'No plans' for Trump-Putin meeting 'in the immediate future' despite president's claims of Hungary summit: White House

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Independent

The White House is walking back President Donald Trump’s plan for talks on ending the four-year-old Russian war against Ukraine just days after he claimed he would meet with Vladimir Putin in Budapest next month.

A White House official told The Independent there are “no plans” for a sit-down between Trump and Putin “in the immediate future” because Secretary of State Marco Rubio had conducted a “productive call” with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov which made an in-person meeting between the two top diplomats “not necessary.”

News of the scrapped meeting plans comes just days after what Trump described as a similarly “productive” call with Putin on the eve of last Friday’s visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

At the time, Trump wrote on Truth Social that “great progress was made” in his push to end the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict and claimed he would meet with Putin in the Hungarian capital to discuss a peace settlement following a preparatory meeting between Rubio and Lavrov.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/no-plans-trump-putin-meeting-162848330.html

[D. Spaulding]

1. This will be the next press conference:

Reporter; "Who made the decision to cancel the Budapest summit?"
Lovely Lips Leavitt: "Your mom"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Poland threatens Putin with arrest if he flies through its airspace on way to Hungary

Putin cannot easily get to Budapest without going through airspace of countries who want to arrest him

Poland threatens Putin with arrest if he flies through its airspace on way to Hungary –
Poland’s foreign minister says Putin’s plane could be escorted down and Russian president handed to The Hague www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

— MissKrisss (@misskrisss.bsky.social) 2025-10-21T13:13:49.057Z

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/21/nicolas-sarkozy-france-jail-russia-ukraine-europe-news-live-updates

Poland warned Russia’s president Vladimir Putin on Tuesday against travelling through its airspace for a summit in Hungary with US president Donald Trump, saying it could be forced to execute an international arrest warrant if he did, Reuters reports.

Bulgaria, however, would be willing to let Putin use its airspace if the summit is held in Hungary, foreign minister Georg Georgiev was quoted as saying.

Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski told Radio Rodzina:

I cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court won’t order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand the suspect to the court in The Hague.

And, therefore, if this summit is to take place, hopefully with the participation of the victim of the aggression, the aircraft will use a different route.

The ICC warrant obligates the court’s member states to arrest Putin if he sets foot on their territory.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Is Trump so demented that he just made up this meeting?

[Fla Dem]

4. Trump. What a complete f'king fraud.