President Donald Trump has unleashed his MAGA allies on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the two leaders sparred about Russiaâs war against Ukraine.
Vice President JD Vance chimed in Wednesday and warned Zelensky about attacking Trump after the Ukrainian said Trump lives in a âdisinformation bubble.â
âThe idea that Zelensky is going to change the presidentâs mind by badmouthing him in public media, everyone who knows the President will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration,â Trumpâs guard dog said in an interview with the Daily Mail.
âWe obviously love the Ukrainian people. We admire the bravery of the soldiers, but we obviously think that this war needs to come to a rapid close,â he added.
Vance went on to defend Trump. He claimed that the president knows âa lotâ about geopolitics and that his decisions are based on policy and not disinformation.
The presidentâs âspecial governmentâ goon, Elon Musk, also rushed to defend the president. The tech billionaire responded to an X user who wrote âZelensky doesnât want peace, he wants money and power,â on Tuesday, with the â100âł emoji, signaling his approval.
Laura Loomer, a far-right political activist, shared Trumpâs Wednesday Truth Social post blasting Zelensky and added, âZelensky probably wants to keep the âgravy trainâ going. Bingo.â
Trump told reporters on Tuesday that Ukraine is to blame for its plight in its war with Russia. The president also blamed the Ukrainian president for his inability to help his country.
In response to Trumpâs claim that Kyiv âstartedâ the war with Russia, Zelensky told reporters at a press conference: âUnfortunately, President Trump, with all due respect to him as the leader of a nation that we greatly respect... is living in this disinformation bubble.â
The exchange continued online, with Trump striking on Truth Social. He wrote: âThink of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldnât be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and âTRUMP,â will never be able to settle.â
In what turned out to be a long-winded attack, Trump added: âHe [Zelensky] refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden âlike a fiddle.â A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.â
Zelensky chose not to fly to Saudi Arabia for a trip after he was iced out of closed-door talks about the Ukraine-Russia war between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Tuesday in the country.
âââWe are honest and we are open for peace talks but I have taken the decision of not visiting Saudi Arabia as I donât want to create a false image,â the Ukrainian leader told reporters at a press conference in Turkey on Tuesday.
The Saudi Arabia talks between Russia and the U.S. came after Trump and Kremlin overlord Vladimir Putin discussed ending Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine earlier last week.
Meanwhile, Trump echoed Russiaâs efforts to cast doubt on Zelenskyâs legitimacy as president and told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday: âWe have a situation where we havenât had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law.â
He left out that the Ukrainian constitution bars elections during martial law or that a poll published Wednesday found that 57 percent of Ukrainians said they trust Zelensky, according to the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).
Instead, the president blamed Ukraine and said: âYou should have never started it. You could have made a deal.â