Vice President J.D. Vance described President Trump's decision to interrupt a meeting with European leaders and call Russian President Vladimir Putin around 1 a.m. Moscow time from the East Wing. Vance said Trump insisted on calling immediately rather than waiting for prepared vetting, framing the action as cutting through diplomatic protocol to get things done. Vance credited that no-holds-barred, no-B.S. diplomacy with advancing progress. President Trump posted that he called Putin to begin arranging a meeting between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and that a trilateral meeting with all three leaders would follow as an early step toward resolving the nearly four-year war.
So we're actually in the East Wing of the White House and the president says, You know, we've had a pretty good meeting, I'm gonna go call Vladimir Putin and see what he says about it, and everybody's like, Oh, you're gonna call him next week? and he's like, No, what time is it in Moscow? Let's call him right now.
I think, one of the things I realized about President Trump's leadership is he cuts through the B.S. of some of these diplomatic protocols and just says, I'm gonna get things done. If I want to talk to somebody, I'm gonna talk to somebody. You had a lot of the Europeans who were saying, No, no, no, there needs to be proper, you know, vetting and the teams have to prepare the phone call and blah blah, and the president was like, No, no, no.
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