April 24, 2025

Nearing the 100-day mark of his administration, President Donald Trump is pushing Ukraine hard to accept the terms of a peace deal with Russia to end the three-year war by giving major territorial concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

But he bristled at the suggestion that he wasn’t pressuring Putin equally.

“You have no idea what pressure I’m putting on Russia,” Trump snapped at a reporter in the Oval Office. “We’re putting a lot of pressure on Russia.”

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