Went into Ukraine.
How do you say that? And then you also said that if you're president you can end this very quickly. I'd say
if I'm
president, and by the way this is a much worse position than before it started. Before it started it was easy. He wasn't going to do it and I had conversations
And it was always the apple of his eye. I mean, I could see that. But I said, you're not going to do it. And if you do it, we're going to have problems like you've never had before. He understood. I said things, he said, you don't mean that. I said, I mean it 100%. And he didn't totally believe me, but he believed me 10 percent, and that's all he had to do.
He knew that there was going to be a problem. And President Xi...
Wait, wait. You're implying something here. You basically said I'd obliterate you. Is that what you said to him? I said things that were very bad, very nasty.
And... Kind of like what... And,
you know, honestly,
I got a hold of it. And he said, you don't mean that. Had to do with Moscow. I said, he said, You don't mean that. I said, I do. I'll never talk about it again, but I do. He said, you don't mean it. You don't mean it. And we then went on to other subjects.
But I don't think he believed me, but he believed me 10 percent. That's all he had to believe me. 5 percent would be good enough. But I had the same conversation with President Xi about Taiwan, President Xi of China,
I said...