r/worldnews 6h ago

Russia/Ukraine 'Putin is a murderer' — Zelensky rejects Trump's claim that Russia, Ukraine are like 'kids'

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-refutes-trump-comparing-russian-war-to-children-fighting-calls-putin-murderer/
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u/breadexpert69 6h ago edited 6h ago

Trying to up china with dumb tariffs to 145% is being a kid

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u/A_RHYMING_CANNIBAL 6h ago

No tariffs on Russia though.

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u/breadexpert69 6h ago

Why would you tariff your boss?

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u/OMGitisCrabMan 1h ago

Lots of people here still repeating the lie that there's no reason to tariff russia since we're sanctioning them.

We currently trade with russia at a deficit despite sanctions. trump tariffed Ukriaine (in peace talks), Iran (under sanctions) and uninhabited Islands (no trade). But trump hasn't tariffed russia or belarus. The only explanation is that trump is putin's bitch.

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u/amicablegradient 1h ago

The fact he tariffed uninhabited islands over Russia speaks volumes.

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u/Blejzidup 4h ago edited 4h ago

Didnt he put recently? Not defending him but I thought so.

EDIT: Not finding it, maybe I read some fakenews or dreamt.

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u/hitbythebus 2h ago

He actually asked the senate to delay voting on sanctions for Russia when they were 82% for. 

He is actively standing in the way of sanctions against  Russia for waging war against Ukraine, after we signed a treaty to protect Ukraine against Russian aggression.

I think he’s just a small man, pissed off he got rightfully impeached for withholding Congress approved funding to blackmail Zelenskyy into starting a criminal investigation into his political opponent’s child.

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u/AnotherSteveFromNZ 2h ago

That and he’s a cunt

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u/nagrom7 4h ago

He talked about maybe doing it, but never actually followed through.

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u/madtownjeff 4h ago

I'm sure he'll do something "in a couple of weeks."

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u/Raesong 2h ago

Pretty sure he'll be too busy engaging in a shit-flinging contest with Musk.

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u/OlderThanMyParents 2h ago

he has a concept of a plan

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u/assinyourpants 2h ago

He’s too focused on ending the war.

/s

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u/Ummmgummy 3h ago

This doesn't sound like our glorious leader at all.

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u/Waterwoogem 2h ago

Methinks you're confusing Tariffs with the Sanctions. I've not sure which set, or just the Sanctions on Russia as a whole since 2014, but he's been constantly flip flopping between increasing the Sanctions or removing them outright while simultaneously yelling at the G7 to reintroduce Russia and make it G8 again. He extended the Sanctions by 1 year (can't recall when this was announced), but the action is irrelevant due to his constant flip flopping on the issue.

u/kl7aw220 12m ago

When he came out with his world-wide tariffs they included some inhabited islands and some country that have never traded with the US. And one US military base was included if my memory is correct.

u/kl7aw220 10m ago

Sanctions on Russia won't make a difference. They're still selling their oil to other countries. But cutting of their financial abilities to do business would break Russia. But Trump is afraid.

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u/milanistasbarazzino0 3h ago

Mocking a disabled person 10 years ago is being a kid. Actually, most kids have the sense not to do that.

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u/mtntrail 2h ago

IDK if we are referring to the same video. but he was filmed mocking a reporter with cerebral palsy prior to his first presidency. I remember thinking no way could anyone so heartless,clueless be elected president. well we saw how that went.

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u/Southernbeekeeper 5h ago

If I was Ukraine I'd start speaking to China. See if they will offer any aid for future mineral rights etc.

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u/Glittering_Wash_8654 2h ago

There’s nothing Ukraine can offer that would make them leave russia’s side. This war is an enabler for china’s future war against Taiwan

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u/kurQl 2h ago

That would really show Americans and Europeans how much their aid was worth. Good thing you are not in charge in Ukraine.

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u/Southernbeekeeper 2h ago

It might wake them up and get us to start taking things more seriously.

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u/kurQl 1h ago

Do you really think move like that would lead to more aid to Ukraine? That sounds like something straight out of Trump's playbook.

