Better than anyone · Second term · № 56
Knew better than anybody about sanctions
“Yeah, we're going to put sanctions. I don't know that sanctions bother him. You know, they know about sanctions. I know better than anybody about sanctions and tariffs and everything else. I don't know if that has any effect, but we're going to do it.”
- Said
- , Exchange with reporters at the White House
- Subject
- sanctions
- Topic
- Ukraine & Russia
- Era
- Second term
What the record showed
He had threatened new sanctions on Russia if Moscow did not agree to a peace deal by the following week, while saying he did not know whether sanctions bother Putin. On August 15, 2025 he instead met Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, and said afterward that "there's no deal until there's a deal" and that he would call NATO and President Zelenskyy about the meeting.