Trump compared it to hockey players.
“The referees let them go for a couple of seconds,” Trump said. “Let them go for a little while before you pull them apart.”
“Sometimes you see young children fighting like crazy. They hate each other and they’re fighting in a park,” Trump said. “You try to pull them apart and they don’t want to be pulled apart.”
“Sometimes you have to let them fight for a while,” Trump added.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/05/trump-russia-ukraine-fight-more/84051658007/