During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly said that he could end the War between Russia and Ukraine “In 24 hours” when assuming the position. He has changed his tone since he became president again.
As several American emissaries have had conversations in search of an end of the war, both Trump and his senior officials have become more reserved on the perspectives of a peace agreement. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, suggested on Friday that the United States would soon retire from negotiations without more progress, adding a comment that sounded like a repudiation of the president’s old comments.
“No one says that this can be done in 12 hours,” he told reporters.
Promises made by presidential candidates are often talked by government realities. But Trump’s change is remarkable given his previous mandate as president and his long stories with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The White House on Friday did not immediately respond to a message in search of comments on the comments of Trump’s evolution deadline.
Here is a look at Trump’s evolution in the way he talks about the Russian-Ukraine War:
March 2023: “There is a very easy negotiation to take place. But I don’t want to tell him what it is because I can’t use that negotiation; it will never work,” Trump told Fox News Channel presenter Sean Hannity, claiming that he could “solve” the war “in 24 hours” if he returned in the White House.
“But it is a very easy negotiation.
May 2023: “They are dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I will do it, I will do it in 24 hours,” Trump said during City hall In CNN.
July 2024: When asked to respond to Trump’s one day claim, the United Nations Nesily Nebenzia Ambassador to Russia of Russia Nebenzia He said to journalists that “the Ukrainian crisis cannot be resolved in one day.” Subsequently, Trump’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said that “a priority in his second mandate will quickly negotiate the end of the Russian-Ukraine War.”
August 2024: “Before arriving at the Oval office, shortly after winning the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump told a National Guard Conference. “I’ll solve it very fast. I don’t want you to go there. I don’t want you to go there.”
DEC. 16, 2024: “I’m going to try,” Trump said during a press conference at his Mar-A-Lago club, he asked if he thought he could still get to Putin and Zelenskyy to finish the war.
JAN. 8, 2025: In an interview with Fox News Channel, the retired Lieutenant Keith Kellogg, which now serves as a special envoy from Trump to Ukraine and Russia, proposed a deadline of 100 days to end the war. Friday marked 100 days from that interview. Trump’s presidency day is April 30.
JAN. 31: Trump says that his new administration has already had “very serious” discussions with Russia and says that he and Putin could soon take “significant” measures to end the grinding conflict.
“We will be talking, and I think it will do something that is significant,” Trump He said in an exchange with reporters In the oval office. “We want to end that war. That war would not have begun if I were president.”
FEB. 12: Trump and Putin speak for more than an hour and Trump then speaks with Zelenskyy. Triumph He says later“I think we are on the way to get peace.”
FEB. 19: Trump Publications on your real social site that Zelenskyy is serving as a “dictator without choices.” He adds that “we are successfully negotiating the end of the war with Russia, something that only admits” Trump “and the Trump administration can do.”
FEB. 28: Trump and Zelenskyy have a contentious Oval office meeting. Trump rebukes Zelenskyy for being “disrespectful,” then abruptly cancels signing of a mineral agreement That Trump said he would have approached Ukraine to end the war.
Declaring “in the middle” and not on the side of Ukraine or Russia in the conflict, Trump mocked Zelenskyy’s “hatred” by Putin as an obstacle to peace.
“You see the hatred you have for Putin,” Trump said. “That is very difficult for me to make a deal with that kind of hatred.”
Trump’s main advisors asked the Ukrainian leader to leave the White House shortly after Trump shouted at him. Later, Trump told journalists that he wanted a “high immediate fire” between Russia and Ukraine, but expressed doubts that Zelenskyy was ready to make peace.
March 3: Trump pause temporarily Military aid to Ukraine to press Zelenskyy to look for peace.
March 14: Trump says he was “being a bit sarcastic” when he repeatedly affirmed as a candidate that Russia-Ukraine war resolved in 24 hours.
“Well, I was being a bit sarcastic when I said that,” Trump says in a published clip of an interview for the television program “Complete Measure.” “What I really mean is that I would like to solve it and, I think, I think I will succeed.”
March 18-19: Trump talks to Zelenskyy and Putin on successive days.
In a March 18 call, Putin told Trump that he would agree not to point to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, but refused to support a complete 30 -day cove Trump had proposed. Subsequently, Trump on social networks announced that movement, which he came from “understanding that we will work quickly to have a high fire and, ultimately, the end of this horrible war between Russia and Ukraine.”
In his own call a day later, Trump suggested that Zelenskyy should consider giving the US property of Ukraine electrical plants to guarantee their long -term safety. Trump told Zelenskyy that the United States could be “very useful to administer those plants with his experience in electricity and public services,” according to a statement from the White House of Secretary of Secretary Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
April 14: Trump says “everyone” is to blame: Zelenskyy, Putin and Biden.
“That is a war that should never have been allowed to start and Biden could have stopped it and Zelenskyy could have stopped it and Putin should never have begun,” Trump told journalists in the Oval office.
April 18: Rubio says that The United States can “move on” to try to ensure a Russia-Ukraine Paz defection If there is no progress in the next few days.
He spoke in Paris after historical conversations between US, Ukrainian and European officials produced contours for the steps towards peace and seemed to make some long -awaited progress. A new meeting is expected next week in London, and Rubio suggested that it could be decisive to determine if the Trump administration continues Your participation.
“Now we are reaching a point where we must decide whether this is possible or not,” Rubio told journalists. “Because if not, then I think we are going to move on. It is not our war. We have other priorities to focus.”
He said that the US administration wants to decide “in a matter of days.”
Later that day, Trump told the White House journalists that he agreed with Rubio to make a peace agreement of Ukraine “quickly.”
“I don’t have a specific number of days but quickly. We want to do it,” he said.
To say “Marco is right” that the dynamics of the negotiations must change, Trump did not stop to say that he is ready to get away from the peace negotiations.
“Well, I don’t want to say that,” Trump said. “But we want to see him finish.”
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Kinnard reported from Chapin, South Carolina, and can be contacted in http://x.com/megkinnardap
