US President Donald Trump said on Friday the BRICS group would end very quickly if they ever formed in a meaningful way.

The president also threatened new measures to increase economic pressure on Russia as he grows more frustrated with Putin.

During a press briefing, Leavitt stumbled when asked to account for the president’s paltry plan to impose tariffs on Russia. She’d previously claimed that U.S. sanctions “preclude any meaningful trade” between the two countries, as a means of explaining why Russia was exempt from the president’s sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs.