Posted on 05/25/2025 3:49:01 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Donald Trump lashed out at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for continuing to attack Ukraine while talks are ongoing between the two countries to find an end to the conflict.
Speaking to reporters on the tarmac at Morristown, New Jersey before he boarded Air Force One and returned to Washington, D.C., Trump spoke about a range of topics as he fielded questions ranging from tariffs to manufacturing goals to Russia and Ukraine peace talks.
"I'm not happy with what Putin is doing," Trump said. "He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin. I've known him a long time. Always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all."
"We're in the middle of talking, and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities. I don't like it at all," he said, adding, "I don't like what Putin is doing, not even a little bit. He's killing people. Something happened to this guy, and I don't like it."
When asked if he had any comment on news that Putin was almost caught in the middle of a drone attack from Ukraine, Trump suggested "maybe that would be a reason" for Putin's supposed change of character, but stressed "I don't know. I have not heard that."
Later, when asked a follow-up about talks with Putin, Trump said he would "absolutely" consider applying tariffs against Russia to force progress in peace talks, again saying, "He's killing a lot of people, I don't know what's wrong with him. What the hell happened to him, right? He's killing a lot of people, I'm not happy with that."
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only half the story....
The assassination attempt did not get into western media.
But probably far more important, he has to make noises like this or he could lose Lindsey Graham’s budget vote. And others. He will walk a fine line until that vote is through.
Doncha know Putin wants all of Ukraine and won’t stop until he gets it.
He's being as he's always been. I'm no fan of Zelenskyyyyyy, but Trump expressing surprise at Putin behaving like Putin is embarrassing.
Genocidal Nazism has returned to Europe and this time it comes from Moscow.
Putin and Zelenskyy are both scorpions doing scorpion things.
No joke, Zelvis just tried to shoot down helicopter Putin was riding in. You step on a snake, get ready for a vicious bite with fangs.
Exactly. Not my war. They are Europe's problem.
Oh, Oh, President Trump better cool his jets. Putin is the only person in the whole wide world popular enough in these parts to fix President Trump’s little red wagon!
WTF modes that mean?
Ah, give him a break: he was busy “fending off” drone attacks in his helicopter, dontchaknow. 😏
Putin was killing civilians before anyone ever took a potshots at him, so he has it coming. It will be well deserved, but it would be more just if he was strung up on a lamp post.
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