Trump Promises to Keep Sending Military Aid to Ukraine Until a Peace Deal Is Made: ‘As Long As We Have To’

President Donald Trump took questions from reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday ahead of the swearing-in ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard to becoming the director of national intelligence.

The reporters peppered Trump with questions about his phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier in the day.

As the Q&A went on, a reporter asked, “When would the U.S. stop sending aid?”

“Because if we didn’t do that, then Putin would say he won. We’re the thing that’s holding it back. And frankly, we’ll go as long as we have to go because we’re not going to let the other happen. But President Putin wants to have peace now, and that’s good. And he didn’t want to have peace with Biden. And you tell me why that is,” Trump replied.

“Was that conversation with Putin to start these negotiations, part of the deal to bring Fogle home?” asked another reporter.

“No, but it was a nice thing that he allowed Marc Fogle to leave. In fact, Mark is wasn’t feeling well, but he was all of a sudden, about two weeks ago, he started being treated very nicely. He said they took him out for haircuts. They took him out. They helped him out a little bit and made him feel better,” Trump replied, adding:

Made him look better. And they were nice to him. And he said, ‘I saw something happening.’ And it had it coincided with when I came into office. So that was nice. And he was he’s a fine person. He was so happy to be out. He was there. He was there for three and a half years plus. And he shouldn’t have been there at all. He should have they should have had him out much faster than that.

“Sir, just to be clear, if you see any future in which Ukraine returns to its pre-2014 borders?” followed up a different reporter.

“Well, I think Pete said today that that’s unlikely. Right? It certainly would seem to be unlikely,” Trump replied, referring to earlier comments from Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth.

“They took a lot of land and they fought for that land and they lost a lot of they lost a lot of soldiers. But it would just seem to me and I’m not I’m not making an opinion on it, but I’ve read a lot on it. And a lot of people think that that’s unlikely. Some of it will come back. I think some of it will come back. Yeah, some of that land will come back,” Trump added.

Watch the clip above via CNN.