The White House

The Russia-Ukraine war has turned out to be tougher than the Middle East.

Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate cease-fire.

We canceled the meeting with President Putin. It just, it didn’t feel right to meet.

These are tremendous sanctions. These are very big; these are against their two big oil companies.

I just felt it was time. Waited a long time.

Due to a massive missile and drone attack on the energy infrastructure, emergency power outages have been introduced in most regions of Ukraine.

I think it will be one of the great ballrooms anywhere in the world.

It was never thought of as being much. It was a very small building.

In order to do it properly we had to take down the existing structure.

They probably owe me a lot of money.

If you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.

So I don’t know that I want to get involved. It’s really a question of, would I rather have a Democrat or a Communist? And I would rather have a Democrat than a Communist if he dropped it.

If [Sliwa] dropped out, he’s not going to win — and not looking too good for Cuomo either.

It’s one thing to read about it, it’s one thing to talk with Jared and Steve on the phone about what’s going on on the ground.

But we’re going to keep on working at this process, and we’re going to keep on trying to bring the deceased hostages home.

But I’m not going to do what the president of the United States has thus far refused to do, which is put an explicit deadline on it, because a lot of this stuff is difficult.

It’s not the end. It is, in fact, exactly how this is going to have to happen when you have people who hate each other.

I want to say that there is this weird attitude I’ve sensed in the American media and the Western media, where there’s almost this desire to root for failure.

Can I say with 100% certainty that it's going to work? No, but you don't do difficult things by only doing what's 100% certain. You do difficult things by trying.

What we’ve seen the past week gives me great optimism the ceasefire is going to hold, and if we get from where we were a week ago to a long-term, durable peace between Israel and Gaza, there are going to be hills and valleys.

Look, I think that we are one week into President Trump's historic peace plan in the Middle East, and things are going frankly better than I expected that they were.

We are in a very good place. We're going to have to keep working on it.

This is not the end.

There are not going to be American boots on the ground in Gaza.