Trump admin updates: Trump teases 'big day' at White House

President Donald Trump was asked on Monday about his upcoming sit-down with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.

"This is really a feel-out meeting, a little bit," Trump said.

"President Putin invited me to get involved. He wants us to get involved. I think, I believe, he wants to get it over," he said.

Trump said he would call European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy immediately after he and Putin meet.

"The next meeting will be with Zelenskyy and Putin, or Zelenskyy and Putin and me. I'll be there if they need, but I want to have a meeting set up between the two leaders," the president said.

Asked if similar actions will be taken in other major cities around the United States, President Donald Trump said he will "see what happens" and said he hopes some of them "self clean up."

He singled out Chicago and Los Angeles as cities that need improvement.

"If we need to, we're going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster," Trump said, slamming the city's mayor and Illinois' governor.

President Donald Trump was asked on Monday about reports that he is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug.

"We're only looking at that, that's early," Trump responded. He added, "Some people like it. Some people hate it."

Marijuana is currently classified as a Schedule I drug, listed alongside heroin and LSD as "drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse."

President Donald Trump is also setting his sights on eradicating homeless encampments from Washington.

"We're going to be removing homeless encampments from all over our parks, our beautiful, beautiful parks, which now a lot of people can't walk on. They've been very, very dirty, very -- got a lot of problems. But we've already started that," the president said at Monday's news conference.

"They're getting rid of the people from underpasses and public spaces from all over the city. There are many places that they can go, and we're going to help them as much as you can help. But they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland for the world to see. The Metropolitan Police Department and the federal authorities will be supported in the effort," Trump said.