Trump gives summit with Putin 25% chance of failure
Aug 15, 2025
Washington [US], August 15: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he's giving his Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin a 25% chance of failure.
"There is a 25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting," Trump told Fox News Radio.
"In which case I will run the country, and we have made America great again already in six months." The US president reiterated that he views this first meeting in Alaska as primarily preparation for a second meeting.
"This meeting sets up the second meeting. The second meeting is going to be very, very important - cuz that's gonna be the meeting where they make a deal and I don't wanna use the word divvy things up but you know to a certain extend it's not a bad term, okay?"
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is not invited to the summit in Alaska, has consistently opposed giving up Ukrainian territory that Russia has seized during the war launched by Moscow more than three years ago.
Source: Qatar Tribune
