Russia and Putin · 2024 campaign · № 84
Standing beside Zelensky, said he also has 'a very good relationship' with Putin and 'it takes two to tango'
“So, we have a very good relationship, and I also have a very good relationship, as you know, with President Putin.”
- Said
- , Remarks to reporters with Volodymyr Zelensky at Trump Tower, New York
- Subject
- Trump Tower with Zelensky
- Type
- Praise and deference
- Topic
- Ukraine & Russia
- Era
- 2024 campaign
What happened
Before a September 27, 2024 meeting at Trump Tower, Trump told reporters he had 'a very good relationship' with Zelensky and 'also' with Putin, and that if he won 'we're going to get it resolved very quickly.' Zelensky interjected, 'I hope we have more good relations between us'; Trump replied, 'it takes two to tango.' Zelensky said the two shared a 'common view that the war in Ukraine has to be stopped, and Putin can't win, and Ukraine has to prevail.' Two days earlier, at a rally in Mint Hill, North Carolina, Trump had said the United States continued 'to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelenskyy.'