TRUMP: ‘I MAY SAY, LOTS OF LUCK. KEEP FIGHTING’: President Donald Trump said his only role in meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska this week is to evaluate whether what Putin has to offer is a good deal or a bad deal, and report back to the relevant parties, including Ukraine and America’s European allies.

“I’m going to meet with President Putin. And we’re going to see what he has in mind. And if it’s a fair deal, I’ll reveal it to the European Union leaders, and to the NATO leaders, and also to President Zelensky. I think out of respect, I’ll call him first. And then I’ll call them after. And I may say, lots of luck. Keep fighting. Or I may say, we can make a deal,” Trump said at a White House news conference yesterday. “And I’m going to tell them what kind of a deal. I’m not going to make a deal. It’s not up to me to make a deal.”