President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he is considering additional sanctions against Moscow, commenting at his Cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C., that Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be “nice,” but his actions are “meaningless.”

“We get a lot of bull***t thrown at us by Putin if you want to know the truth,” Trump commented, according to a video posted on X by his Rapid Response 47 team. “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting war “should never have happened,” Trump further commented. “A lot of people are dying, and it should end.”

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