Trump to meet Putin in Hungary in effort to end 'inglorious' war

[nitpicked]

Source: The Hill

President Trump said Thursday he intends to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hungary in the coming weeks to discuss efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

Trump made the announcement following a lengthy phone call with Putin.

“At the conclusion of the call, we agreed that there will be a meeting of our High Level Advisors, next week. The United States’ initial meetings will be led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, together with various other people, to be designated,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “A meeting location is to be determined.

“President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary, to see if we can bring this ‘inglorious’ War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end,” he added.

((that's all from there))

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5558816-trump-putin-budapest-meeting/

[nitpicked]

1. Snip from The Guardian's live thread on US politics

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/oct/16/trump-latest-shutdown-vote-jd-vance-republicans-democrats

Trump says he will meet Putin again in Budapest
Donald Trump has said that his call with Vladimir Putin – which lasted more than two hours – was “good and productive” and that they agreed to convene a meeting of high-level staff, including secretary of state Marco Rubio, next week in an undetermined location.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he and Putin would then also meet again in Budapest “to see if we can bring this ‘inglorious’ War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end”. Trump said he would be discussing the call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House tomorrow, but he believed “great progress was made” today.
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[Initech]

2. Why Hungary? Oh yeah they have a fascist dictator too.

[appleannie1]

3. What is he going to offer Putin to do it?

[2naSalit]

4. Wonder what destruction...

He'll be ordered to conduct next. pootin is probably telling him to go ahead and kill civilians on Saturday.

[ck4829]

5. TACO? Because I seem to remember Trump demanding Putin end the war in a "couple of weeks" back in August

Oh yes, here.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/politics/putin-trump-two-weeks-peace-talks

[Klarkashton]

6. He was going to end it even before he was elected

It was so easy.

[FredGarvin]

7. Hand off of $10 billion dollars to Donald

No Tomahawks for Ukraine.

its that easy

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Just keep your shirts on guys

[bucolic_frolic]

9. That's backwards. Everything's usually negotiated before the pooh-bahs pose for the cameras.

So this is like announcing, no deal yet.

[TurboDem]

10. Time for another performance review? n/t

[J_William_Ryan]

11. "Oh yeah they have a fascist dictator too."

Three fascist dictators meet, somewhere Putin feels safe.