Duration in 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 Hero speaking for the 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 history with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy.
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:
A very easy negotiation
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 “War Hothhe Hott 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 have done it, I will do it in 24 hours,” Trump said a town hall in CNN.
July 2024: When he was asked to respond to Trump’s claim, the United Nations Ambassador of Russia, Vassily Nebenzia, told reporters that “the Ukrainian crisis cannot be resolved in one day.”
Subsequently, Trump’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said that “a priority in his second B is quickly negotiating 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 fix it very fast. I don’t want you to go there. I don’t want you to go there.”
After Trump wins in November
December 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 get to Putin and Zenskyy to end the war.
January 8, 2025: In an interview with Fox News Channel, the retired Lieutenant Gene. Keith Kellogg-took served as Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, proposed by a deadline of 100 days to end the war. Friday marked 100 days from that interview. Trump’s presidency day is April 30.
Trump becomes president and negotiations begins
January 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 said in an exchange with journalists in the Oval office. “We want to end that war. That war would not have begun if I were president.” February 12: Trump and Putin speak for more than an hour and Trump then speaks with Zenskyy. Trump later says: “I think we are on the way to get peace.” February 19: Trump publishes in its social site of truth that Zenskyy is serving as a “dictator without elections.”
He adds that “we succeed negotiating the end of the war with Russia, something that only admits that Trump only” and the Trump administration can do. “
February 28: Trump and Zenskyy have a controversial meeting of the Oval office. Trump scolds Zenskyy for being “disrespectful”, then abruptly cancels the signing of a mineral agreement that, according to Trump, has approached Ukraine to end the war.
Declaging himself “in the middle” and not on the side of Ukraine or Russia in the conflict, Trump uses to make fun of Zensky’s “hatred” for Putin as an obstacle to peace.
“You see the hatred you have for Putin,” Trump said. “It is very difficult for me to make a deal with that son of hate.” Trump’s main advisors asked the Ukrainian leader to leave the White House shortly after Trump shouted at him. Trump later reporters that he wanted a “high immediate fire” between Russia and Ukraine, but expressed doubts that Zenskyy was ready to make peace.
March 3: Trump temporarily stops military aid to Ukraine to press Zenskyy to look for peace.
Trump states that his 24 -hour promise was sarcastic
March 14: Trump says he was “being a bit sarcastic” when he repeatedly claimed as a candidate that Russia-Ukraine war would be resolved in 24 hours.
“Well, I was being a bit sarcastic when I said that,” Trump says in a clip released from an interview for the “Full Meass” television show.
“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 Zenskyy and Putin on successive days.
In a March 18 call, Putin told Trump that he would not go to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, but refused to support a high 30 -day fire that Trump had proposed.
Subsequently, Trump on social networks announced that movement, which said that “with the understanding that we will work quickly to have a high fire and, ultimately, the end of this same war between Russia and Ukraine.”
In his own call a day later, Trump suggested that Zenskyy Shoulder give the US property of the Ukrainian power plants to guarantee their long -term safety.
Trump told Zenskyy that the United States could be “very useful to manage those plants for their experience in electricity and public services,” according to a White House statement from the Framework Secretary of State Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
April 14: Trump says “everyone” is to blame: Zenskyy, Putin and Biden.
“That is a war that should never begin and Biden could stop her and Zenskyy could have stopped it and Putin should never start,” Trump told journalists in the Oval office.
Talk about
April 18: Rubio says that the United States can “move on” to try to ensure a peace agreement of Russia-Uuraine 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 its participation.
“Now we are reaching a point where we need to decide the target, this is what is possible or not,” Rubio told journalists. “Because it is not, so 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 to 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 because to see him finish.” (AP) py py
Posted on April 19, 2025