April 29, 2025
President Donald Trump sat down with ABC News’ Terry Moran in the Oval Office.
By ABC NEWS
April 29, 2025
TERRY MORAN: It’s contested. Ukraine. I want to turn — I was just in Rome, and to that moving photograph of you and President Zelenskyy sitting in St. Peter’s Basilica —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah.
TERRY MORAN: — talking peace. It went around the world.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Sure.
TERRY MORAN: Take us into that moment.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, look, the Ukraine is a very serious, very tough situation. And this is Biden’s war. This is not my war. But I want to see if I can solve it, because probably close to 5,000 young soldiers a week are being killed, Russian and Ukrainian. We also spend a tremendous amount of money in Ukraine, and Europe should be spending much more than us. They’re not. They’re spending much less. It’s been badly handled by the Biden administration. It’s been badly handled all the way around, all the way around —
TERRY MORAN: But that — that moment.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The moment was a moment of solace in a sense, because — tremendous numbers of people are dying. A lot of his people are dying. They’re being killed. And I feel very badly about it. I feel very badly about — that’s a war that would have never happened if I were president, and it didn’t happen for four years. It was never even a thought of it happening.
TERRY MORAN: It — it does feel like something’s happening. After that meeting with Zelenskyy in St. Peter’s, you posted this on social media. “There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, in cities and towns, over the last few days. It makes me think that maybe” —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Yeah, well, that was part of my post. But you’re right. That was — that was part of a post, yes —
TERRY MORAN: And it says, “It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war. He’s just tapping me along–“
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It’s possible. Yeah, that’s possible. Sure.
TERRY MORAN: “He might be –“
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: He could be tapping me along a little bit. I would say that he would like to stop the war. I think that —
TERRY MORAN: You believe that?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: — if — if it weren’t for me, I think he’d want to take over the whole country, personally. I always felt — so when I left, there wasn’t even a chance that this would happen. When Biden got involved, I won’t say whether or not he handled it properly, but obviously it wasn’t good, because the war started.
Putin went in. The war started. I believe that Putin wanted to get all of Ukraine once he went in. And I think part of the reason he went in is he saw what happened in Afghanistan, how incompetent — how incompetently Milley and all these guys handled that. It was one of the greatest embarrassments of — of our lifetimes but maybe in the history of our country. Okay. So Putin went in. I think Putin wanted all of Ukraine.
TERRY MORAN: Right.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think if I didn’t win the election, he would have gotten all of Ukraine. I think he would have taken all of Ukraine.
TERRY MORAN: From —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think his first choice — never with me. He would have never gone in. With this group of losers, he went in. He saw what happened in Afghanistan. He said, “Wow, this is my chance,” because it was always the apple of his eye. I talked to him. Ukraine was the apple of his eye. I think he wanted the whole country.
TERRY MORAN: You’ve said for months that —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And because of me, I do believe that —
TERRY MORAN: Yeah. Yeah.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: — he’s willing to stop the fighting. Don’t forget —
TERRY MORAN: You think he wants peace?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: — this is —
TERRY MORAN: You think Vladimir Putin wants peace?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think he does, yes. I think he does–
TERRY MORAN: Still?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think because of me —
TERRY MORAN: Even with the raining missiles on —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think he really — his — his — his dream was to take over the whole country. I think because of me, he’s not gonna do that.
TERRY MORAN: Do you trust him?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I think —
TERRY MORAN: Do you trust him?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t trust you. I don’t trust — I don’t trust a lot of people. I don’t trust you. Look at you. You come in all shootin’ for bear. You’re so happy to do the interview.
TERRY MORAN: I am happy —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And then you start hitting me with fake questions. You start tellin’ me that a guy — whose hand is covered with a tattoo —
TERRY MORAN: Alright. We’re back to that.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: — doesn’t have the tattoo, you know.
TERRY MORAN: Alright.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I mean, you’re being dishonest.
TERRY MORAN: No, I’m not —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Let — let– let me just tell you —
TERRY MORAN: No, I am not, sir.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Do I trust — I don’t trust a lot of people. But I do think this. I think that he — let’s say he respects me. And I believe because of me he’s not gonna take over the whole — but his decision, his choice would be to take over all of Ukraine.
TERRY MORAN: Okay.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: It’s a war that never should have happened. It did happen because of incompetent people —
TERRY MORAN: Last question on this.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: But it never should have happened.
TERRY MORAN: If there’s no peace deal, will the U.S. cut off military aid to Ukraine?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I don’t want to tell you that. I’m not gonna tell you whether or not I would or not —
TERRY MORAN: That sounds —
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I want to leave that as a big, fat secret, because I don’t want to ruin a negotiation. But —
TERRY MORAN: I’d be worried if I were Ukraine.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: — I will tell you I was not happy when I saw Putin shooting missiles into a few towns and cities. And — that was not something that I liked seeing, and I thought it was inappropriate. But I think the whole war is inappropriate.
TERRY MORAN: Okay.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Again, it’s a war that shouldn’t have happened. This war is a war that if the election weren’t rigged — and it was totally rigged, the 2020 election — if it weren’t rigged, you wouldn’t have that. You wouldn’t have had the embarrassment —
TERRY MORAN: Okay.
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Entire interview can be seen here :
More drivel :
“I’m not a big fan.”
Of course he means Zel, not his controller.
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