“If everything works out well today we’ll have a trilat and I think there will be a reasonable chance of ending the war when we do that,” Trump told reporters. “We’re going to work with everybody, and we’re going to make sure that if there’s peace the peace is going to stay long term.”
Trump has accelerated his push to stop a conflict that has persisted despite months of US diplomatic efforts and his campaign-trail vow to end it on his first day in office. The tone between the two leaders was notably improved from Zelenskiy’s last visit to the Oval Office in February.
Trump says a ceasefire was not necessary for other countries to agree to recent peace deals."
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| Source:Bloomberg News with a look at President Volodmyr Zelensky (Ukraine) and President Donald J. Trump (America) |
From Bloomberg News
It's not often that I and or anyone else from this blog ever quotes Hillary Clinton about anything, because she comes off as so staged and lacking in any spontaneity and original thinking whatsoever. But she had the perfect line last week when Russian President Vladimir Putin was in the news because he was about to meet President Trump in Alaska. She said:
"I would nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, if he can bring an end to the war in Ukraine, without Ukraine having to give up any of its territory. That might be a slight paraphrase, but it's very close. Even closer than Sarah Palin's backyard from Russia. (Ha, ha)
I mean if Donald Trump want to be the "strongman", the great world leader that he's always claiming to be, that's how he could earn his political and legacy bones. (So to speak) Get Russia out of Ukraine, without Ukraine giving up any of its territory. That's Ukraine's position and that's President Zelsnsky's position right now as well.
As far as President Trump's claim that Washington is safe enough for people to go out to restaurants again, since he sent Federal law enforcement to the city las week. He said during this press conference:
"President Trump said Monday that restaurants in Washington, D.C., are more crowded than they’ve been in a long time, despite data suggesting restaurant attendance amid his police takeover has taken a dive.
Trump, at an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said the result of his federal takeover is that D.C. is now safe, a week after he brought in the National Guard and federalized the police.
“The press says, ‘He’s a dictator, he’s trying to take over.’ No, all I want is security for our people. But people who haven’t gone out to dinner in Washington, D.C., in two years are going out to dinner, and the restaurants the last two days were busier than they’ve been in a long time,” the president said during an Oval Office meeting.
“Friends are calling me up, Democrats are calling me up. And they’re saying, ‘Sir, we want to thank you. My wife and I went out to dinner last night for the first time in four years, and Washington, D.C., is safe and you did that in four days,’” the president said.
He also shared that another friend told him his son was going to dinner and praised the federal law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
“I said, ‘Would you have allowed that to happen a year ago?’” Trump said. “He said, ‘No way. … What you’ve done in incredible.”
Data from OpenTable found that seated diners in Washington last week started to drop dramatically compared to last year, after Trump first announced he was taking federal control of D.C.’s police department and deploying the National Guard in the city, in what the administration has described as an effort to fight crime.
Beginning Monday, Aug. 11, seated diners at Washington restaurants, according to online reservation numbers, started to drop dramatically in comparison to the prior year, dipping 16 percent. On Wednesday, the number of seated diners at restaurants with reservations fell 31 percent, and Saturday’s drop was 20 percent.
During the Oval Office meeting, conservative commentator Brian Glenn offered more anecdotal support for Trump’s argument. He said he recently went out with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in D.C., joking, “if you can walk around D.C. with MTG and not be attacked, the city is safe.”
From The Hill
I never expect Donald Trump to even try to tell the truth, or even be honest, especially when he's off the cuff, like at a press briefing. But you still have to call out his garbage and nonsense (to be real kind) every time he throws this trash out there, so people don't take him seriously and think he's telling the truth.
There aren't as many people going out in Washington right now, who don't already live there, 1 week later after the President's law enforcement takeover of the city. The fact that they restored the city's chief of police last week, is an indicator that what the Feds are doing here, isn't going very well, or making much of, if any difference... other than preventing economic activity, like eating out, because of the Federal occupation of Washington.
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