President Donald Trump told NBC News’s Kristen Welker early Sunday he took exception to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Friday call for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be removed from office.
Trump, speaking over the phone, said he was “very angry” with and “pissed off” by Putin.
Putin weighed in Friday from the sidelines of the International Arctic Forum in Murmansk in northwestern Russia about the war in Ukraine. He said his country could negotiate with the West “under the auspices of the UN, the possibility of establishing a transitional administration in Ukraine,” according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Trump told NBC News that Putin’s remarks were “not going in the right location” and that Russia risked being hit with secondary tariffs.
“If Russia and I are unable to…
