During some press remarks as he departed the UAE, President Trump was asked about the non-appearance of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Turkey summit.  President Trump noted he did not expect Putin to attend without Trump’s presence at the summit.

When asked when President Trump would be likely to speak in person with President Putin, Trump remarked:

…”As soon as we can set it up. I would actually leave here and go, but I do want to see my beautiful grandson, and we’ll be doing that. But I will tell you that the world is a much safer place right now, and I think in two or three weeks we can have it be a much, much safer place. We’re going to handle a couple of situations that you have here, some very serious situations, and we’re looking at Gaza and we’ve got to get that taken care of, and a lot of people are starving, there’s a lot of bad things going on.”…

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