He’s fooled a lot of people. He fooled Bush. He fooled a lot of people. He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden. He didn’t fool me.

We've made a deal today where we're going to be sending them weapons and they're going to be paying for them.

I think so. I spoke to him today.

It was Biden’s war.

I always hang up, say, 'Well, that was a nice phone call.' And then missiles are launched into Kyiv or some other city and I say, 'That's strange.'

The United States will not be having any payment made. We’re not buying it, but we will manufacture it, and they’re gonna be paying for it.

Putin talks nice and then he bombs everybody.

We’ve made a deal today where we are going to be sending them weapons and they are going to be paying for ‘em.

He's — I don't want to say he's an assassin, but he's a tough guy.

I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done and I always hang up and say, well, that was a nice phone call, and then missiles launched into Kyiv or some other city.

We are going to be sending them weapons and they’re going to be paying for them.

And be willing to be a little bit uncomfortable in defense of your values.

I’m disappointed in President Putin because I thought we woulda had a deal two months ago, but it doesn’t seem to get there.

We are open to talk, including to Europe.

But it was a great match.

Don’t tell me you’re a Democrat but you’re kind of disappointed right now, so you’re not doing anything.

So based on that, we’re gonna be doing secondary tariffs if we don’t have a deal in 50 days, it’s very simple. And they’ll be at 100 percent.

the European Union was “going to pay us 100% for that, and that’s the way we want it.”