Donald Trump Says He’s Received Letter From Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky Saying He’s Ready To Negotiate Peace Deal With Russia — Update

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UPDATE: Five days after the blowup in the Oval Office, Donald Trump said that he had received a letter from Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky saying that he is “ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible.” “I appreciate that he has sent this letter,” Trump said, while adding that he has received “strong sigals from Russia that it is ready for peace.” Trump also said that Zelensky was ready to sign a minerals deal.

That agreement was put on hold after Trump ordered Zelensky and his entourage to leave the White House after the Oval Office confrontation on Friday. PREVIOUSLY: Donald Trump vowed to take back the Panama Canal, claiming that a 1970s agreement to hand over the canal to Panama had been violated. “The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans,” he said.

Trump also talked of another expansionist desire: Greenland. He acknowledged that it would be up to residents of Greenland to determine their destiny, but “one way or the other we are going to get it.” As the speech has gone on, Democrats have been leaving, with a couple of rows nearly empty. PREVIOUSLY: Donald Trump’s reality TV moment came when he called out DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old boy who has suffered from brain cancer and who has had dreams of becoming a police officer.

Trump had his Secret Service director Sean Curran name Daniel an honorary agent. The moment drew a rare round of applause throughout the chamber.