Donald Trump on Ukraine: 'I Know Exactly What I'm Doing'
By: Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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President Donald Trump reassured members of the press corps on Friday, telling them that when it comes to the war in Ukraine, he's on it.
This month, Trump met separately with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid Russia's ongoing war of aggression. Last Friday, Trump hosted Putin in Alaska, where the two spoke privately about a possible end to the war before Trump publicly declared, "We didn't get there." Nonetheless, Trump said he remains optimistic. On Monday, he hosted Zelensky and other European leaders at the White House in what was a much more cordial affair than February's meeting between the two leaders.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, the president, who was wearing a hat that read "Trump Was Right About Everything," said he will know what he wants to do in two weeks.
"I'm gonna make a decision as to what we do," the president said. "And it's gonna be it's going to be a very important decision. And that's whether or not it's massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both. Or do we do nothing and say, It's your fight'?"
CNN White House reporter Alayna Treene asked, "Are you saying that's a real possibility, then, that you do nothing if Putin doesn't come to the table for a ceasefire?
"I'll see whose fault it is," the president responded. "If there are reasons why, I'll understand that. I know exactly what I'm doing. We're gonna see whether or not they have a meeting. That'll be interesting to see. And if they don't, why didn't they have a meeting? Because I told them to have a meeting. But I'll know in two weeks what I'm gonna do."
Trump has said he wants Putin and Zelensky to meet to try to forge a resolution.
He knows what he's doing allright. Nothing.
The mythical result in "two weeks" has returned to his vocabulary.
Putin and Zelensky don't want to end this war and there is nothing Trump can do to fix it.
There are some situations where a deal cannot be made. Putin is insane and can't be reasoned with.
At some point soon, Trump will have decided to move on, having done all he could do.
Trump has done about as much to try and end this war as you or I could have done.
Trump does not have a clue how to end this war except to throw Ukraine under the bus.
He is so over-the-top full of shit. He continues to claim that this war would have never happened if he were PotUS, that he would end it on day one, yet he still has not been able even to negotiate a stable cease-fire.
What more does anyone need to recognize an incompetent who is full of shit?
All he is doing is hoping for the best. He wants credit for no risk.
Russia has said in the past few days that they dont want to negotiate with Zelensky. They are trying to force Ukraine to get rid of Zelensky and put a puppet in there.
This may be finally dawning on Trump.
5 or 6 "Bonafide" windmills in the State of New Jersey and the POTUS is screaming about how they KILLED New Jersey energy rates and his sycophants ignore that "lie" and try to shoot any messengers who disagree with facts.
Meanwhile Texas wind farms create so much excess that they have to be turned off due to a lack of storage and connectivity to East Texas where the consumption between DFW and Houston is growing every day
Another member, claims that killing the $7500.00 EV rebate doesn't increase the cost of the vehicle. Duh? Do the math, don't listen to Trumpian mathimitucians, they are frauds.
I am finishing the third and final solar project on my home, because there is a $12,000 tax break which Trump is ending 12/31/2025. Do the math.
It will probably take several generations to repair the damage this POTUS has done to science, democracy, rule of law, and the international damage to the reputation of the USA. But hey if he makes the country whiter so we are only whites victimized by other whites, the way white Jesus intended it, then the known racists and liars who support 45/47 will be more than happy. It's a petty retribution, revenge, victimhood thing they cling to with their guns and bibles.
Wasn't the actual complaint 'bout the "proposed" windmill farm off the coast? It was supposed to have up to 50 windmills and the EPA, under Bush, disapproved the EA?
It isn't likely that Trump was paying attention to much of what Bush did or didn't do.
Orsted finally got approval and loan guarantees from the government under the CHIPS and/or IRA act under Biden.
But Trump's had a burr in his saddle since 2006 when he started planning the first Scottish golf course.
He told their government not to build them where they could be seen by his guests, they built them anyway.
He thinks they don't create electricity, kill birds by the millions, specifically the official bird of our country, cause mental
disease and cancer.
New Jersey, seeing the writing on the wall in the "Big Beautiful Let's take huge steps Backwards Bill", paused the project
by 30 months to give the Trump Administration, in particular the Secretary of the Interior a chance to review; the
Secretary has all but said they ( wind projects ) are ugly and useless and he wont be approving them.
Orsted threw in the towel this week and will go build where they are needed and wanted.
Trump's 19-year war on wind power is 'weaponizing bureaucracy to undermine American energy production,' critics say | Fortune
I have neighbors in Texas who after years and years of persistent persuasion, finally put wind turbines on their ranch;
after a year or two they turned off their oil derricks and sold most of their cattle.
it's been an economic "windfall" ( sorry ). They no longer spend their days breathing the fumes and benzene from the oil
wells or cattle droppings and the windmills according to them are quiet; quietly earning them location and production
royalties. Texas rancher swaps his oil pumps for wind turbines - Taipei Times
Texas Farmers and Ranchers Are Embracing Renewable Energy - EcoWatch
Texans don't like to be told what they can and can't do on their own land and this conservative state isn't liking the Big
Beautiful Bill very much.