A hot microphone picked up President Donald Trump making whispered, off-the-cuff remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin to French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday.

The Daily Mail reported that Trump appeared to be trying to assure Macron that Putin was indeed interested in making peace with Ukraine.

“I think he wants to make a deal,” Trump said to Macron in the East Room of the White House. “I think he wants to make a deal for me. Do you understand that? As crazy as it sounds.”

Macron, though, appeared to be skeptical that Putin really wants to end the war, which has gone on for more than three years following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The two men were speaking before a Trump-led, high-stakes meeting of the heads of European nations and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelen

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