There are no plans for President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet “in the immediate future,” a White House official said on Tuesday — calling off a summit that was expected in Hungary in the coming weeks.
Trump announced on Thursday that he and Putin planned to meet again, and predicted it would occur “within two weeks or so.”
First, he said, discussions would take place among senior advisers on both sides.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, held a phone call on Monday. It’s not expected the two will meet in person at this point.
“Secretary Rubio and Foreign Minister Lavrov had a productive call. Therefore, an additional in person meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister is not necessary, and there are no plans for President Trump to meet with President Putin in the immediate future,” the White House official said.
President Donald Trump in Washington, Oct. 10, 2025 and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Oct. 16, 2025.
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Earlier on Tuesday, the Kremlin downplayed a potential in person meet between Trump and Putin. The Kremlin said there was never a date set for a Trump-Putin summit.
“You can’t postpone what was not scheduled,” a Putin spokesman said.
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