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‘I have some controversial people on it’: Trump reveals Putin will join his Board of Peace
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US President Donald Trump (R) walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin as they arrive at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/ Getty Images/ AFP)
US President Donald Trump reveals that Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted his invitation to join the Board of Peace.
“I have some controversial people on it, but these are people who get the job done. These are people who have tremendous influence,” Trump tells reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “We want all nations where people have control and power.”
“If I put all babies on the board, there wouldn’t be very much. So he was invited. He’s accepted,” Trump says of Putin.
The board is “going to get a lot of work done that the United Nations should have done, and we’ll work with the United Nations,” he adds.
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