President Trump reveals how Russian leader 'talks nice, then bombs everybody' as the U.S. prepares to send Ukraine Patriot missiles under a NATO agreement.

But his frustration with Putin has grown. Last week, the president said the United States was taking “a lot of bullshit” from Putin. Today, he authorized a significant shipment of U.S. defensive weapons to Ukraine via NATO and threatened Russia with new tariffs if the war does not end in 50 days.

That included a Monday joint statement from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal calling Trump’s threat of ramped-up economic penalties if Russia doesn’t cut a peace deal in next 50 days “a real executive hammer to drive the parties to the negotiating table.”

President Donald Trump appears to have finally realized that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, famed for rigging elections and knocking off opponents, cannot be trusted. “Putin really surprised a lot of people.

Vladimir Putin’s conduct has prompted Donald Trump’s shift as Russia’s war effort in Ukraine has gotten only more aggressive.

The President had a decade-long bromance with his Russian counterpart and is thankfully changing tack, writes Michael McFaul.

For a long time, my expectations of Donald Trump have been that he will be worse than I think, just never in the way that I think. Say what you will about the man, he is full of surprises. I assumed he’d make the country dumber,