US president Donald Trump says he gets along 'very, very well' with Vladimir Putin

Washington: US president Donald Trump said in an interview that he had a good meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin last week and that the two have a good relationship. [caption id=“attachment_3806975” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image of Donald Trump. AP[/caption] “People said, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t get along.’ Well, who are the people that are saying that? I think we get along very, very well,” Trump told evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “We are a tremendously powerful nuclear power, and so are they. It doesn’t make sense not to have some kind of a relationship,” Trump said. Earlier, Trump has said that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would have been happier if his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton had won last year’s general election, as this would have made America weak. In his first major interview after his last week’s maiden meeting with Putin in Hamburg, Germany, on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit, Trump said he and the Russian leader both are advocating interest of their respective countries. But there is scope for co-operation between the two at the global stage. “We are the most powerful country in the world and we are getting more and more powerful because I’m a big military person. As an example, if Hillary had won, our military would be decimated. Our energy would be much more expensive. That’s what Putin doesn’t like about me,” Trump said.