EDIT: I have to stop. C-SPAN is editing the transcript. It’s not just hidden in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and no punctuation or paragraphs. I’m sorry, you have to listen to the rest. I’m getting to angry about not having a reliable transcript. CSPAN sucks donkey balls. Also, Lemmy. It has been giving me a really hard time posting this. I don’t know how or why, but I’ve really had a hard time with this.
I will be adding the transcript below and stickying it.
Special Note: There is no video of the intro part, before lunch, where Trump talks about speaking with Putin.
0-Transcript-Before lunch
Trump: Thank you very much. It is an honor to have President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
We have been working very hard and very close. We have known each other for a long time. We had a little negotiation spat, but that worked out great for both countries and the world.
We have something that is a very fair deal. We look forward to getting it and digging, digging, digging, digging, digging and getting some of the rare earth. That means we will be inside.
It is a big commitment for the United States and we appreciate working with you very much. We will continue to do that. We have had some very good discussions with Russia. I spoke with President Putin and we will try to bring this to a close. Something you want and he wants. We will negotiate a deal. We have started the confines of a deal.
The big thing is the number of soldiers being killed, losing thousands of soldier on both sides. We want to see it stoip. We want to see the money get put to different kinds of use. Rebuilding.
We will be working very hard. We have had a lot of very good conversations. Until we came along, the Biden Administration did not speak to Russia whatsoever. They did not speak to anyone. they just allowed this to continue.
I will say in front of you, you have heard me say it 1000 times. If I was president, this war would never have happened. We would have had a deal negotiated for you without you having to go through what you have gone through.
Your soldiers have been unbelievably brave. We have given them great equipment. Somebody has to use the equipment and they are unbelievably brave. We give them credit.
This was supposed to be over quickly, and here we are three years later. I give tremendous credit to your generals and your soldiers and yourself in the sense that it has been very hard fighting, very tough fighting. Great fighters. You have to be very proud of them. Now we want to get it over with. That is enough.
It is an honor to have you here. Thank you very much for coming. We will sign the agreement at the conference in the East Room in a little while, right after lunch. We will be having lunch together. We will be discussing some other things and we appreciate everybody being here. It is an exciting moment. the really exciting moment is when they stop the shooting and we end up with the deal. I think we are fairly close to getting that. It is an honor to have you.