{"id":2473422,"date":"2025-08-11T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-next-meeting-after-putin-summit-will-involve-zelensky\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:13:12","slug":"trump-says-next-meeting-after-putin-summit-will-involve-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-next-meeting-after-putin-summit-will-involve-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says &#8216;next meeting&#8217; after Putin summit will involve Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-next-meeting-after-putin-summit-will-involve-zelensky%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2473422&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to be included in peace negotiations following an upcoming U.S.-Russia summit. President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kremlin-says-vatican-shouldnt-host-peace-talks-due-to-religious-differences-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Kremlin says Vatican shouldn&#039;t host peace talks due to religious differences- Washington Examiner\">discuss peace efforts<\/a> and plans to promptly consult European leaders afterward. trump indicated that the next meeting will involve Zelensky and putin, possibly with Trump present, aiming to facilitate direct dialog between the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>European leaders have expressed concern that the summit might result in land concessions favorable to Russia, which Zelensky opposes, insisting that any proposed &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debunking-the-lefts-lies-about-israel-and-the-palestinians\/\" title=\"Debunking The Left\u2019s Lies About Israel And The Palestinians\">land swaps<\/a>&#8221; must be approved by Ukraine and emphasizing that Russia should not benefit from its invasion. Zelensky condemned Russia&#8217;s ongoing aggression and called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-leaders-wary-trump-putin-summit-could-end-with-land-concessions\/\" title=\"EU ... ...y ... could end with ...\">stronger global pressure<\/a> without rewarding Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Trump acknowledged his good relationships with European leaders and Zelensky but reiterated his past criticism of Zelensky&#8217;s role in the conflict, stating he disagrees strongly with the Ukrainian president and suggesting the war should never have happened. Trump&#8217;s views on both Zelensky and Putin have varied, reflecting changing diplomatic dynamics.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4686-3758\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:14832835450050406,size:[0, 0],id:\"ld-4686-3758\"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.decide.dev\/_js\/ajs.js\";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,\"script\",\"ld-ajs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump says &lsquo;next meeting&rsquo; after Putin summit will involve Zelensky<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2199962\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> is expected to be brought into peace negotiations following the U.S.-Russia summit this week.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump, who will meet with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> in Alaska on Friday to negotiate for peace, told reporters on Monday that he would then relay information to Europe to jointly discuss the next steps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3496144\/european-leaders-wary-trump-putin-summit-land-concessions\/\">European leaders wary that Trump-Putin summit could end with land concessions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3495990\/colombian-presidential-candidate-miguel-uribe-dies-campaign-event-shooting\/\">Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe dies months after campaign event shooting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3495977\/trump-encourages-china-to-buy-us-soybeans\/\">Trump encourages China to buy US soybeans as Asian nation faces shortage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ll have constructive conversations,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;Then after that meeting, immediately, maybe as I&rsquo;m flying out, maybe as I&rsquo;m leaving the room, I&rsquo;ll be calling the European leaders, who I get along with very well and I have a great relationship.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be speaking to Zelensky,&rdquo; he told the press. &ldquo;The next meeting will be with Zelensky and Putin, or Zelensky and Putin and me. I&rsquo;ll be there if they need, but I want to have a meeting set up between the two leaders.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump is scheduled to participate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3496144\/european-leaders-wary-trump-putin-summit-land-concessions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">summit with European leaders<\/a> on Wednesday ahead of the Alaska meeting with Putin. Heads of state on the Old Continent are concerned that the United States will attempt to push through a deal with the Kremlin that offers too many concessions.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky maintains that Trump&rsquo;s proposed &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-echoes-trump-on-russia-ukraine-land-swaps\/\" title=\"Graham echoes ... on ...-Ukraine &#039;...&#039;\">land swaps&#038;rdquo<\/a>; must be reviewed and approved by Ukraine, asserting that Russia cannot be allowed to benefit from its invasion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Russia is dragging out the war, and therefore it <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >deserves stronger global pressure<\/a>. Russia refuses to stop the killings, and therefore must not receive any rewards or benefits,&rdquo; Zelensky wrote in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1954852099813982458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday. &ldquo;And this is not just a moral position &ndash; it is a rational one. Concessions do not persuade a killer. But truly strong protection of life stops the killers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president touted his ability to &ldquo;get along&rdquo; with European leaders, including Zelensky, but resurrected past criticisms of the Ukrainian leader, saying he disagrees with what Zelensky has done &mdash; &ldquo;very, very severely disagree.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a war that should have never happened, wouldn&rsquo;t have happened,&rdquo; he said, seeming to reiterate his previously stated belief that Zelensky shares responsibility for the conflict.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs the Security Council meeting on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, at the Kremlin in Moscow. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump most forcefully voiced this criticism of the Ukrainian leader in April, when he said that the nation helped &ldquo;start a war&rdquo; that it was incapable of winning. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles,&rdquo; Trump said in April. &ldquo;When you start a war, you&rsquo;ve got to know you can win.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Millions of people dead because of three people,&rdquo; Trump also said. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s say Putin, No. 1, let&rsquo;s say Biden, who had no idea what the hell he was doing, No. 2, and Zelensky.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3496144\/european-leaders-wary-trump-putin-summit-land-concessions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">EUROPEAN LEADERS WARY THAT TRUMP-PUTIN SUMMIT COULD END WITH LAND CONCESSIONS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump resumed his affectionate tone when discussing Putin, saying he &ldquo;thought it was very respectful that the president of Russia is coming to our country, as opposed to us going to his country, or even a third-party place.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president&rsquo;s assessments of Zelensky and Putin have proven extremely mercurial, fluctuating on both sides between ire and fondness depending on the state of diplomatic efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2199962\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2199962\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says Zelensky will join talks after Putin summit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2473423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25223534871039.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4470,3733,7778,3634,8630],"class_list":["post-2473422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-meeting","tag-putin","tag-summit","tag-trump","tag-zelensky"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP25223534871039.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473426,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473422\/revisions\/2473426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}