President Donald Trump said Friday he would “rather not” join a potential meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, though he left the door open.

Political messages don’t get much blunter than the Russian missiles that slammed into an American-owned manufacturing firm overnight Wednesday in western Ukraine, hundreds of miles away from the frontline trenches of a war with no end in sight.

Trump has previously compared himself publicly to Nixon in interviews, saying he learned from Nixon and contrasted his own political support.

Russian president Vladimir Putin is reportedly willing to freeze current front lines in exchange for Ukrainian territorial concessions and a NATO membership ban.

Republican lawmakers have been overwhelmingly complimentary of President Donald Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin and attempting to put the Russian leader in a room with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Donald Trump has been pictured with a heavy layer of make-up applied to his hand. The US president appeared to have a thick coating of foundation or concealer covering his right hand when he visited a museum located next to the White House on Friday.

President Donald Trump remarked in private comments to French President Emmanuel Macron that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin "wants to make a deal" with Ukraine for peace.

Vladimir Putin gave Donald Trump a strict 15-minute window to make a late-night phone call to the Kremlin after White House peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Laura Ingraham that after his discussions with Zelensky and a host of European leaders on Monday,