President Donald Trump said Thursday that “[t]hings will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia.”
“At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!” Trump continued, in a tweet.
Things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia. At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2017
It was an optimistic reading of the situation a day after Trump said, “Right now we’re not getting along with Russia at all. We may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with Russia.”
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaking alongside Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, said that relations between the two countries were at “a low point.”
Tillerson said last Thursday, in the wake of alleged gas attack from the Syrian regime, that Russia was either “complicit or simply incompetent,” because the country had pledged after a 2013 gas attack to rid Syria of chemical weapons.
During the presidential campaign, Trump pledged to mend relations with Russia, especially over what he described as the shared goal of combatting religious extremism. FBI Director James Comey confirmed in March that his agency was investigating possible ties between members of Trump’s campaign and Russia.
