Social media skewered the president for finally admitting on Wednesday that ending the conflict is "more difficult than people would have any idea."

President Donald Trump conceded that his efforts to broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia to end their three-year war are proving much harder than he initially expected. During a news conference at the NATO summit in the Netherlands,

NATO is “not a rip-off,” the president adds at the end of the alliance’s summit, reversing past attacks on the organization.