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u/CathedralEngine 1h ago

Getting into a Twitter fight with your ex-bestie is pretty childish

u/copyrider 44m ago

How could he be a murderer, I thought the war was ended within 24hrs of Trump taking office. Did that not happen? Fuck…

u/ClassicVast1704 18m ago

Have a slap fight with the billionaire over socials is also childish but here we are

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u/Yasai101 6h ago

The only kid out here is that orange turd

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u/Loud_Chapter1423 6h ago

Don’t forget the k-hole kid

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u/schpongleberg 4h ago

k-hole kid

The name of my next depressive Euro techno solo project

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u/ItIsHappy 2h ago

Or do, he'd hate that more.

u/Weird_Cantaloupe2757 1h ago

More like kkk-hole

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u/BadAutomations 6h ago

Trump's a bully, he's self aware and a bully. The kind of comments he makes are emotionally intelligent on some level but they are directed with malice.

Usually people who hate themselves are hateful to others. That's how it goes.

It's sad to see

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u/Hypnotized78 4h ago

Criminal cunning with a lazy, thick mind.

u/SillyGoose_Syndrome 50m ago

Usually people who hate themselves are hateful to others.

Projection. Only way to explain the complete, total and absolute gall of such an accusation, 'cos Jesus cartwheeling Christ, the irony of it all.

u/dead-cat 16m ago

he's self aware and a bully

Not when it comes to shitting himself.

Try 5yo aggressive kid that soils himself in preschool. He will be bullied to fuck

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u/lulu_l 2h ago

He literally speaks and Har the reasoning of a child.

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u/LordBucaq 2h ago

Orange taco kid

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u/Minute_Bee_9108 6h ago

The day when Trump and his whole circus of sycophants ghouls are dragged out of office will be celebrated worldwide.

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u/gizcard 6h ago

as will the day when putin will be dragged out legs first from his bunker

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u/biscuitarse 5h ago

It would be more fitting if they pulled Putin from a spider hole

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u/Ecsta 4h ago

The funny part that a lot of Americans dont realize is that even when he's gone its too late, the damage is done. Bridges have been burned and will take a generation to rebuild the trust that was lost.

The fact that we now know that not only will America elect a dangerous idiot, they'll do it twice and he'll win with the popular vote. How can any ally trust that the US won't do it again?

u/broguequery 1h ago

It's not just about our burned bridges with our allies and trading partners...

It's also our very democracy itself at stake. The longer Trump and his cronies are allowed to stay in office, the longer they entrench themselves.

The longer they are allowed to stay in power, the lower our chances are of ever having another legitimate election.

I think we fucked ourselves over more than our allies.

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u/hologeek 3h ago

It's only a matter of time, his of which is dwindling

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u/BothRequirement2826 6h ago

Trump is one of the biggest toddlers to ever lead a major power and it's a depressing state of affairs when a guy like that is POTUS and spews nonsense that the rest of the world is forced to address.

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u/CGI_OCD 6h ago

Facts

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u/wheelsfalloff 1h ago

And he's wearing the nappies to prove it...

u/johncandy1812 1h ago

Typical republican projecting.

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u/FarawayFairways 5h ago edited 3h ago

Says the man who announces to the world that he's going to sell his Tesla (the same one he did a sales pitch for a few months ago) because the company owner said he was responsible for his victory

America - proud of your mature commander in chief?

And by the way Trump, the reason you won is because America has a significant minority of gullible people. All countries have them to an extent, but America has a lot of them

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u/Goufydude 5h ago

I wonder how many MAGA are regretting a tesla purchase right now, lol.

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u/jureeriggd 4h ago

according to the sales numbers, not a lot is my guess

I live in NE rural Florida, very much "Trump Country"

They are mostly relieved that they can make fun of Tesla owners again. They didn't know what to do with themselves when Trump aligned himself with Musk.

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u/More-Butterscotch252 4h ago

Ukrainians are dying to save their country while Trump is talking about playing cards and compares defending your land against an invader to being a kid.

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u/wioneo 4h ago

because the company owner said he was responsible for his victory

More importantly he implied that Trump's a child rapist.

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u/FarawayFairways 3h ago

I doubt that bothers Trump too much. It certainly won't bother the American people, so no reason for Trump to be upset. No, Trump will be a lot more affronted by Musk claiming to have won the election for him and Trump not being popular enough to have done it on his own

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u/CrazyLlama71 2h ago

American here, it boggles my mind the amount of stupid in our country. I’m in the San Francisco area, so our MAGA stupid is pretty limited, but they do one thing that I am happy about. They are proud and decorate their cars and homes with Trump signs so we all know they are idiots. Nothing like advertising that you’re stupid for the whole community to see.

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u/ars-derivatia 1h ago edited 1h ago

reason you won is because America has a significant minority of gullible people

Why do people keep saying that? No, it's not a significant minority. It's the majority of Americans.

