‘Those are stupid people’: Trump reportedly tried to calm Putin after he complained that White House officials were trying to stop them from speaking

donald trump phone call oval officeAssociated Press/Andrew Harnik

  • President Donald Trump reportedly sought to ease Russian President Vladimir Putin’s concerns that White House officials were trying to block a phone call between the two.
  • After Putin told Trump that White House advisers were trying to interfere, Trump reportedly called those advisers “stupid people,” and told Putin he “shouldn’t listen to them.”
  • The report emerged ahead of a scheduled NATO summit at Brussels on Tuesday. Trump is expected to participate in a one-on-one meeting with Putin in Finland next week.

During a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in March, President Donald Trump reportedly sought to ease Putin’s concerns that White House officials were trying to block a conversation between the two.

After Putin mentioned that White House officials were trying to interfere, a person with direct knowledge of the conversation said that Trump told to Putin, “Those are stupid people; you shouldn’t listen to them,” The New York Times reported Monday.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

NOW WATCH: North Korean defector: Kim Jong Un ‘is a terrorist’

See Also:

SEE ALSO: Trump reportedly gave out his personal cell phone number to world leaders and US officials ‘had no idea’ he was making calls

Post Author: martin

Martin is an enthusiastic programmer, a webdeveloper and a young entrepreneur. He is intereted into computers for a long time. In the age of 10 he has programmed his first website and since then he has been working on web technologies until now. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of BriefNews.eu and PCHealthBoost.info Online Magazines. His colleagues appreciate him as a passionate workhorse, a fan of new technologies, an eternal optimist and a dreamer, but especially the soul of the team for whom he can do anything in the world.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.