What does President Donald Trump hope to get from meeting with his long-time crush, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, on Friday about a supposed peace negotiation to end Russia’s war on Ukraine?

When asked by Fox News aboard Air Force One, Trump offered up this semi-coherent fairytale about the state of the U.S.

“I think we're going to do very well. Our country is doing very well. We're setting records economically like we never have before, including the stock markets are all at a record high. We're taking in trillions and trillions of dollars with tariffs. We're going for a meeting with President Putin in Alaska. And I think it's going to work out very well,” he said. “And if it doesn't, I’m gonna head back home real fast.”

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