Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met more than three times at the G-20 summit, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"They might have met even much more than just three times," he told NBC News in an interview released Friday. He joked, "Maybe they went to the toilet together."
During a social dinner, Putin and Trump sat close to each other and conversed. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the presidents talked adoption, which Russia banned to the U.S. in 2012.
When asked if the two had talked elsewhere, Lavrov added: "When you are bought by your parents to a kindergarten, do you mix with the people who are waiting in the same room to start going to a classroom?"
He did attempt to downplay Trump and Putin's talk, saying, "After the dinner was over . . . I was not there . . . President Trump apparently went to pick up his wife and spent some minutes with President Putin, so what?"
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