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Donald Trump says a gathering is being acceptable up betwixt himself and Vladimir Putin - and that helium and Barack Obama "probably" similar each other.
Republican US president-elect Mr Trump spoke to reporters astatine his Mar-a-Lago edifice successful Florida connected Thursday, saying Russian president Mr Putin "wants to meet, and we are mounting it up".
"He has said that adjacent publically and we person to get that warfare implicit with. That's a bloody mess," Mr Trump said.
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Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said connected Friday determination was a "mutual desire" to acceptable up a gathering - but added nary details had been confirmed yet and that determination whitethorn beryllium advancement erstwhile Mr Trump is inaugurated connected 20 January.
"Moscow has repeatedly declared its openness to contacts with planetary leaders, including the US president, including Donald Trump," Mr Peskov added.
"What is required is simply a communal tendency and governmental volition to behaviour dialog and resoluteness existing problems done dialogue. We spot that Mr Trump besides declares his readiness to resoluteness problems done dialogue. We invited this. There are inactive nary specifics, we proceed from the communal readiness for the meeting."
Trump connected Obama: 'We conscionable got along'
Mr Trump besides made immoderate lighter remarks regarding a viral speech betwixt himself and erstwhile Democrat President Barack Obama at Jimmy Carter's ceremonial connected Thursday.
The pair sat unneurotic for the precocious president's service successful Washington DC connected Thursday, and could beryllium seen speaking for respective minutes arsenic the remaining mourners filed successful earlier it began.
Mr Obama was seen nodding arsenic his successor spoke earlier breaking into a grin.
Asked astir the exchange, Mr Trump said: "I didn't realise however affable it looked.
"I said, 'boy, they look similar 2 radical that similar each other'. And we astir apt do.
"We person a small antithetic philosophies, right? But we astir apt do. I don't know. We conscionable got along. But I got on with conscionable astir everybody."
The amicable speech comes aft years of criticising each different successful the nationalist eye; it was Mr Trump who spread the alleged "birther" conspiracy theory astir Mr Obama successful 2011, falsely asserting that helium was not calved successful the United States.
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Insults continued for years, with Mr Obama famously dedicating overmuch of his final White House Correspondents' Dinner speech successful 2016 to jokes astatine his governmental rival's expense.
Mr Trump has repeatedly attacked the Obamas, saying the erstwhile president was "ineffective" and "terrible" and calling erstwhile archetypal woman Michelle Obama "nasty" arsenic precocious arsenic October past year.
On Kamala Harris's run way past year, Mr Obama said Mr Trump was a "78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining astir his problems since helium rode down his aureate escalator 9 years ago", portion the erstwhile archetypal woman said that "the consequences of him ever being president again are brutally serious."
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