Trump Short-Circuits When Asked if U.S. Policy Is Aligning With Russia
Donald Trump blatantly refused to answer the question.
Donald Trump buffered while trying desperately to talk around a direct question Monday about aligning U.S. foreign policy with Russian President Vladimir Putinâs designs for Ukraine.Â
During a press conference, Trump was asked whether he was âconsidering canceling military aid to Ukraineâ after his disastrous meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Friday.Â
Trump and Vice President JD Vance put on an outrageous display berating the wartime president for failing to prostrate before them as they demanded he pay the U.S. back for aid, imploding negotiations with Ukraine to the delight of the Kremlin. Â
The president was also asked to respond to concerns that he was moving the âU.S. worldview in alignment with Moscow.â
In response, Trump rattled off a list of everything that âwould have never happenedâ if heâd won the presidential election four years ago.Â
Trumpâs nonanswer, which veered further and further off-topic, included the October 7 massacre, âIsrael,â inflation, the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, and China possessing the Bagram Air Base (the Taliban has denied that China controls the former U.S. base). Finally, he circled back to Ukraineâbut only to complain, not to actually answer the question.Â
âI wanna see it end fast. I donât want to see this go on for years and years. Now, President Zelenskiy supposedly made a statement today in APâIâm not a big fan of AP, so maybe it was an incorrect statementâbut he said he thinks the war is gonna go on for a long time, uh and he better not be right about that, thatâs all Iâm saying,â Trump said.
Zelenskiy was quoted Monday saying that peace with Russia âis still very, very far away,â following his talk with the U.S. president. Trump called the quote âthe worst statement that could have been made,â in a post on Truth Social.
Trump was also asked whether Americans should be disturbed that Kremlin officials said his foreign policy was âlargely in lineâ with Russiaâs vision.
âWell, Iâll tell you what, I think it takes two to tango,â Trump replied. âAnd youâre gonna have to make a deal with Russia, and youâre gonna have to make a deal with Ukraine. Youâre gonna have to have the, uhhhh, assent and youâre gonna have to have the consent from the European nations, âcause I think thatâs importantâand from us. I think everybody has to get into a room, so to speak, and we have to make a deal. And the deal could be made very fast. It should not be that hard a deal to make. It could be made very fast.âÂ
Trump previously claimed that he could resolve the war within 24 hours of entering the White House.Â
Then the president pivoted to continue whining about Zelenskiy: âNow maybe somebody doesnât want to make a deal, and if somebody doesnât want to make a deal, I think that person wonât be around very long. That person will not be listened to very long. Because I believe that Russia wants to make a deal. I believe certainly the people of Ukraine want to make a dealâtheyâve suffered more than anybody else. We talk about suffering, they suffered.â
âBut if you think about it, under President Bush they got Georgia, right? Russia got Georgia. Under President Obama they got a nice big submarine base, a nice big chunk of land where they have their submarines. You know that, right? Crimea,â Trump said, inhaling heavily.Â
Itâs worth remembering that Trump had been a cheerleader for Putin following Russiaâs invasion of Crimea in 2014, claiming that Crimeans âwould rather be with Russia.âÂ
âUnder President Trump they got nothing. And under President OâBiden they tried to get the whole thing,â Trump said, garbling his predecessorâs name. âThey tried to get the whole big, uh, big Ukraine. The whole thing. If I didnât get in here, they would have gotten the whole thing.â
Trumpâs support for the foreign dictator emboldened Russia, and his lack of support for Zelenskiy weakened the country, making way for Russia to launch its ground offensive in 2022.
With Trump in office, Russia wouldnât walk away empty-handed.Â
The White House instructed the State and Treasury departments Monday to draft a plan lifting U.S. sanctions on Russian individuals and entities, including oligarchs, who Trump recently claimed âare very nice people.â It wasnât immediately clear what the U.S. would receive in return for sanctions relief. And earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suggested that Kyiv should abandon hopes of restoring its illegally seized territory from Russia.
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