The former president launched into a largely nonsensical tirade on Thursday evening, even claiming Kyiv is covering up the true numbers of people killed by Russian missile strikes.
Donald Trump has claimed he could stop Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine “in 24 hours” and then spectacularly failed to explain just how he would do it.
Speaking on Thursday night during a town hall event on Fox News, the former president also said he “got along with Putin” and made bizarre comments about the current waves of Russian missile and drone attacks against Kyiv.
When asked about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he said: “I want to stop that war, I don’t want that war to continue.
“And I’ll stop that war, mark my words, I’ll stop that war in 24 hours.”
The event’s host Sean Hannity then interrupted to say: “Mr President, let me ask. Serious question. How do you stop that war in 24 hours?”
Instead of a straight answer, Trump then indulged in a rambling speech that contained lots of words, a liberal sprinkling of fantasy, but very little of any actual substance.
“I get along with [Zelensky], I get along with Putin. It would have been much easier to stop it before it started. Putin would have never done this; it would have been much easier. Right now, it’s a mess.
Avoiding the topic of how to stop the war in 24 hours, Trump switched to describing the recent Russian attacks against Ukraine’s capital.
“Right now, they’re hitting Kyiv, and they’re hitting all sorts of things that weren’t supposed to be hit, the country is being decimated.
“By the way, the deaths are far more than they’re reporting. When they say ‘nine apartment buildings got knocked down and two people got hurt’, no, no, hundreds of people died.
“The numbers are much different from what you’re being told.”
During the entire war, Ukraine has never claimed “nine apartment buildings got knocked down” and Ukrainian authorities have made no efforts to conceal the death tolls from Russian missile strikes as they grimly illustrate the horrific toll being wrought by the Kremlin.
There have been numerous instances of Russian missiles hitting residential buildings resulting in large death tolls such as the Dnipro strike in January that killed 46 people.
And as for the recent strikes that Trump was referring to, thanks in large part to US-supplied air defense systems, the only damage to buildings in the capital over the last month has been due to falling debris from intercepted missiles and drones.
Several people have been killed and injured but nowhere near the “hundreds” Trump is referring to.
Getting back on topic, Trump then outlined his grand plan for stopping the war.
“I will get them into a room, and I know an exact way. You tell one ‘you’re not going to get anything unless you make a deal.’ You tell the other one ‘they’re going to get a lot unless you make a deal.’
“And you just sit them, and you put them, and you have to make a determination.”
Although Trump did not say which one was which, his comments appear to suggest he would force Ukraine to accept the loss of territories illegally occupied and annexed by Russian forces with the threat of rewarding President Putin with even more if they refuse to accept his offer.
“And I’m telling you, within 24 hours that whole thing will be settled,” he added.
Despite suggesting he would pander to the imperialist ambitions of Russia, Trump ended his rant by highlighting just one of the countless horrors Putin has inflicted upon Ukraine.
“It’s a horrible war,” he said. “It’s a vicious, vicious… I saw it today where missiles were going into cities, in this case, Kyiv, and you see the schoolchildren going to school and the missiles are following them.
“The whole thing is horrible. I will have that thing settled in 24 hours.”
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/17809
“Instead of a straight answer, Trump then indulged in a rambling speech that contained lots of words, a liberal sprinkling of fantasy, but very little of any actual substance.”
Trump is full of shit, and a Putin apologist, his “make russia great again” campaign will fail spectacularly. Let’s hope someone with at least half a brain gets elected as the GOP candidate next year.
On Aug 5, 2022, Robert Wood Johnson (“Woody”), Trump’s friend and former ambassador to the UK), wrote in the Telegraph:
“Britain and America must save Europe from humanitarian disaster
For decades, our two countries have come to the aid of humanity in its darkest hours. We must do so again.”
He concluded with :
“In these dark days I am reminded of a signal moment in history when the United States and the United Kingdom joined forces to help a people suffering at the hands of Russian aggression. In 1948 and 1949, our nations airlifted 2.3 million tons of food, fuel, and supplies to West Berlin, defying a Soviet blockade of the city. Just as Britons and Americans came to the rescue then, so we must continue to do so now. The Ukrainian people are depending on us.”
DT : Robert Wood Johnson was the US ambassador to the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2021.
Yesterday the same man gave a puke-inducing interview to Nick Ferrari, taking an “even-handed” approach that was so neutral it was pro-putler. So what happened to this guy who went from being a pro-Ukraine humanitarian to just another filthy Trump shill?
Johnson btw, has a Ukrainian wife.
LBC interview with Ferrari:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/trump-bloodshed-ukraine-was/
I hope Mike will bring the GOP base to their senses.
What policies of Trump, did you not like when in Office?
You tell me how Trump will stop this war in 24 hours, without giving Ukraine to his buddy Putin.
Do you remember it was Biden who removed the Trump sanctions on the Russian pipeline, NS, in 2021, so Putin could finance his war with Ukraine.
Everyone in the world criticized him for those sanctions preventing countries from getting oil/gas. Biden not only removed them for Putin, he then even purchased oil from Putin, till he got caught.
“he then even purchased oil from Putin”
You posted that claim before, and I pointed out it was a lie from Faux News. (They interviewed right-wing Republican John Catsimatidis, but in their interview he doesn’t even mention Biden. You can see the interview, and the false claim in the article, here:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/energy/biden-russian-putin-oil-billionaire-ceo )
Trump bombed the Russian base in Syria, and told Putin he would bomb Moscow if he invaded Ukraine.
Buddy Biden made the deals with Russia.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/17/hunter-bidens-real-estate-firm-received-over-100m-from-russian-oligarch/
https://nypost.com/2023/05/19/hunter-bidens-russian-associates-dodge-more-us-sanctions/
Trump also said Crimea is Russian, because they speak Russian. I have no love for Biden either, being English I’m proud our leader is the one at the front of Ukrainian support.
Trump and Melania support Ukraine
I am suprised and happy he does . He is much better than I thought and appears to have a very good relationship with Zelenskyy too.
Slava Uk/Slava Urkaini.
“Several people have been killed and injured but nowhere near the “hundreds” Trump is referring to.”
If Ukraine claimed hundreds killed, the orange baboon would claim that Ukraine is overdoing it to help protect his little gangster and butt boy, putler. In many other aspects, no matter what Ukraine does, it’s wrong, no matter what mafia land does, it’s not so bad.
I am trying to figure out who is more devorced from reality; Trump or Putin?
Somebody help me out.
Both.
But it took Russian Biden 3 months to give us weapons, only after Putlicker was surrounding Kyiv.
Zelenskyy, “I don’t need a free ride, I need Ammo/Weapons”””
https://censor.net/ua/video_news/3422288/alpinistka_samoyilova_zdiyimaye_prapor_ukrayiny_na_vershyni_everestu_video
Ukrainian climber Antonina Samoilova raised the flag of Ukraine on top of Everest, for the second time conquering the highest mountain in the world.
Слава Україні! Героям слава!💙💛