The president has always had a very odd conception of Vladimir Putin.

I think he's thought that he and Putin could be kind of friends and partners and could make deals together and so on.

I don't think Putin has changed. I don't know what the president's talking about.

This is the way Putin has always been.

He's always been a particularly brutal dictator, willing to take whatever measures he thought

necessary to advance his interest, whatever he thought he could get away with.

He thought he could get away with invading Ukraine.

He thought he could conquer Ukraine a matter of days.

He failed to do that.

And he has been spending his own people's bloodshed blood and treasure for as long as he's needed to after that.

And now he seems more intent than ever.

He's the same old Vladimir Putin.

So I hope the president has had a real moment of truth about him and will proceed accordingly.

Fox News, chief political analyst, Brit Hume, weighing in on President Trump's social media post where he said the Russian president had gone crazy.

We'll go through the response from the Kremlin and how the escalating rhetoric could impact peace talks with Ukraine.

Plus, we'll get a live report from Tel Aviv for the latest on a reported

ceasefire proposal from President Trump's Middle East envoy. Also ahead, we're going to dig into

the latest developments with President Trump's trade wars as the markets are reacting to his

delay of another big tariff. Meanwhile, the president spent part of Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery,

honoring fallen service members, but he also mixed in some campaign-style comments. And we'll have an

update on the escape of several inmates from a jail in New Orleans, a story we've been following for over a week.

Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe.

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