President Donald Trump And his administration will still have a busy week, because negotiations on ending the war in Russia-Ukraine will start.
This week Trump is sending a handful of American officials to Saudi Aarabia to start negotiating a potential peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, Fox News told on Sunday morning that he and national security adviser Mike Waltz will travel to Saudi Arabia on Sunday evening, while State Secretary Marco Rubio will also travel to Saudi -Arabia after his presence of the International Munich Safety Conference last week and meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday.
The meeting in Saudi Arabia is coming after Trump announced last Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin Easily to start “immediately” with peace talks.
“Next week there will be a meeting in Saudi Aarabia,” Trump told the media during a press conference on Thursday. ‘Not with myself nor President Putin, but with top officials. And Ukraine will also be part of it. And we’re going to see if we can end that war. That was a terrible war. It is a mean, bloody war.
Russia and Ukraine have been at war since February 2022, when Russia invaded his neighboring nation for the first time. During the campaign track 2024, Trump had said that he would end the war if he had re -elected, while he claimed it would never have begun if he had been in the Oval Office at that time.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump (Contributor | Rebecca Noble/Getty images)
Trump accused his team of American officials to hold the peace meetings in Saudi Arabia, Witkoff told Maria Bartiromo of Fox News on Sunday.
“I’m going tonight. I am going to travel there with the National Security Advisor, and we will keep meetings in the direction of the president. And hopefully we will make really good progress with with regard to Russia, Ukraine“Witkoff said.
Waltz, Ratcliffe, Rubio and Witkoff (Getty Images)
Stateside, Trump spent his weekend in Mar-A-Lago in Florida before he went to the Daytona 500, where fans burst into cheers when Air Force One flew over Daytona International Speedway. Trump is the first sitting president to attend two Daytona 500 races in Daytona International Speedway, who previously attended the 2020 race.
President Donald Trump shakes his hand with Nascar Hall of Fame driver Richard Petty on the Daytona 500 on February 16, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Trump’s schedule this week can also meet a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who asked for a visit to the President of the White House.
Trump told the media on Friday that he spoke with the British Prime Minister and that he accepted a request to meet each other in the White House.
“We are going to have a friendly meeting, very good. We have many good things going on. But he asked to come and visit me, and I just accepted the question” Said Trump.
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Trump said that the meeting would be kept ‘very quickly’, which suggests that it would happen next week or the next week. No details have been revealed that will focus on the coming meeting, although it will be on the heels of Trump and on Thursday a “mutual rate” plan announces that “fair and mutual” rates will impose on all major American trading partners.
“I decided to honesty about the trade that I will do charge a mutual rateWhich means that which countries charge the United States of America, we will no longer charge them. In other words, they charge us a tax or rate, and we bring them exactly the same tax or rate, very simple, “Trump said on the White house of the tariff plan.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (AP)
In the field of energy policyTrump founded the National Energy Dominance Council on Friday, which is expected to “unleash” energy independence.
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“We have more energy than any other country, and now we unleash it,” Trump said on Friday of the Oval Office when he signed an executive order that founded the Energy Council. “I call it liquid gold under our feet and we will use it.”
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council under the second Trump administration, gave an example that the council will work quickly to make American energy dominant, even with actions in this coming week.
“What I expect to see, sir, is already the following week action that people will shock about how good it is for Americans,” Hassett Trump said on Friday of the Oval Office.
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Trump’s fourth week at the office Already follows him 65 executive orders, including 26 on his first day in the office alone.
