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\/>\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvar player = data.detail.carousel.el_;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvar container = player.closest(‘.metro-video-player’);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvar placeholder = container.querySelector(‘.metro-video-player__up-next-placeholder’);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tif (placeholder) {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.removeChild(placeholder);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.classList.add(‘metro-video-player–related-videos-loaded’);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump told the story again about an hour later, during a luncheon with the White House Faith Office.<\/p>\n<p>‘I’d get home, I’d say, “First lady, I had the most wonderful talk with Vladimir. I think we’re finished.” <\/p>\n<p>‘And then I’ll turn on the television, or she’ll say to me one time, “Wow, that’s strange because they just bombed a nursing home,”‘ he said.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees at <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/white-house\/page\/10\/\">the White House<\/a> State Dining Room laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Melania kept a low profile as first lady, appearing alongside her husband often only on rare occasions. But the president reportedly has long trusted her judgement.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he was ‘disappointed’ in Putin because he thought a deal would come through two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>‘It\u2019s just the way it is,’ said the US president. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23661878 lazyload\" alt=\"Mandatory Credit: Photo by Pool\/ABACA\/Shutterstock (15398655q) US President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on July 14, 2025. US President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte - Washington, United States - 14 Jul 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_259022842-64be.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>US President Donald Trump (middle) raised the threat to Russia in the Oval Office (Picture: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>‘I hope we don\u2019t have to do it.’<\/p>\n<p>Trump reiterated his complaints about Putin after <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/07\/08\/trump-complains-putins-bulls-ukraine-peace-talks-23613703\/\">blasting his ‘bulls***’ during peace talks<\/a> last week. The US president said his conversations with his Russian counterpart are ‘always very pleasant’.<\/p>\n<p>‘I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done, and I always hang up say, “Well, that was a nice phone call,”‘ Trump said. <\/p>\n<p>‘And then missiles launched into Kyiv or some other city, and I said, “strange.”<\/p>\n<p>‘And after that happens three or four times, you say, “The talk doesn’t mean anything.”‘<\/p>\n<p>Trump added of Putin: ‘He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden \u2013 he didn\u2019t fool me.’<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"399\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23621516 lazyload\" alt=\"Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mikhail Metzel\/Kremlin Pool\/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire\/Shutterstock (15391660c) Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Deputy Minister of Transport Andrey Nikitin, during a face-to-face meeting at the Kremlin, July 7, 2025 in Moscow, Russia. Nikitin was appointed as the acting transport minister replacing Roman Starovoit who was dismissed earlier. Russian President Putin Meets With Andrey Nikitin, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia - 07 Jul 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_258340286-1295.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Russian President Vladimir Putin has been given a 50-day deadline to agree to a peace deal (Picture: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US president also suggested that he does not want to be blamed if Putin does not agree to peace by the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>‘I do want to make one statement again: I said it before, this is not Trump\u2019s war,’ he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin did not immediately respond to Trump\u2019s message.<\/p>\n<p>But Russian senior lawmaker Konstantin Kosachev did not seem to take Trump\u2019s words seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Oh, how much can change both on the battlefield and with the mood of those leading the US and NATO in 50 days,\u2019 he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has warned Russia about sanctions repeatedly but not followed through.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-23661879 lazyload\" alt=\"NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte shakes hands with US President Donald Trump\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SEI_259022457-ef14.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (left) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump (right) during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House (Picture: Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The US president also said he will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine to help in its defense against Russia. The weapons will be ‘quickly distributed to the battlefield’, Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>As Trump issued the threat, seven regions in northern and eastern Ukraine were under air alerts after drones killed four people and injured 21 others in the Kharkiv and Sumy areas.<\/p>\n<p>He announced the threat to Russia during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has threatened to hit European imports with 30% sanctions. Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Rasmussen, called it ‘absolutely unacceptable and unjustified’ and said that Europe does ‘not want a trade war’ with America.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union’s trade commissioner said they are considering retaliatory tariffs if Trump moves forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T1M2S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/07\/15\/06\/100315807-0-image-a-31_1752557278512.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-07-15T06:25:53+0100″,”description”:”‘I trust almost nobody.’”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/07\/15\/3034975665855510492\/480x270_MP4_3034975665855510492.mp4″,”height”:270,”width”:480} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page window.addEventListener(‘metroVideo:relatedVideosCarouselLoaded’, function(data) { if (typeof(data.detail) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel.el_) === ‘undefined’) { return; } var player = data.detail.carousel.el_; var container = player.closest(‘.metro-video-player’); var placeholder = container.querySelector(‘.metro-video-player__up-next-placeholder’); if (placeholder) { container.removeChild(placeholder); container.classList.add(‘metro-video-player–related-videos-loaded’); } }); US President Donald Trump revealed that he trusts ‘almost no one’ in his dealings with … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/trump-trusts-no-one-and-is-disappointed-but-not-done-with-putin-over-ukraine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “Trump \u2018trusts no one\u2019 and is \u2018disappointed but not done\u2019 with Putin over Ukraine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cost-of-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.airnetaccess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}