Donald Trumps 9-word warning to staff spotted | Political News

President Donald Trump seemingly issued a nine-word remark to a staffer minutes before addressing a Republican senators on the third week of the federal government shutdown.

In a live shot of the Oval Office, President Donald Trump was seen signing a few paperwork before leaning into the digicam body and jokingly saying one thing to, presumably, a staffer. Speaking with the Daily Express U.S., lip reader Nicola Hickling claims that the president said, “I am talking to you right, you listen to me.”

The president allegedly continued by saying, “That’s why. This one is not a condition, it’s a warning” before shifting offscreen. The joking back and forth comes as Trump’s assembly with Vladimir Putin was reportedly called off.

According to experiences, the resolution was made after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, which White House sources told GWN led Rubio to conclude the 2 international locations have “divergent expectations” about ending the conflict in Ukraine. Later in the day, a White House official told The Independent that there are “no plans” for the 2 world leaders to meet in particular person in the instant future, following a “productive call” between the 2 diplomats that rendered an in-person assembly “not necessary.”

Trump announced the summit in Budapest, Hungary, “within two weeks or so” on Friday, after talking with Putin over the telephone forward of his assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House to focus on a potential arms exchange. The U.S. chief intimated that Putin begged him to block the arms deal after hinting at the concept, involving the exchange of U.S. Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles for Ukrainian drones to replenish the nation’s dwindling weapons stockpile.

While Washington and Kyiv failed to attain an settlement relating to the missiles, Zelensky expressed hope that the deal just isn’t off the desk. Zelensky said he believes Putin is “afraid” of Kyiv acquiring the long-range missiles amid its attrition operation deep within Russian territory.

The summit’s location would have proved tough for Putin as he would have had to navigate the European Union’s blanket ban on Russian journey through its airspace. Earlier Tuesday, Polish authorities threatened to have Putin arrested and turned over to the International Criminal Court, which has accused him of committing conflict crimes, if he flew through its airspace.

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Hungary is at present trying to pull out of the ICC, though it seemingly wouldn’t have cooperated regardless, as Hungarian President Viktor Orban stays one of Putin’s closest E.U. allies. The two leaders most lately met for a summit in Anchorage, Alaska, in August.

The assembly cancellation comes as the conflict in Ukraine approaches its fourth anniversary in February after Russia‘s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Sergey Lavrov issued his own assertion relating to a doable end to the conflict.

“Russia will NOT agree to a ceasefire until the foundation causes of the battle in Ukraine are resolved,” said Foreign Minister Lavrov. Russia‘s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov dismissed those claims on Tuesday, saying, “It’s incorrect to say the meeting was delayed” because “no agreement existed to begin with.”

“You can’t postpone something that was never agreed upon,” Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow. “We had no understanding of the timing or the place for such a contact. The idea exists, of course, and it’s an important one – but it requires preparation. That’s what we’re doing.”