Reality check time: Trump said he would solve the Ukraine war on Day One, if not before. But any deal is months away, advisers warn The president-elect has begun to publicly lament how intractable the conflict is www.reuters.com/world/europe...

"The real legacy is you have expanded the United States. Literally in 70 years we haven't added one piece of real estate to the portfolio. He talks about it a lot." Our piece today on why Trump *really* wants Greenland www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Scoop: Trump's Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, has postponed his first post-election Kyiv trip, which was slated for early Jan, per sources Reason not immediately clear but it underlines how solving the conflict will be more time-intensive than Trump had planned Trip now expected after inauguration

New: Trump just filed another motion to delay sentencing in the New York hush money case, which is slated for Jan. 10, according to court document via @reuters.com

A bit of Greenland news in our latest Trump/foreign policy analysis:

#Trump spoke with Chancellor Olaf Scholz earlier on Thursday, per German govt spox via @reuters.com

Scoop: Trump's incoming Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, is planning a fact-finding trip to Kyiv, per sources He will visit several other European capitals, but the plan is to skip Moscow for now This is the first trip to Ukraine by an incoming Trump official

Assad told his presidential office manager on Saturday when he finished work he was going home but instead headed to the airport. He also called his media adviser, and asked her to come to his home to write him a speech. She arrived to find no one was there. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

NEW: Trump crypto venture partners with platform linked to Middle East militants Hamas and Hezbollah www.reuters.com/technology/t...

Scoop: William Evanina, formerly the nation's top counterintelligence official, has been interviewed for the deputy DNI job, according to two sources There are others in the running. He would make for a relatively conventional counterbalance to Gabbard

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy used his first meeting with Donald Trump since the US election to explain Ukraine's need for security guarantees in any negotiated end to the war with Russia, two sources familiar with the Dec. 7 discussions said reut.rs/3ZyqMn7

New: We got a readout of the Trump-Zelenskiy-Macron meeting over the weekend Trump pushed Zelenskiy to get to the negotiating table. Zelenskiy said he was open to talks - but preconditions were needed www.reuters.com/world/zelens...

NEW: Trump plans major reshaping of U.S. policies within hours of taking office www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

News: Kevin Guthrie, Florida's top emergency management official, is in the running to be Trump's FEMA director. He was interviewed by transition officials last week, per sources

Transition scooplet: Trump's State Department transition team is interviewing candidates for assistant secretary of state (A/S) and undersecretary positions Typically, most of these positions have gone to career foreign service officers. Trump is discontinuing this norm, per sources

New: Zelenskiy publicly floats freezing the prevailing battle lines in Ukraine, an approach favored by Trump advisers but unlikely to appeal to Putin, who wants all of the Donbas and two other Ukrainian regions he doesn't fully control www.reuters.com/world/europe...

New: Trump, Zelenskiy and Macron are currently meeting at Elysee Palace in Paris, per images divulged by aides First in-person meeting b/w Trump and Zelenskiy since election. Reuters reported earlier in the week that a tri-lateral was on the table

New: Representatives for Trump and Zelenskiy have discussed a meeting in Paris this weekend. If it comes together, will be last-minute and discreet Trilateral w/ Macron one possibility

SCOOP: Trump may cancel US Postal Service electric mail truck contract, sources say www.reuters.com/business/aut...