President Trump Blasts Zelensky: ‘A Dictator Without Elections’

 

 

"President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “Dictator without Elections” a day after Zelensky complained about Ukraine not having a seat at diplomatic talks Tuesday between the United States and Russia.

 

Trump ripped into Zelensky in a lengthy Truth Social post, first addressing him as “a modestly successful comedian” rather than president.

 

“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a Conflict that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a Conflict that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump wrote.

 

Trump added that the United States has spent hundreds of billions more on the conflict than Europe has:

 

    The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe’s money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this Conflict is far more important to Europe than it is to us — We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation.

 

He went on to write that Zelesnky “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,” he added.

 

Trump added that his administration, which has had a significant presence in Europe and in Saudi Arabia over the past week pushing for peace, is “successfully negotiating an end to the Conflict with Russia.”

 

“Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the “gravy train” going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died,” Trump concluded.

 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, and Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff met Tuesday with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov in Saudi Arabia. Ukraine was not present.

 

As New York Times Kyiv Bureau Chief Andrew Kramer framed it, Zelensky “lashed out at the Trump administration” after the meeting:

 

    “Decisions on how to end the conflict in Ukraine cannot be made without Ukraine, nor can any conditions be imposed,” Mr. Zelensky said from Turkey, where he had traveled as part of a planned tour of the Middle East. “We were not invited to this Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia. It was a surprise for us, I think for many others as well.”

 

Rubio and Vice President JD Vance notably met with Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference last week in Germany. Zelensky said the discussion was “good.”

 

“We want peace very much, but we need real security guarantees, and we will continue our meetings and our work, and we will be very happy to see General Kellogg also in Ukraine,” he added.”