Trump takes swipe at Zelensky’s leadership

“Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left,” US President Donald Trump says in a post on Truth Social.

Labelling Zelensky “a dictator”, Trump writes: “I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job, his country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died.”

Trump says in the meantime, the US is “successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia”.

For context: Zelensky’s presidential term expired last May, however Ukraine has been under martial law since the Russian invasion in February 2022, which means presidential elections are suspended.

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    3 days ago

    “aid we’ve sent” this language doesn’t explain to the brainwashed that this is money in our pockets.

    When we “send 1 billion in aid”, it usually means the US govt bought $1B of weapons from an American manufacturer and is delivering it to Ukraine.

    That isn’t $1B for Ukraine, it’s $1B for us and $1B worth of guns for Ukraine.

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      3 days ago

      By “in our pockets” yes, it might go to some Americans, but you’re largely talking about taking it out of the taxes of all Americans and giving it to the 0.1%.

      Those American weapons manufacturers and their inverstors are already beyond incredibly wealthy.

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      Too bad they have that picture of Zelensky with all the money on his desk so every time I say this they just point to that as a means of discrediting me. There is no reasoning here. We are post-consesus reality now.