BREAKING: Trump says trilateral meeting with Putin, Zelensky 'will happen'

President Donald Trump has said that a trilateral meeting between the US, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "will happen," but suggested that it may take time.

During an interview with the Daily Caller's Reagan Reese, the president was asked, "Do you think a trilateral will still happen?"

"A tri would happen. A bi, I don’t know about, but a tri will happen," Trump responded. "But, you know, sometimes people aren’t ready for it. I say, I use the analogy. I’ve used it a couple of times. You have a child, and there’s another child in the lot, in the playground, and they hate each other, and they start swinging, swinging, and swinging, and you want them to stop, and they keep going."

"After a little while, they’re very happy to stop. Do you understand that? It’s almost that way. Sometimes they have to fight for a little bit before you can get them to stop. But this has been going on for a long time. A lot of people are dead," he added.

During the interview, Trump was also asked about America's role in the war. The president has already ruled out putting US troops on the ground in the region. Reese asked Trump, "Are you still considering with security guarantees, using US soldiers—"

Trump responded, "No," but Reese added to the question, "—and planes in the air, I mean, in the air."

"Maybe we’ll do something. Look, I’d like to see something get solved. They’re not our soldiers, but there are, five to 7,000, mostly young people being killed every single week. If I could stop that and have a plane flying around the air every once in a while, it’s going to be mostly the Europeans, but we, we’d help them. They, you know, they sort of need it, and we’d help them if we could get something done," the president said.