U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he meets British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for bilateral talks at Trump Turnberry golf club on July 28, 2025 in Turnberry, Scotland.
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President Donald Trump said Monday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin less than two weeks to either reach a peace deal with Ukraine or face massive “secondary tariffs” on Moscow’s trade partners.
Trump previously gave Putin a 50-day deadline, which was set to expire in early September. But he signaled Monday that things were taking too long.
“I’m going to make a new deadline of about 10 — 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump told reporters in Scotland during a meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
“There’s no reason they’re waiting,” Trump said. “I want to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made.”
Trump revealed earlier Monday that he would shrink his 50-day deadline because he is “disappointed in President Putin.”
Trump had set that deadline on July 14, saying that buyers of Russian exports would face tariffs “at about 100%” if there was no ceasefire deal with Ukraine by September.
Trump once avoided criticizing Putin, but he has made his frustrations known in recent months as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has intensified.
He has complained that Putin will suggest in their phone calls that he is open to ending hostilities with Ukraine, and then will quickly order new military actions.
“Russia and Ukraine — I would have said five times we had a deal. I spoke to President Putin a lot. Got along with him very well,” Trump also said Monday.
“Then President Putin launches rockets into a city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people — in a nursing home, or wherever — and there are bodies lying all over the street,” he said.
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