Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that, in spite of heightened tensions with the U.S., he may be able to work with President Joe Biden in part because he’s more predictable than Donald Trump.
"That’s a different kind of person and it is my great hope that, yes, there are some advantages, some disadvantages, but there will not be any impulse-based movements, on behalf of the sitting U.S. president,” Putin said in an interview with NBC News conducted in Moscow before the two leaders’ first meeting since Biden took office in January.
Putin offered praise for Trump, whom he described as "an extraordinary individual, talented individual, otherwise he would not have become U.S. president.” Trump, he added, "is a colorful individual. You may like him or not. And, but he didn’t come from the U.S. establishment, he had not been part of big time politics before, and some like it some don’t like it but that is a fact.”