Is Trump turning against Putin?
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Has Trump just started to work out he’s being played by Putin? A light bulb moment is going on in the White House - Washington officials are privately admitting that the Ukraine peace deal is not going to plan.
Whilst fifty senators have combined forces to seek new sanctions on Russia, we ask whether Trump has lost patience with Putin and whether this will make him double down or walk away? We hear what the Kremlin makes of this - with the BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg.
Later, Senator Cory Booker breaks TikTok with his 25 HOURS long speech on the senate floor.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | I can tell you what the president said last night, and that is he is frustrated with leaders on both sides of this war. |
| 0:19.8 | He wants this war to end. There are men that are |
| 0:22.9 | dying on both sides, and it's been going on for far too long. Our team continues to be engaged |
| 0:28.5 | with the Russians as we are with the Ukrainians. That's Caroline Levitt, press secretary to Donald |
| 0:33.4 | Trump. Donald Trump is the man, of course, who promised he would solve the Ukraine-Russia |
| 0:37.8 | conflict on day one of his presidency. It hasn't happened. And he's now looking around for who |
| 0:44.7 | to blame for the slowness. We're wondering whether Trump and Putin are on a collision course |
| 0:50.7 | right now. The mood music has changed. Is the bromance over? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 0:59.8 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And Donald Trump has just this second tweeted |
| 1:06.3 | its Liberation Day in America. We're not going to talk about tariffs right now because we've |
| 1:12.0 | spoken about tariffs a great deal. We're going to talk about Russia, Ukraine, which has been the other |
| 1:17.4 | thing that Donald Trump has been promising in his first hundred days. And so far, the last time I |
| 1:22.9 | looked, peace has not broken out in Ukraine. The Russians are still on the offensive. And Donald Trump, |
| 1:30.0 | you sense, is getting increasingly frustrated that Vladimir Putin is not doing what Donald |
| 1:37.6 | Trump wanted him to do. Yeah. And now Washington officials couple have told Reuters that they're acknowledging that Putin is, what they say, actively resisting their attempts to strike a ceasefire. |
| 1:52.5 | And they're now looking at what, if any, economic or diplomatic punishments could be put in place to push Russia closer to a deal. |
| 2:02.2 | Interestingly, in the Senate, about half of the Senate, and this is a bipartisan group, |
| 2:06.3 | half Democrats, 25 Democrats, 25 Republicans, are now banding together to try and work out |
| 2:12.5 | if there is a sanction to impose on Russia, which would be pushed towards it if it refuses to engage in |
| 2:20.8 | what looks like goodwill talks on Ukraine. It's very unlikely that there is any trade sanction, |
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