Trump blasts Biden's handling of Ukraine, calls Zelensky 'the greatest salesman'
Donald Trump stated during a rally in North Carolina, "Biden and Kamala allowed this to happen by feeding Zelenskyy money and munitions like no country has ever seen before." Trump also announced that, in his opinion, due to U.S. support for Kyiv, "Ukraine is gone. It's not Ukraine anymore," and then mockingly called the Ukrainian president "the greatest salesman on Earth" once again.
- Biden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can’t get us out, - Donald Trump continued. - There is really nothing for the Ukrainian people to move back to. And it didn't need to happen. Those buildings are down. Those cities are gone. They're gone and we continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelensky, - said Trump during a rally in Mint Hill, North Carolina.
The former president stated that Biden could have allegedly made a deal with Vladimir Putin before his aggression, "there wouldn’t have been one person that died, and there wouldn’t have been one golden tower laying shattered on its side."
- An agreement could have been reached if we had a competent president, not a president who suffered from everything. Biden and Kamala allowed this to happen by feeding Zelensky money and munitions like no country has ever seen before, - said Trump, once again mockingly calling the Ukrainian president "the greatest salesman on Earth." - The country is in rubble, - he added.
- The president of Ukraine is in our country. He is making little nasty aspersions toward your favorite president, me, - said Donald Trump, addressing his supporters.
Zelensky criticized Trump
Trump's words on Wednesday were the harshest he has used to describe the war in Ukraine and to criticize both the current administration and the Ukrainian president. His remarks occurred on the day when, according to the original plans, Trump was supposed to meet with Zelensky in New York, but ultimately the meeting was canceled.
The cancellation of the meeting was partly due to the controversies caused by Zelensky's statements for "The New Yorker," where he criticized both Trump and his vice-presidential candidate, Senator JD Vance, calling him "too radical" in connection with the plan he presented to end the war in Ukraine by establishing a ceasefire along the current front lines. Zelensky also said that Trump "doesn't really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how."
