Trump: ‘A Half-Baked Negotiator’ Could Have Ended War in Ukraine Years Ago

Reporter: “Do you have any message for Ukrainians who, after three years of fighting, might feel betrayed or disappointed at not having a seat at these initial talks in Saudi Arabia?”

Trump: “Well, I think I’m really disappointed in what’s happened. I’ve been watching this for three years. It’s a war that would have never happened if I was president, and I’ve been watching these — these, you know, people being killed at levels that you’ve rarely seen, not even close since the Second World War. And I’m very disappointed. I hear that, you know, they’re upset about not having a seat. Well, they’ve had a seat for three years and a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily, just a half — a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago without, I think, without the loss of much land, very little land, without the loss of any lives, and without the loss of cities that are just laying on their side. You have those magnificent golden domes that are shattered, will never be replaced. You can’t replace them. 1000-year-old domes that are so beautiful, they can’t replace that. A whole civilization has changed because of what — so, when they’re worried about not being seated, you mean, somebody that should have gone in and made a deal a long time ago. You could have made a deal. This is one that could have made a deal. There was no talk of this during the Trump Administration. Putin would have never ever done it. And by the way, we wouldn’t have had October 7th. You know that. We wouldn’t have had October 7th either in Israel and we wouldn’t have that mess that’s going on over there. It’s like — we have great fire people here. We’re putting out fires all over the world, we’re putting out fires. So that wouldn’t have happened. And you know what else wouldn’t have happened? Inflation, because it was caused really by the cost of energy going through the roof because of their bad energy policies and also their spending, their terrible spending, wasteful spending on the green new scam. It’s a scam. It’s a whole big scam. Yeah, please.”