The two-week timeline for a Trump-Putin summit, announced by President Trump himself, has disappeared. On Tuesday, a US official confirmed there are “no plans” for a meeting in the “immediate future.”
The Kremlin also confirmed the change, stating there is “no precise timeframe” for a summit.
This is a direct reversal from last week, when Trump, after a call with Putin, posted on social media that a Budapest meeting was imminent.
Trump’s post triggered a “productive” phone call on Monday between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to discuss the logistics.
However, the anonymous US official said that after the call, no further in-person meeting between the diplomats was “necessary,” signaling a halt to the summit preparations.
