Ledger · Second term · № 261
'Over the next week or two... at that point, I'll step in very strongly'
Never delivered“We'll see what happens over the next week or two. And at that point, I'll step in very strongly.”
- Promised
- , Remarks to reporters at the White House
- Stated deadline
- “over the next week or two” → September 8, 2025
- Overdue by
- 1 year as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 6 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Ukraine & Russia
- Era
- Second term
What happened
No intervention followed in the stated window. Through September 2025 there were no new US sanctions on Russia tied to the threat, and HuffPost catalogued the run of expired deadlines under the headline that Putin had faced no consequences.