethorn conscionable adjacent week, yeah. Whenever helium would like. I’m here," Trump told reporters portion hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba connected Friday.
Trump has already met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose federation is successful the midst of a ceasefire statement with Hamas pursuing much than a twelvemonth of war, and has vowed to extremity the warfare betwixt Russia and Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine successful February 2022, starring to hundreds of thousands of deaths for some nations arsenic warfare continues.
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"I volition astir apt beryllium gathering with President Zelenskyy adjacent week. And I've… I volition astir apt beryllium talking to President Putin. I'd similar to spot that warfare extremity for 1 superior reason: They're sidesplitting truthful galore people," Trump said during the property league connected Friday.
Trump past met with Zelenskyy when helium was president-elect successful December during a travel to Paris up of the Notre Dame Cathedral reopening aft a occurrence ripped done the Catholic religion successful 2019.
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"You person 8 oregon 900,000 Russian soldiers are dead, and precise severely wounded. And the aforesaid happening with Ukraine, you person astir apt 700,000 with Ukraine. The numbers they gave are a small spot little than that. But I judge those numbers aren’t correct. I'd similar to spot it conscionable connected a quality basis. It's unspeakable what's going on," Trump added of the ongoing warfare during his comments Friday.
Trump confirmed to the New York Post connected Friday that helium has spoken to Vladimir Putin arsenic the warfare continues, but did not divulge galore details beyond that Putin "wants to spot radical halt dying."
Trump suggested earlier past week that Ukraine should onslaught a woody with the U.S. to supply important minerals – specified arsenic titanium, lithium, graphite and uranium – successful speech for subject aid.
"We’re putting successful hundreds of billions of dollars. They person large uncommon earths. And I privation information of the uncommon earth, and they’re consenting to bash [that]," Trump told reporters astatine the White House past Monday.
Zelenskyy told the media a time aboriginal that helium is unfastened to an "investment" from "partners who assistance america support our onshore and propulsion the force backmost with their weapons, their presence, and sanctions packages."
"And this is perfectly fair," helium added.
Trump is besides expected to conscionable with the CEO of Nippon Steel this week, which is Japan’s largest alloy company. The Biden medication had blocked a nearly $15 cardinal woody for the Japanese institution to bargain the American steelmaker, U.S. Steel, with Trump previewing past week that Nippon is present looking to put successful U.S. Steel arsenic opposed to purchasing it.
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Nippon Steel "is going to beryllium doing thing precise breathtaking astir U.S. Steel," Trump said connected Friday. "They’ll beryllium looking astatine an concern alternatively than a purchase."
"Very large institution and they'll enactment retired the details," Trump said of Nippon, mistakenly referring to it arsenic "Nissan," a Japanese car institution connected archetypal reference. "I'll help. I'll beryllium determination to mediate and arbitrate."
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The president is in the midst of leveraging tariffs connected Canada, Mexico and China to bolster borderline security, extremity amerciable migration and stem the travel of fentanyl into the U.S. Trump previewed connected Friday that this week volition see him announcing "reciprocal trade" tariffs connected different nations, arsenic opposed to a flat 10% oregon 20% tariff connected different nations, arsenic helium has antecedently threatened.
"I’ll beryllium announcing that adjacent week, reciprocal trade, truthful that we’re treated evenly with different countries," helium told reporters connected Friday, saying the announcement should travel by Monday oregon Tuesday. "We don’t privation immoderate more, immoderate less."
"I deliberation that’s the lone just mode to bash it that mode nobody’s hurt," the president continued. "They complaint us, we complaint them. It’s the aforesaid thing, and I look to beryllium going successful that enactment arsenic opposed to a level interest tariff."
In summation to anticipated overseas relations and planetary commercialized announcements and meetings, Trump's medication is expected to proceed its investigations of the national government's assorted agencies arsenic portion of the Department of Government Efficiency's quest to suss retired interior corruption and authorities overspending.
Trump’s docket for the week was not yet released arsenic of Sunday afternoon, beyond attending the Super Bowl earlier flying backmost to the White House precocious Sunday evening.
Fox News Digital's Morgan Phillips contributed to this article.
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