President Donald Trump told the Daily Caller that he doubts Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet anytime soon and that the two nations may “have to fight a little longer.”

“A trilateral meeting would happen. A bilateral, I don’t know about, but a tri will happen. But, you know, sometimes people aren’t ready for it,” Trump told the outlet’s White House correspondent, Reagan Reese, in a Friday interview published Saturday.

“I say, I use the analogy. I’ve used it a couple of times. You have a child, and there’s another child in the lot, in the playground, and they hate each other, and they start swinging, swinging, and swinging, and you want them to stop, and they keep going.

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