Dear colleagues,
President Trump spoke for about 50 minutes at a lunch with the White House Faith Office in the East Room of the White House.
Mr Trump began speaking after 12:30pm, mentioning Ukraine right at the top of his remarks.
“We're going to supply weapons to NATO, and a large amount, they're going to deliver the weapons, and they're going to pay for 100% of the weapons,” drawing applause from the crowd.
“It’s a big thing, and we thought we had four deals, Howard, right? With Putin,” referring to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick who in attendance.
“We’re going to be doing that with NATO and fully approved, fully done, and sending a lot of weapons of all kinds. And they're going to deliver those weapons immediately to the site, to the site of the war, different sites of the war, and they're going to pay for 100% of them.”
He said the effort was made possible by increasing member contribution from 2% to 5% a month ago now.
He reiterated that if a deal is not reached in 50 days, the US would impose secondary tariffs on Russia.
“Hopefully that will come to an end at the end of 50 days. If we don't have a deal, then we're going to have to do, we have no choice but to do secondary tariffs. You call it secondary tariffs, which are pretty tough, which we don't want to have to do. But let's see what happens.”
Earlier Mr Lutnick spoke to us journalists gathered and told us it was his birthday.
He also clarified some confusion over Mr Trump’s earlier mention of “secondary sanctions” rather than “secondary tariffs”.
“So it's economic sanction, not a sanction,” he said. “You can also make an economic penalty: if I catch doing it, then you'll have to pay.”
“You can do tariffs or you can do sanctions, those are both tools in his toolbox,” he said.
Quotes thanks to otter provided by colleague Geoff Earl from Mail Online.
Jihan Abdalla
Senior US Correspondent
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