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The U.S. leader disclosed the upcoming conversation to reporters
while flying from Florida to Washington on Air Force One on
Sunday evening.
“We will see if we have something to announce maybe by Tuesday.
I will be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday,” Trump said.
"A lot of work's been done over the weekend. We want to see if
we can bring that war to an end.”
Any such conversation could be a pivot point in the conflict and
an opportunity for Trump to continue reorienting American
foreign policy. European allies are wary of Trump's affinity for
Putin and his hardline stance toward Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who faced sharp criticism when he visited
the Oval Office a little more than two weeks ago.
Although Russia failed in its initial goal to topple Ukraine
with its invasion three years ago, it still controls large
swaths of the country.
Trump said land and power plants are part of the conversation
around bringing the war to a close.
“We will be talking about land. We will be talking about power
plants,” he said.
Trump described it as "dividing up certain assets.”
Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff recently visited Moscow to
advance negotiations, and he said earlier Sunday that a call
between Trump and Putin could come soon.
During his conversation with reporters on Air Force One, Trump
said he was pushing forward with his plans for tariffs on April
2 despite recent disruption in the stock market and nervousness
about the economic impact.
“April 2 is a liberating day for our country," he said. "We’re
getting back some of the wealth that very, very foolish
presidents gave away because they had no clue what they were
doing.”
Trump has occasionally changed course on some tariff plans, such
as with Mexico, but he said he had no intention to do so when it
comes to reciprocal tariffs.
“They charge us and we charge them," he said. "Then in addition
to that, on autos, on steel, on aluminum, we’re going to have
some additional tariffs.”
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