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Trump Sics MAGA Loyalists on Zelensky Amid Feud

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The president’s allies piled on the Ukrainian president after Trump blamed him for the Russia-Ukraine war.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - OCTOBER 17: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the media during a press conference during the European Council at Batiment Europa on October 17, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.
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President Donald Trump has unleashed his MAGA allies on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the two leaders sparred about Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Vice President JD Vance chimed in Wednesday and warned Zelensky about attacking Trump after the Ukrainian said Trump lives in a “disinformation bubble.”

“The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president’s 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,” Trump’s guard dog said in an interview with the Daily Mail.

“We 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,” he added.

Vance went on to defend Trump. He claimed that the president knows “a lot” about geopolitics and that his decisions are based on policy and not disinformation.

The president’s “special government” goon, Elon Musk, also rushed to defend the president. The tech billionaire responded to an X user who wrote “Zelensky doesn’t want peace, he wants money and power,” on Tuesday, with the “100″ emoji, signaling his approval.

Laura Loomer, a far-right political activist, shared Trump’s Wednesday Truth Social post blasting Zelensky and added, “Zelensky probably wants to keep the “gravy train’ going. Bingo.”

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 Trump’s claim that Kyiv “started” the war with Russia, Zelensky told reporters at a press conference: “Unfortunately, President Trump, with all due respect to him as the leader of a nation that we greatly respect... is living in this disinformation bubble.”

The exchange continued online, with Trump striking on Truth Social. He wrote: “Think 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 couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle.”

In what turned out to be a long-winded attack, Trump added: “He [Zelensky] refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle.’ A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”

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.

​​“We are honest and we are open for peace talks but I have taken the decision of not visiting Saudi Arabia as I don’t want to create a false image,” 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 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier last week.

Meanwhile, Trump echoed Russia’s efforts to cast doubt on Zelensky’s legitimacy as president and told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday: “We have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law.”

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: “You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.”