T he White House on Thursday afternoon said President Donald Trump is "open" to meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin, after a White House official earlier in the day said Putin also would have to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

President Donald Trump is open to holding a trilateral summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a White House official said on Saturday.

By speaking a language Trump understands — the language of real estate — Putin secured something he had been seeking ever since January: a one-on-one meeting with the U.S. leader, without Zelenskyy present,