JUST IN: President Donald Trump said that he’d “canceled” an anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling reporters at the White House, “It just didn’t feel right to me.” full story ⤵️

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’d “canceled” an anticipated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling reporters at the White House, “It just didn’t feel right to me.”

“It didn’t feel like we were going to get to the place we have to get – so I canceled it, but we’ll do it in the future,” Trump told reporters gathered in the Oval Office.

Last week, Trump said he planned to meet with the Russian president in Budapest, Hungary, after the two men had a lengthy phone call that Trump described as “very productive.”

But CNN reported earlier this week that Trump’s hopes for a quick meeting with Putin had stalled out, with an administration official saying Tuesday there were “no plans” for a summit between the two “in the immediate future.”

Still, pressed Wednesday if he thinks the Russian president wants to end the ongoing war with Ukraine, Trump said, “I do.”

“I think they want peace, I think they both want peace,” Trump said. “At this point it’s been, you know, it’s almost four years. You’re going into four years. And if I were president, it never would have started. But, yeah, it’s time.”

In a follow up exchange, Trump acknowledged frustration at the slow pace of negotiations with Russia to end the war.

“Well, I think that in terms of honesty, the only thing I can say is, every time I speak with Vladimir [Putin], I have good conversations, and then they don’t go anywhere,” he said. “They just don’t go anywhere.”