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Trump said to admit troubles with Gaza truce efforts: ‘They’d been fighting for a thousand years’
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US President Donald Trump speaks while signing legislation, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 9, 2025. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)
US President Donald Trump has expressed frustration with his promised tasks of ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza in a meeting with top donors in Florida last week, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people who were in the room.
On Gaza, Trump says finding a solution was difficult because “they’d been fighting for a thousand years,” the report quotes the US president as saying.
On Ukraine, Trump told the donors that the war kept him up at night, and that dialogue with Putin was a challenge because he “wanted the whole thing,” referring to all of Ukraine.
On the campaign trail, the US president boasted that he could bring the conflicts to a quick end, but has yet to do so after over 100 days in office.
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