The rest of the world sees right through this con man…
“You once said that you would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours. You later said you said that sarcastically,” said a reporter from Austria National Television.
“Of course it was sarcastic,” interrupted Trump.
“But you’ve now been in office for five months and five days. Why have you not been able to end the Ukraine war?” asked the reporter.
“Because it’s more difficult than people would have any idea,” said Trump. “Uh, Vladimir Putin has been more difficult frankly. I had some problems with Zelensky. You may have read about them. And it’s been more difficult than other wars.”
The “people” in question are Trump and his MAGA supporters. No serious person thought that the Ukraine war could be ended in 24 hours. It was a sincere campaign promise made by a deeply ignorant man that he is now trying to retcon into sarcasm.
Trump was so busy fawning over Putin that he failed to see him as a threat and foolishly assumed that he could be easily coerced into a peace treaty. Worse yet, Trump’s public attacks on Zelensky — including his infamous Oval Office outburst — have weakened America’s hand at the negotiating table. Putin sees that our support of Ukraine is questionable at best and so he sees little reason to negotiate.
“I mean look, we just ended a war in twelve days that was simmering for thirty years, frankly,” Trump continued.
It remains to be seen if the ceasefire between Israel and Iran will hold, but the reports that Iranian nuclear facilities were simply set back a few months rather than “obliterated” puts the peace into serious doubt.
“Uh, we ended Rwanda and the Congo. They’re coming to sign the documents. We’ve already signed basic documents but they’re coming I think to the White House on Friday,” said Trump, although he likely couldn’t point to either country on a map.
“We ended, uh, Serbia was gonna go at it. But maybe the most important of all: India and Pakistan,” said Trump. “And that wasn’t whether or not they may some day have nukes like we’re talking about in the Middle East, like we’re talking about with Israel and Iran. This is they have nuclear weapons. I ended that with a series of phone calls on trade.”
This is textbook Trump. He claims credit for the successes of serious career diplomats and negotiators, but refuses to take responsibility for the things that he has personally ruined and complicated. This man is desperate for a Nobel Peace Prize and instead history will remember him as a deeply incompetent warmonger.
