Trump also commented on US funding for the military alliance NATO.
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President of the United States Donald Trump says he wants to meet the Russian president Vladimir Putin direct.
Trump commented on the matter to reporters on Thursday at the White House.
– Based on what I heard, Putin would like to meet me and we will leave as soon as we can. Which I would meet immediately, Trump said.
In addition, according to Trump, the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi has told him he is ready to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
Earlier this week, Trump urged Putin to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine. According to him, Putin will destroy Russia if it does not make an agreement.
Trump: Others don’t protect us
Trump also said that he is not sure whether the United States should fund NATO in the first place. According to him, the United States protects the members of the military alliance, but the other member countries “don’t protect us”.
– I’m not sure if we should spend so much money, but of course we should help them.
Trump, who became president, has long demanded other NATO countries to increase their defense spending. On Thursday, he repeated his demand that the member states raise the share of defense spending to five percent of GDP.
“All will be revealed”
On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order ordering, among other things, the president John F. Kennedy official documents related to the assassination made public.
The order also applies to, for example, this brother, the Minister of Justice by Robert F. Kennedy and human rights activist Martin Luther King materials of assassinations.
– Everything will be revealed, Trump told reporters.
President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The US National Archives has released tens of thousands of documents related to the assassination in recent years, but has refused to release thousands of documents citing national security.
Sources: AFP, Reuters