U.S. President Donald Trump was caught on live camera making an intriguing remark inside the Oval Office and now, a professional lip reader claims to have decoded his exact words.
The video, filmed just moments before Trump met with Republican senators amid the ongoing government shutdown, shows him signing a few documents before leaning toward the camera and speaking to someone off-screen, reportedly a staff member.
According to lip reader Nicola Hickling, who spoke exclusively with Daily Express U.S., Trump appeared to say:
“I am talking to you right, you listen to me.”
Hickling adds that he seemed to follow up with,
“That’s why. This one is not a condition, it’s a warning,”
before stepping out of frame.
The clip quickly spread online, drawing comparisons to another recent viral moment involving Trump and former First Lady Melania Trump. Earlier reports suggested a tense exchange between the couple aboard Marine One, where a separate lip reading suggested Trump muttered a frustrated three-word comment at Melania during a heated moment.
Meanwhile, the Oval Office incident came as Trump’s team canceled a planned summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents in Europe. Sources close to the White House say the meeting was scrapped after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, concluding that Washington and Moscow had “divergent expectations” about ending the Ukraine war.
A White House official later confirmed to The Independent that there are currently “no plans” for an in-person Trump-Putin meeting, noting that a recent diplomatic call had been “productive enough” to make a face-to-face meeting unnecessary.
Trump had earlier suggested the leaders might meet in Budapest, Hungary, following his talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about a potential arms-exchange deal involving Tomahawk missiles and Ukrainian drones. Reports indicate Putin was strongly opposed to the idea, fearing Ukraine’s growing long-range capabilities.
The possible Budapest meeting faced serious complications due to the European Union’s airspace ban on Russian aircraft. Poland even warned it would arrest Putin and hand him over to the International Criminal Court if he attempted to travel through its airspace a move that highlighted growing global pressure on the Kremlin.
While Hungary’s leader Viktor Orbán remains one of Putin’s closest allies, even his government faces limits in navigating the ICC controversy.
As the Ukraine-Russia conflict approaches its fourth anniversary, Lavrov reiterated that “Russia will not agree to a ceasefire until the root causes of the conflict are resolved.” His deputy, Sergey Ryabkov, however, later clarified that no official summit had been scheduled yet, saying, “You can’t postpone something that was never agreed upon.”
This latest Oval Office moment adds to a growing list of incidents where Trump’s off-mic comments have drawn public fascination from his candid exchanges with staff to his tense interactions with world leaders.
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