Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from Palm Beach, Florida
Image source, Bernd Debusmann Jr/BBC News
Good morning from Florida – where for the last several days I’ve been travelling with President Trump as he spends time at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach.
Since we flew down with him on Friday, we’ve only had brief glimpses of the president, including his splashy appearance in front of an adoring crowd of thousands at the Daytona 500 Nascar race.
Trump did, however, come and speak to us after flying back to Palm Beach from Daytona.
His remarks were light on details, but did offer a glimpse at his thinking on the conflict in Ukraine and, he hopes, a potential meeting with Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia he says will happen “very soon”.
At one point, Trump was asked about his recent conversation with Putin and what he believes the Russian president’s motivations are going forward
“I think he wants to stop fighting. I see that,” he said. “That was my question to him.”
“Because if he’s going to go on, that would have been a big problem for us,” Trump added. “And that would have caused me a big problem, because you can’t just let that happen.”
It remains unclear what he thinks Ukraine will look like once the conflict ends.
In response to a BBC question last week, he said only that he believes Ukraine can get “some” of its territory back, although he referred to defence secretary Pete Hegseth’s assessment that a return to its pre-2014 borders are unrealistic.
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