President Donald Trump addressed escalating tensions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Friday, warning he has “had it” with the backlash because the U.S. works with Russian officers to dealer a peace deal within the ongoing warfare.
Trump argued Zelenskyy has “no playing cards” to barter leverage for a deal on “The Brian Kilmeade Show,” because the pair have publicly hurled insults at each other in latest days.
“I have been watching this man for years now as his cities get demolished, as his folks get killed, as his troopers get decimated,” Trump informed Brian Kilmeade.
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“I have been watching him negotiate with no playing cards. He has no playing cards, and also you get sick of it,” he continued. “You simply get sick of it, and I’ve had it.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President-elect Donald Trump on the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on Dec. 7, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu by way of Getty Photos)
Trump argued Zelenskyy is a poor negotiator, noting Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent traveled to Ukraine final week to dealer a mineral settlement, price lots of of billions of {dollars}, however stated the pair “could not even come shut” to a deal.
The president stated all the journey was harmful for Bessent, and a waste of time.
The deal would have facilitated U.S. funding within the war-torn nation and in addition supplied “the very best safety assure they may ever hope for,” in line with nationwide safety advisor Mike Waltz.
In the meantime, U.S. officers traveled to Saudi Arabia to debate a attainable peace cope with Russian counterparts, a gathering that Ukraine was not invited to.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Particular Envoy to the Center East Steve Witkoff and Waltz met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday with Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov and President Vladimir Putin’s international affairs advisor, Yuri Ushakov, to hash out methods to finish the battle.
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Zelenskyy informed reporters Tuesday in Turkey that “no person decides something behind our again,” after stressing in latest days that Kyiv won’t conform to a peace negotiation with out Ukraine’s enter.
“I get uninterested in listening to it,” Trump responded. “I’ve seen it sufficient, after which he complains that he is not at a gathering that we’re having with Saudi Arabia attempting to intermediate peace. Effectively, he is been at conferences for 3 years with a… president who did not know what the hell he was doing. He is been on the conferences for 3 years and nothing bought executed, so I do not suppose he is essential to be at conferences, to be sincere with you. He is been there for 3 years. He is he makes it very exhausting to make offers.”
U.S. officers even have met with Ukrainian officers a couple of peace deal. Particular Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg stated Wednesday in a put up on X that the U.S. stays dedicated to ending the warfare and discovering methods to determine “sustainable peace.”
Trump positioned blame for the warfare on then-President Biden’s incapacity to barter with Putin.
“Joe Biden is a really dumb man who was dumber than ever earlier than,” he stated. “He had no thought what he was doing, and every little thing he stated was incorrect. And I stated, you realize what… I feel he will trigger a warfare. And that is what occurred… Putin may have been talked out of that really easy, however they did not know learn how to speak… however [Biden] stated all of the incorrect issues — and I am not attempting to make Putin like nicer or higher — I am simply telling you the truth that warfare ought to have by no means occurred. Putin would have by no means gone in.”
Trump now says a peace deal between the international locations is barely attainable as a result of he’s again in workplace.
“They solely need to speak due to me,” Trump stated. “If I wasn’t concerned, they would not be speaking to one another, and Russia would proceed to… undergo Ukraine… They’ve taken a number of land, and Russia would proceed the march by Ukraine. If it wasn’t for me, they would not be speaking in any respect. I am the one purpose they’re speaking.”
“I have been watching this go on for years, and I am doing it for one purpose,” he stated. “I hate the killing. I hate to see these younger folks killed. They are not Individuals. They’re Russians and Ukrainians. I hate to see the killing.”
Fox Information’ Morgan Phillips and Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
