'Even Half Baked Man...': Trump Takes U-Turn Before Meeting Putin Blames Zelensky For Ukraine War

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00:00They have to pay, they have to find out where's the money going to.

00:03They're Russian and Ukrainian people, but they're people.

00:05Doesn't matter where they're from on the whole planet.

00:09There's now peace. We have either a ceasefire or peace itself, and we're looking to do both.

00:16Grossly incompetent, and I think everyone knew that.

00:19This is something that should have never happened, would have never happened.

00:22And I used to discuss it with Putin.

00:24They say they took a poll, and Zelensky's at 4%.

00:28Who's living there?

00:30It's hard to believe that people live there.

00:32Their cities are being knocked down, maybe millions of lives.

00:36This could even end up in a World War III.

00:38Do you have any message for Ukrainians who, after three years of fighting,

00:41might feel betrayed or disappointed at not having a seat at these initial talks in Saudi Arabia?

00:46Well, I think I'm really disappointed in what's happened.

00:51I've been watching this for three years.

00:52It's a war that would have never happened if I was president.

00:55And I've been watching these people being killed at levels that

01:00you've rarely seen, not even close, since the Second World War.

01:05And I'm very disappointed.

01:06I hear that they're upset about not having a seat.

01:09Well, they've had a seat for three years and a long time before that.

01:13This could have been settled very easily.

01:14Just a half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago,

01:22without — I think without the loss of much land, very little land,

01:26without the loss of any lives, and without the loss of cities that are just laying

01:32on their sides.

01:32You have those magnificent golden domes that are shattered, will never be replaced.

01:38You can't replace them.

01:40Thousand-year-old domes that are so beautiful, you can't replace that.

01:44The whole civilization has changed because of what.

01:46So when they're worried about not being seated, you mean somebody that should have

01:51gone in and made a deal a long time ago.

01:54You could have made a deal.

01:55This is one that could have made a deal.

01:57There was no talk of this during the Trump administration.

01:59Putin would have never, ever done it.

02:02We have — I believe President Zelensky said last week that he doesn't know where

02:07half of the money is that we gave him.

02:09Well, we gave them, I believe, $350 billion.

02:12But let's say it's something less than that, but it's a lot.

02:16And we have to equalize with Europe because Europe has given us — given a very much

02:21smaller percentage than that.

02:23I think Europe has given $100 billion, and we've given, let's say, $300 plus.

02:29And it's more important for them than it is for us.

02:32We have an ocean in between, and they don't.

02:35But where is all the money that's been given?

02:38Where is it going?

02:39And nobody — I've never seen an accounting of it.

02:41We give hundreds of billions of dollars.

02:44I have — I don't see any accounting.

02:46So, I want to see peace.

02:48Look, you know why I want?

02:50Because I don't want all these people killed anymore.

02:53I'm looking at people that are being killed.

02:55And they're Russian and Ukrainian people, but they're people.

02:58It doesn't matter where they're from on the whole planet.

03:02And I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well.

03:07But today, I heard, oh, well, we weren't invited.

03:09Well, you've been there for three years.

03:10You should have ended it three years.

03:12You should have never started it.

03:13You could have made a deal.

03:14I could have made a deal for Ukraine that would have given them almost all of the land —

03:20everything.

03:21Almost all of the land.

03:22And no people would have been killed, and no city would have been demolished,

03:25and not one dome would have been knocked down.

03:28But they chose not to do it that way.

03:30And President Biden, in all fairness — he doesn't have a clue.

03:33What he — he was so bad for this.

03:35He was so bad.

03:35So pathetic.

03:37So sad.

03:38But with all of that being said, look, we — it is what it is.

03:42When I left, there was no chance that this could have happened.

03:44But it happened because we had incompetent leadership at many different levels.

03:48But when you see what's taken place in Ukraine, with millions of people killed,

03:54including the soldiers — millions of people killed.

03:57A big percentage of their cities knocked down to the ground.

04:00I don't know how anybody even lives there.

04:01You know, when they say they took a poll, and Zelensky is at 4 percent.

04:05Who's living there?

04:06You know, I mean, people are — it's hard to believe that people live there.

04:09Their cities are being knocked down.

04:12And this is something that would have never happened.

04:14And, by the way, for four years, it didn't happen.

04:17It was never going to happen.

04:18Go ahead.

04:19The Press How would you counter the perception — because

04:23Russia is pushing for this, obviously.

04:24They don't really hold true elections — that that would be a capitulation of some sort.

04:28How would you guard against potentially Russia installing a puppet government?

04:32And then, finally, how would that new election have an impact on getting

04:36Zelensky to sign the rare-earth-minerals deal?

04:39Look, you have leadership — and I like him personally.

04:44He's fine.

04:45But I don't care about personally.

04:48I care about getting the job done.

04:50You have leadership now that's allowed a war to go on that should have never even happened,

04:54even without the United States.

04:55Look, we had a President who was grossly incompetent.

05:00He had no idea what he was doing.

05:01He said some very stupid things, like going in for portions and all those things.

05:05He made a lot of bad statements.

05:06But he's grossly incompetent, and I think everyone knew that.

05:11This is something that should have never happened, would have never happened.

05:14And I used to discuss it with Putin.

05:17President Putin and I would talk about Ukraine.

05:19It was the apple of his eye, I will tell you that.

05:21But he never — there was never a chance of him going in.

05:23And I told him, you better not go in.

05:25Don't go in.

05:26Don't go in.

05:27And he understood that.

05:28He understood it fully.

05:30But I'm only interested — I want to see if I can save maybe millions of lives.

05:35This could even end up in a World War III.

05:37I mean, to be honest with you, you've been hearing now Europe is saying,

05:39well, I think we're going to go in and we're going to go.

05:41All of a sudden, you're going to end up in World War III

05:44over something that should have never happened.

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