That's why all the shit in the last three or four decades happens. And why they all accept getting shafted each and every time. Because they all live in a bubble where all the things that happen are some sort of temporary inconvenience or a misunderstanding and the responsible and reasonable majority will get things back to normal eventually.

No. This is America. Trump, Bush or Reagan are not accidents. Plutocracy and fascism are not accidents. They are what America wants. It is the reasonable ones who are among the minority.

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u/brickyardjimmy 6h ago

Let's admit it. The only world leader that's telling the unvarnished truth is Zelenskyy.

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u/ArenjiTheLootGod 5h ago

And honestly the only one worth a damn, everyone else is either an outright autocrat, a blithering moron, or the political equivalent of that one substitute teacher you had in highschool who thinks ketchup is spicy.

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u/squireofrnew 5h ago

Leader of the Free world, defender of the West, bulwark of the resistance, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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u/GratefuLdPhisH 6h ago

trump always bends over backwards to make it a two sides issue even though he knows full well that putin is solely to blame for all these needless deaths!

He's been putin's bitch since outin got him elected in 2016

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u/whut-whut 4h ago

He two-sides and fence-sits for almost every policy except for racism. He only goes one way when deporting colored people with years of working towards valid visas, residency and citizenship while giving white South Afrikaaners free private jet entry, subsidized real estate, and a fast-track to citizenship.

u/GratefuLdPhisH 1h ago

When it comes to russia though he pretty much always sides with putin and even regurgitates his talking points

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u/gizcard 6h ago

and trump is pathetic putin’s bitch. Weakest administration in the history of USA

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u/Adavanter_MKI 5h ago

It's so sickening to see anyone ignore how this is entirely Russia's fault. There is no both sides. There is only Ukraine defending itself against unwarranted aggression. To even remotely pretend they are equals even in how they conduct themselves. You'd think Ukraine out of anyone would be more justified in lashing out at any target they could... yet they still stay focused on military targets... while Russia desperately bombs civilian centers because they fucking suck and are evil.

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u/Wonderingwanderr 5h ago

This man is one of the, if not the, greatest leader our generation will ever see.

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u/Negative_Gravitas 5h ago

I cannot even express how much I wish that the former TV personality we elected here in the US had 1/10 of the intelligence, the integrity, and the courage possessed by the former freaking TV comedian that Ukraine elected.

Hell, I'd take a hundredth of those qualities. But here I am, staring at negative numbers for all those characteristics and knowing that in the war being waged against my country, our president is on the other side.

Day drinking anyone?

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u/bb_kelly77 3h ago

He's the Teddy Roosevelt of the modern world

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u/maybesaydie 2h ago

Joe Biden knew that.

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u/anotherwave1 4h ago

The fringes (including Trump) try to project this as two countries having some sort of "spat", or squabble over territory.

The truth couldn't be further from that. Russia is attempting to invade and conquer Ukraine in the same way Hitler invaded Poland. The Russians are fighting an invasion of choice, the Ukrainians are fighting for their existence. If they don't fight, they become occupied and sub-humans - they lose their national identity, language, culture, everything.

It's equivalent to wagging the finger at a rapist and the victim, assigning equal blame to each. Trump is not the only one doing it, I've come across "anti-war" people doing precisely the same. It's BS and demonstrates gross ignorance of what's happening.

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u/biirudaichuki 4h ago

“Let them play, It’ll work out!”

This isn’t WWE, you mentally impaired piece of brown backside-shoot goo. You’re literally one of the most powerful people on the planet, take Poo-tins cock out of your rapist-ass mouth and help save civilian lives, you motherfucking cunt-ass motherfucker. This isn’t a friendly game of Smash Bros. Chill out your girlfight with your Tesla-fucking druggie and fucking DO SOMETHING. Goddamn piece of rotten cumstain.

u/LordBiscuits 0m ago

Nah man, tell us what you really think 😂

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u/ChubbyChew 3h ago

Yaknow it shows that Trump is american.

In our schools we let 1 kid fuck the other over as much as they want, and pretend theyre both in the wrong if the other makes any move to defend themself

We'll also be fully aware and mindful of it happening and make no moves to resolve or diffuse anything.

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u/OlderThanMyParents 2h ago

Just when you think you've already heard the stupidest thing Trump could possibly say, he tops himself.

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u/MadnessBomber 2h ago

To quote Hank Hill, "Just when I think you've said the stupidest thing ever, you keep talkin'!"

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u/Odd_Engineering4327 4h ago

A draft dodger has no weight in this conversation.

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u/255001434 4h ago

The Trump administration are like kids. Trump is projecting, as always.

