President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would call himself into action as the closer, should Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy near a peace deal.

He made his comments as administration officials and European leaders fanned out after a White House summit on Monday to explain the next steps in the Ukraine-Russia peace process, including how to decide about possible deal-breaking territory swaps.

What has emerged is an accelerated process that American and European leaders say will require Putin and Zelenskyy — archnemeses — to reach common ground on several thorny issues.

“We’ll see what happens there,” Trump told Fox News on Tuesday morning. “And then if that works out … I’ll go to the trilat and close it up.

“I hope President Putin is going

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