President Donald Trump answered questions on topics from Russia and Gaza to Jeffrey Epstein for more than an hour alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his Scotland trip.

The wide-ranging informal press conference, convened half-way through Trump’s meeting with Starmer in Turnberry, Scotland, before the pair travel to Aberdeenshire for the opening of the president’s new golf course, was striking due to his response to the Epstein question, pivoting to attack former President Bill Clinton, in what was otherwise a formal setting.

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Here are six takeaways from the Trump-Starmer press conference:

1. Trump gives Putin ’10 to 15′ days to make peace with Ukraine

Trump announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “10 to 15” days to reach a peace deal with Ukraine, or he will face tariffs, and his trading partners will be subject to secondary sanctions, following his earlier provision of 50 days to broker an agreement.

“There’s no reason in waiting,” Trump said on Monday. “It would be sanctions and maybe tariffs, secondary tariffs… I don’t want to do that to Russia. I love the Russian people.”

Trump expressed his continued frustration with Putin’s commitment to his war against Ukraine, contending he is “not so interested in talking anymore” to his Russian counterpart. However, while Trump declined to call Putin a liar, he also expressed sympathy for Putin’s similar experience to his regarding the Russia interference “hoax” during and after the 2016 election.

“He talks — we have such nice conversations, and such respectful and nice conversations, and then people die the following night with a missile going into a town,” Trump said of Putin and Ukraine.

2. Trump breaks with Netanyahu over Gaza hunger crisis

Trump repeated his disagreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has claimed there is “no starvation” in Gaza, with the president promising that the U.S. would set up “food centers” in the enclave to help feed people.

“We’re also going to make sure that they don’t have barriers stopping people,” Trump said. “We can save a lot of people. That’s real starvation. I see it, and you can’t fake that.”

Trump pledged that the food centers would be “in conjunction with some very good people and we are going to supply funds” after growing criticism of Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid into Gaza.

“I’m speaking to Bibi Netanyahu and we are coming up with various plans,” he said of “phase two” of the Israel-Hamas peace deal regarding “what’s gonna happen afterwards.”

3. Trump says he never had the ‘privilege’ of going to Epstein’s island

Trump sought to distance himself from the ongoing controversy regarding his administration’s mismanagement of the Epstein files by trying to underscore the late financier and convicted sex offender’s connection with other high-profile men.

“I never went to the island and Bill Clinton went there supposedly 28 times,” Trump said of Epstein’s island. “I never had the privilege of going to his island… In one of my very good moments, I turned it down. I didn’t want to go to his island.”

Trump was asked again about the prospect of him pardoning Epstein’s accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, reiterating that he has the power to do so after the Justice Department interviewed Maxwell last week to temper the criticism concerning his administration’s lack of disclosure with respect to the files.

“But nobody’s approached me with it, nobody’s asked me about it,” he said. “It’s in the news about that, that aspect of it, but right now it would be inappropriate to talk about it.”

4. Trump confirms worldwide tariff before Aug. 1 trade deal deadline

Trump confirmed he was poised to impose a worldwide tariff of 15-20% on goods imported into the U.S. from countries that have not received a personalized letter with individualized levies days before his Aug. 1 deadline for trade deals.

The update comes after Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union beside European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen in Scotland on Sunday. That deal follows last week’s agreement with Japan, in addition to other arrangements with Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

“We’re going to be setting a tariff for the rest of the world and that’s what they’re going to pay if they want to do business in the United States because you can’t sit down and make 200 deals,” Trump said.

Of his administration’s ongoing negotiations in China this week in Sweden, Trump conveyed confidence after a preliminary deal was struck in May.

“We have a good relationship with China,” he said. “We’re going to see what happens.”

5. Trump leans on Federal Reserve Chairman Jermone Powell to lower interest rates

Trump kept up his pressure campaign on Powell to lower interest rates this week when the Federal Reserve Board meets to discuss its monetary policy strategy.

Trump told reporters he thinks Powell “has to” lower rates after last week touring the new Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, D.C. as he previews its blown budget as a reason to fire the central bank chief before his term expires next year.

“I’m not going to say anything bad,” Trump said. “We’re doing so well even without the rate cut. With the rate cut it would be better, affects our housing a little bit.”

6. Trump sidesteps questions regarding King Charles’s support of windmills

Trump remained adamant in his dislike for windmills amid his long-running complaint about Scotland permitting offshore windmills near his Aberdeenshire golf course.

“Wind is a disaster,” he said. “You can take 1,000 times more than energy out of a hole in the ground this big. This big. It’s called oil and gas.”

Trump, who earlier praised King Charles III, who is grappling with cancer before his state visit to the United Kingdom in September, was asked whether the monarch, who supports renewable energy, is “wrong” on the issue.

“King Charles is an environmentalist, I will tell you,” he said. “I say that in a positive, not a negative way.”

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Simultaneously, Trump did not hesitate to criticize London Mayor Sadiq Khan, whom he dismissed as a “nasty person.”

“I’m not a fan of your mayor,” he said. “I think he’s done a terrible job.”