{"id":77200,"date":"2017-07-08T11:12:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-08T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77200"},"modified":"2017-07-08T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T15:13:21","slug":"trump-meeting-with-putin-was-tremendous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=77200","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Meeting with Putin was \u2018tremendous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/395702-trump-putin-meeting-tremendous\/video\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u00a9 Carlos Barria \/ Reuters<\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said that his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday was \u201ctremendous.\u201d The first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders lasted for more than two hours on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI had a tremendous meeting yesterday with President Putin,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Trump said while speaking with UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIDEO: \u2018Tremendous meeting with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Putin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Putin<\/a>,\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trump<\/a> says during talks with May, confirms he will be going to London <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AOETEkYFOq\">https:\/\/t.co\/AOETEkYFOq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/prkrdyND4Z\">pic.twitter.com\/prkrdyND4Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RT America (@RT_America) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_America\/status\/883614394885832704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/margarettalev\/status\/883585432457555968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F395702-trump-putin-meeting-tremendous%2F<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With Prime Minister May at his side, Trump says he had &quot;tremendous meeting yesterday with President Putin.&quot; He says he will visit U.K.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffzeleny\/status\/883583636842450944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Rex and I had a tremendous meeting yesterday with President Putin,&quot; Trump says sitting beside PM May. (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HorsleyScott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HorsleyScott<\/a> pic) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J8xOvHiztR\">pic.twitter.com\/J8xOvHiztR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenportnoy\/status\/883587135927967744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Putin and Trump met for more than two hours, instead of the planned 30-40 minutes. The leaders had\u00a0<em>\u201cpositive chemistry\u201d<\/em>and\u00a0<em>\u201cconnected quickly,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said after the meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The US and Russian leaders were joined at the meeting by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders discussed many topics, including Ukraine, Syria, and cybersecurity and fighting terrorism, according to Putin, who spoke at a news conference later.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spot the difference? Putin-Trump meeting reminds of \u2018House of Cards\u2019 moment at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/G20?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#G20<\/a> Summit (PHOTOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XRXzKRfm3G\">https:\/\/t.co\/XRXzKRfm3G<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nM3uLV08Jj\">pic.twitter.com\/nM3uLV08Jj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/883520759561412608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the meeting, US and Russian officials announced a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/395632-us-russia-ceasefire-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ceasefire agreement<\/a>\u00a0in southwestern Syria, set to take effect on July 9. The ceasefire applies to the southern Daraa, Quneitra, and As-Suwayda provinces.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn this zone, the ceasefire regime will take effect on July 9 starting 12:00 Damascus time,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the meeting between Trump and Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The presidents also agreed to create a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/395649-ukraine-putin-trump-bilateral-channel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bilateral channel<\/a>\u00a0to promote a settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, Lavrov said, adding that the Ukrainian crisis was discussed\u00a0<em>\u201cin a concrete, businesslike\u201d<\/em>\u00a0manner.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/395702-trump-putin-meeting-tremendous\/\">http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/395702-trump-putin-meeting-tremendous\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}