Trump Vents at Putin and Sends More Weapons to Ukraine

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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At a cabinet meeting, Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin is "very nice" but it turns out to be "meaningless," as the U.S. also resumes arms shipments to Ukraine's defenders. Does this frustration with Russia suggest a shift in the White House's approach? One signal will be if the Senate passes Lindsey Graham's bill to sanction countries that buy Russian oil and gas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.5	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:40.6	Is President Trump finally losing patience with Vladimir Putin? That's the big question. As Trump says the U.S. will resume weapons
0:46.7	shipments to Ukraine's defenders, as Russia launches what some reports are calling the war's biggest
0:52.4	aerial attacks on Ukraine so far. Welcome, I'm
0:56.5	Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, Senator Board
1:02.2	member Kate Bachelder O'Dell, and columnist Joe Sternberg in London. President Trump's
1:08.1	pledged to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office was never
1:13.5	realistic, but now after 170 days, he's beginning to sound frustrated that just maybe Vladimir
1:20.0	Putin doesn't actually want peace. Here's the president on Tuesday during an extraordinary
1:25.7	cabinet meeting explaining his unhappiness with the Russian leader.
1:29.4	We get a lot of bull-h-h-thrown at us by Putin, for you want to know the truth.
1:33.5	He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.
1:38.3	And here's Trump a day earlier in mid a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
1:43.8	explaining that the U.S. is going
1:45.7	to resume weapons shipments.
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