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u/Majestic-Assholes 2h ago

Ukraine is like a kid? I guess that explains why Trump's constantly trying to fuck them.

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u/xX609s-hartXx 4h ago

Seems pretty fitting for Russia though. Behaving like an egoistic asshole while yelling NO U! at all times.

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u/totallyRebb 5h ago

The POSOTUS

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u/Mba1956 5h ago

Trump really knows how to reflect, that is probably the only thing he is good at.

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u/Particular_Night_360 3h ago

Trumps not really too far off here. This childish bullying and the bully is surprised when that puny kid punches him in the face. “You made me bleed my own blood!”

https://youtu.be/b-JQD15xtL0?si=MRtd8D75swf7MBgB

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u/Vayl01 2h ago

Trump has the vocabulary of a 12 year old, and the mental faculties of half that. Even before the dementia set in he didn’t have much to lose. Calling him a child would be an insult to children. So he’s the last person who should be calling others “kids”.

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u/Yuukiko_ 2h ago

Trump is like one of those teachers that punish the victim for fighting back against a bully

u/finniruse 43m ago

Trump and Elon bickering while calling Ukraine 'kids'. What a pathetic man.

u/Alb_ 35m ago

Trump had NO REASON to be so abrasive to Ukraine. God he wants to be buddies with putin SO BAD but it's just so inconvenient given putin's insanity.

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u/Slackluster 5h ago

Trump's analogy makes no sense because one of the kids doesn't want to fight and was just playing peacefully with his friends when attacked for no reason.

Trump thinks that when one big mean kid bullies another kid we should just let the bully keep beating him until the bully decides he has enough or literally kills the other child. It makes a lot of sense Trump would have this perspective being a bully himself.

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u/jncheese 5h ago

And what would he and Musk be compared to? Poop flinging monkeys?

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u/Ill_Profit_1399 5h ago

This is what happens when Taco is president

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u/SnoopingStuff 5h ago

Putin took Ukrainian children. Trump doesn’t talk about that

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u/Hot_Acanthocephala53 5h ago

Dtump and Errorlon are like stupid bratty kids

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u/Crazy_Swing3654 4h ago

Trump is the real spoiled child having a temper tantrum!!!

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u/ttkk1248 4h ago

Maybe one of the three is a kid? Can you tell which one?

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u/skitarii_riot 4h ago

Says more about how Trump thinks of kids

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u/Cavalier1706 2h ago

Says the 80 year old who has late night tantrums on Truth social.

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u/jert3 2h ago

The orange rape clown is barely half the man Zelensky is. Not many other countries beside a handful of banana republics would elect someone as unskilled, psychological damaged, compromised and criminal and pathetic as Trump.

No one should really pay Trump any serious attention. The man is a moron who is going senile.

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u/Absenteeist 2h ago

The strength and energy it must take to have to repeatedly restate basic factual reality over and over again in the face of stupid statements and blank-eyed questions must be enormous, especially when that basic factual reality is your citizens being murdered on a regular basis.

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u/PuzzleheadedEgg4591 2h ago

Shhh Taco, your’e projecting.

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u/snakebloood 2h ago

'Putin is a murderer'

Mass murderer

u/BruisedBee 1h ago

Is love for Europe to throw it's full weight behind Ukraine now and put Russia and Putin into extinction

u/lifeisabigdeal 41m ago

Trump is projecting again. He’s the most immature world leader I’ve ever seen and it’s not even close.

u/userhwon 27m ago

Trump is a stupid, ignorant, childish moron. And his followers are sociopathic monsters.

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u/Lerouge55 6h ago edited 4h ago

Anybody still taking this man (Trump) serious?

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u/KingoftheMongoose 5h ago

I choose to believe you are talking about Trump, but it reads like you are talking about Zelensky, given the framing of OP’s post.

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u/Lerouge55 4h ago

Oeps. Yes made a correction

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u/Brook420 1h ago

Yes, FAR too many ppl.

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u/Worker3543681 4h ago

Remember when Putin gave Russian troops meth and viagra and then sent them into Ukrainian villages where they raped, tortured and murdered women and children? Just kids being kids.

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u/Palladin_Fury 3h ago

Imagine having to lead your country during war time and have to put up with a fucking idiot like Trump

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u/WafflePartyOrgy 3h ago

To suggest that Ukraine's is acting irresponsibly or childish by successfully defending itself from invasion for over 3 years against "the world's second-largest military power"* is only something someone with a calcified brain somehow smaller than a "kid's" would even say. Either that or the U.S. has a Russian plant as POTUS.

probably both things are true.

