By The Opinion
Sep 25, 2024, 8:51 PM EDT
At his event in North Carolina, Trump mentioned the war in Ukraine and Zelensky’s visit to the US. He insisted that the war in Ukraine “would never have happened” if he had been in office.
“The president of Ukraine is in our country and is making small, unpleasant insinuations about his favorite president, me,” he said.
The former president accused the Ukrainian leader of refusing to “conclude an agreement” to end his country’s war with Russia.
“We continue to give billions of dollars to a man who refuses to make a deal, Zelensky,” the Republican candidate for the White House said during a rally in North Carolina.
“Every time he came to our country, he left with $60 billion dollars,” he added. Trump, who described the Ukrainian president as “probably the best salesman on Earth.”
“What does he have left now?” he mocked.
“The country is absolutely devastated,” he continued.
There had been talk of a meeting between Trump, who is highly critical of Washington’s aid to kyiv, and Zelensky on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
But the American press dismisses this. It claims that Trump did not appreciate Zelensky’s interview with The New Yorker magazine, in which the Ukrainian president said he believes the 78-year-old Republican “does not really know how to stop the war.”
Trump’s remarks came shortly after Zelensky accused Russia at the UN of plotting potentially catastrophic attacks against Ukrainian nuclear power plants.
Trump said in early September that he had a plan to end the war, but that he would only reveal it if he wins the US presidential election on November 5.
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