He told this to reporters at the White House on Thursday, as quoted by CNN.He believes Vladimir Putin wants peace in Ukraine and will not “mess around” at the August 15 summit in Alaska.“We’re gonna find out where everybody stands. And I’ll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes or five minutes… whether or not we’re going to have a good meeting or a bad,” Trump told reporters.“And if it’s a bad meeting, it’ll end very quickly. And if it’s a good meeting, we’re going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future,” he added.Trump has long claimed that Vladimir Putin would not have launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 if he had been president, and on Thursday said the war “should have never happened.”“If I weren’t president, in my opinion, he would much rather take over all of Ukraine. But I am president, and he’s not going to mess around with me,” Trump said.On August 14, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that Vladimir Putin will arrive at the Alaska summit intending to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine.The Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is preparing “geographical maps” for a meeting with the U.S. president, which he believes should prove to Donald Trump that Ukraine is an “artificial state.”