President Donald Trump appeared to admit that his big summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the country’s war in Ukraine was a flop after he failed to secure a ceasefire—or much of anything but presidential pleasantries.

Trump sat down for an Oval Office interview with reporter Reagan Reese of the conservative-slanted Daily Caller Friday. Addressing the challenges he has had brokering peace between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump prefaced that he “inherited this war.”

Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 during former President Biden’s term.

“We’re talking about a lot of lives. We’re not talking about something that I started,” Trump said. “I inherited this war. And all I’m trying to do is put out the flame, you know. And I

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