Out-of-Town pool report #4 — POTUS on Russia and Ukraine

POTUS spoke briefly to press from the tarmac and said he told President Putin and President Zelensky to stop the war immediately and "go by the battle line wherever it is or else it gets too complicated."

"Stop right now at the battle line," he said.

Trump characterized the meeting with Zelensky as "a very good meeting, a very cordial meeting."

In response to a shouted question about how long the shutdown would continue, Trump said, "the Republican Party is not going to pay a trillion and a half dollars to illegal immigrants coming into our country, coming in for a lot of reasons, coming in from prison, from jails, from all over the place, from Venezuela, many countries. We're not going to do that, so the shutdown continues."

He did not take further questions from reporters.

Will Scharf, Walt Nauta and Chamberlain Harris are also here in Palm Beach.

Emily Davies

White House Reporter

The Washington Post

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