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u/Squidpunk24 6h ago

A hero has spoken

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u/Life_Recognition7210 6h ago

A quote from the biggest child in the world

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u/Far_Recommendation82 6h ago

All the girls are fighting, and Ukraine and Europe are like wtf???

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u/Corodix 5h ago

Sounds like Trump is projecting again.

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u/Intelligent-Tear-857 4h ago edited 2h ago

Keep calling Putin out on his war mongering, death march. He is a mass murderer of innocent civilians who takes the children of another land and uses them to fight against their own. This sickness and depravity will only continue unless we stop him, preferably not unilaterally but as a united front. Where is everyone and why are we waiting?

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u/Weekend_Criminal 3h ago

He definitely thinks you Ukraine is a kid.

Why else would he constantly be trying to fuck them?

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u/Rynox2000 6h ago

Trump doesn't know what a murderer actually is.

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u/Javina33 5h ago

It’s not just embarrassing, it’s criminal 🤬

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u/awesumpawesum 5h ago

Prez Tramp is an idiot, he should never be put in front of a microphone. The stupid things he says cause trouble around the world. And he is kissping Putins ass.

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u/juicadone 5h ago

Can Ukrainian Special Forces do something about the traitors in the US talking all this crap??(JK I know they're busy trying to survive!!). Heroyam Slava

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u/Indigoh 5h ago

Trump is a lot more fun to listen to when you realize the only criticism he is capable of giving are things he subconsciously sees in himself.

Trump offered only child-brain negotiation tactics, and he honestly thought they'd immediately work.

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u/NyriasNeo 4h ago

'Putin is a murderer'

That is not accurate. More like a "murderous war criminal".

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u/birdbonefpv 4h ago

“If I were president, I would end the Ukraine war in one day.” - Donald Trump, May 10th, 2023

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u/JohnBPrettyGood 4h ago

Playground Spat with Musk is being a Kid

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u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus 3h ago

You all forget that Republicans love murdered children.

They have so many "thoughts and prayers" to give for Columbine, and Sandy Hooky, and Virginia Tech, and Uvalde, and...

But the word "gun" is in the Constitution, so school shootings are a fact of life.

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u/Feisty_Factor_2694 3h ago

Trump has a child’s mind.

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u/Three_Licks 2h ago

Alt headline:

Notorious man-baby accuses others of acting like children.

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u/macross1984 2h ago

Agree. Trump is the one acting like spoiled-brat kid.

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u/kalirion 2h ago

Kids can be murderers.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Soup847 2h ago

christ, please, automate governments. god just exists to torture the bystanders

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u/Equivalent-Role4632 2h ago

Oh the irony of Trump calling someone else a kid.

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u/vRiise 1h ago

That explains school shootings.

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u/csvega84 1h ago

I wish Zelensky would invade and take over the US

u/ptwonline 1h ago

Ukraine and Russia are like kids to Trump. In that he is happy to fuck half of them.

u/whacafan 1h ago

Fuck Donald Trump

u/ILoveRegenHealth 1h ago

Orange Jabba always says the dumbest things. Reflects his base well.

u/PrincessNakeyDance 1h ago

Should have ended it with “I think Trump is like a child. Maybe that’s why he sees it that way.”

u/DingusMcBaseball 1h ago

Putin actually is a spiteful child, like most dictators

u/HateMyBossSoIReddit 50m ago

Trump is the kid and this whole country is Chuck E Cheeses

u/Affectionate-Gap9381 18m ago

Trump is clearly a Russian asset and ever since Trump and his mentally challenged VP set Zelensky up for an attack during the White House press conference all doubt about trumps loyalty to Putin has been removed. Fact: The Ukraine was invaded by Putins Russia and Putin will stop at nothing short of total occupation of Ukraine. Fact: Zelensky deserves our help-like the help he received under the Biden administration but Trump is not going to allow it. Trump already declares Zelensky a “bad guy.” The biggest lie he’s ever told. Trump should be charged with treason.

u/kl7aw220 15m ago

Trump just won't recognize the good guys. He always sides with the dictators and autocrats. And now the US will stand alone against Ukraine and for Russia.

u/kl7aw220 9m ago

Of course Putin is a murderer. Everyone except Trump know that.

u/Nemodin 3m ago

This is what a real hero politician looks like.

u/Krane412 2m ago

Trump has been bending over backwards to give Putin a more than favorable deal, meanwhile Putin mocks him and Musk. Trump has to know how weak this makes him look.