Trump tells Putin to make Ukraine deal 'now' or face tougher sanctions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : "Trump has also said he expects to meet Putin -- with whom he had a summit in his first term in Helsinki -- soon.
64% : Putin congratulated Trump on his inauguration for a second term on Monday.
61% : Trump said he was "not looking to hurt Russia" and had "always had a very good relationship with President Putin," a leader for whom he has expressed admiration in the past.
46% : Trump has repeatedly praised Putin, whose hyper-masculine style and professed attachment to traditional values has increasingly found favor among some US Christian conservatives.
40% : Prior to beginning his new inauguration on Monday, Trump had vowed to end the Ukraine war "within 24 hours" and before even taking office, raising expectations he would leverage aid to force Kyiv to make territorial concessions to Moscow.
40% : "Trump added that Zelensky had told him he wanted a peace agreement to end the war.
35% : But Trump -- a billionaire tycoon famed for his book "The Art of the Deal" -- and his administration reportedly believe there are ways of toughening measures to press Putin.
24% : "If we don't make a 'deal,' and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries," Trump said.
23% : During a White House press conference on Tuesday Trump said only that it "sounds likely" that he would apply additional sanctions if Putin did not come to the table.
20% : In unusually critical remarks of Putin on Monday, Trump said the Russian president was "destroying Russia by not making a deal.

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