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a better story than that. So, if I had to predict, I don't think it'll happen soon necessarily, but yeah, he'll get it done. I guess Trump was caught on a hot mic talking to Macron and he said, quote, talking about Putin, he says, I think he wants to make a deal for me. You understand that? As crazy as it sounds. Then Macron was just diplomatic and he said, "Uh, yeah, any deal would be great news…
← Previous segment →but you did it for me. Now, when I'm negotiating these sanctions and stuff like that, well, maybe I owe you one." So, I think it's more about Putin knowing that he wants to have the president of the United States owe him one. So, in that sense, he might be doing it for Trump.
I guess Trump and Zelensky had some joking around in the Oval Office, not the Oval Office, but afterwards when they sit in those two chairs awkwardly. And Zelensky, as you know, cancelled Ukrainian elections because he was in the middle of a war. And Trump joked that he might follow Zelensky's lead and cancel the 2028 election. Now, I can't believe that Trump keeps doing this because he's just poking the Democrats and it's wild to watch. I wouldn't recommend it and I definitely wouldn't recommend any of you copy this technique, but Trump might be the only person in the world who could joke about this and just get away with it. If it makes them talk about this instead of other things, well, it's probably to his advantage. So, he just loves poking that bear.
Do you remember when all the smart people were saying that the other countries don't respect Trump in the first term especially? You remember that? And even if you liked Trump,
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you might have said to yourself, well, I have to admit those other countries don't seem to be respecting him. They should, but I don't think they are. Well, what do you think now? Now that you got all of Europe to come over on short notice, you've got Putin taking his phone calls and coming to Alaska and he's working on arguably the most important topic and he'll probably get it done eventually, m…
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