Critics slammed President Donald Trump on Sunday after a major new retreat on one among his greatest marketing campaign guarantees: ending the conflict in Ukraine.
Trump vowed repeatedly that he would put a cease to the preventing on and even earlier than his first day in workplace.
However with the conflict nonetheless raging ― and Russia launching an enormous new assault on Ukraine over the weekend ― the president on Sunday fired off a message on social media blaming everybody else.
“I’ve all the time had an excellent relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, however one thing has occurred to him. He has gone completely CRAZY!” Trump wrote on his Fact Social web site, blaming Putin for “needlessly killing lots of people.”
“I’ve all the time stated that he desires ALL of Ukraine, not only a piece of it, and possibly that’s proving to be proper, but when he does, it should result in the downfall of Russia!” Trump warned.
He additionally slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former U.S. President Joe Biden.
“President Zelenskyy is doing his Nation no favors by speaking the way in which he does. All the things out of his mouth causes issues, I don’t prefer it, and it higher cease,” he stated. “That is Zelenskyy’s, Putin’s, and Biden’s Conflict, not ‘Trump’s,’ I’m solely serving to to place out the large and ugly fires, which were began via Gross Incompetence and Hatred.”
Trump additionally railed in opposition to Putin when he spoke with reporters on his means again to the White Home on Sunday night.
“I’m not proud of what Putin’s doing. He’s killing lots of people and I don’t know what the hell occurred to Putin,” he stated. “We’re in the course of speaking and he’s taking pictures rockets into Kyiv and different cities. I don’t prefer it in any respect. I’m stunned, I’m very stunned.”
Through the marketing campaign, Trump claimed he would finish the conflict instantly on taking workplace ― and maybe even earlier.
“I might repair that inside 24 hours, and if I win, earlier than I get into the workplace, I’ll have that conflict settled,” Trump stated in 2023. “100% positive.”
He walked that again after successful the election.
“I hope to have six months,” Trump informed reporters at a information convention in January, earlier than taking workplace. “I hope lengthy earlier than six months.”
Trump’s critics hit again at his newest message on the conflict ― and reminded him of his promise to finish it: