Trump admin updates: Trump teases 'big day' at White House
President Donald Trump also said Zelenskyy can end the war "almost immediately."
President Donald Trump returned from Alaska after his high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the president's crime-reduction push in Washington, D.C. continues.
National Guard are in Washington as part of Trump's plan to reduce violent crime in the city.
On Friday, an order by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi designating the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration Terry Cole as the District's "Emergency Police Commissioner" was retooled after a legal challenge by local officials.
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Trump meets with Intel CEO whose resignation he demanded
Trump said that he met with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent Monday afternoon, according to a post on the president’s social media platform.
"The meeting was very interesting. His success and rise is an amazing story," Trump said Tan.
"Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are going to spend time together, and bring suggestions to me during the next week," he continued.
The meeting occurred after Trump demanded Tan’s resignation on social media last week.
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Trump says DC takeover will be a 'model' for other cities
Wrapping up a press conference in the White House briefing room, President Donald Trump declared, "We're going to be taking back our capital."
"It's going to be a model. And then we'll look at other cities also, but other cities are studying what we're doing. And you have some capable people in other cities, they can do it too. But we have a great group of professionals, we're going to have a safe, beautiful capital and it's going to happen very quickly," Trump added.
Trump talk US-Russia trade as Putin meeting approaches
President Donald Trump said he believed the United States and Russia could engage in trade talks as a result of the upcoming meeting of the president and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Asked if he believed "normal trade" could happen between the U.S. and Russia should the meeting go well, Trump said "I do."
"Russia has a very valuable piece of land. If Vladimir Putin would go toward business instead of toward war, you know, it's a warring nation. That's what they do," Trump said.
Trump says Alaska summit is a 'feel out meeting' with Putin
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.