Trump Calls Zelensky a ‘Dictator’ as Tensions Rise Over the Russia-Ukraine War

TIME

U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, again calling the Ukrainian president a “dictator without elections” and blaming him for the ongoing war.

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00:00But think of it, a modestly successful comedian,

00:04President Zelensky talked the United States of America into spending

00:09350 billion dollars to go into a war that

00:13basically couldn't be won, that never had to start, and never would have started if

00:18I was president, not even a chance, and it didn't start for four years.

00:21He refuses to have elections, is low in the real Ukrainian polls, I mean how can

00:27you be high with every city is being demolished?

00:30It's hard to be high, somebody said oh no his polls are good, give me a break.

00:34Every city is being demolished, they look like a demolition site, every single one

00:38of them, and the only thing he was really good

00:42at was playing Joe Biden like a fiddle, he played him like a fiddle, that's an

00:46expression we use, yes sir, to say that he's pretty easy,

00:51pretty easy. A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he's not

00:57going to have a country left, got to move, got to move fast because

01:00that war is going in the wrong direction. In the meantime we're successfully

01:04negotiating an end to the war with Russia. I love

01:08Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job,

01:11his country is shattered, and millions and millions of people have

01:15unnecessarily died, and you can't bring a war to an end if

01:20you don't talk to both sides, you got to talk, they haven't been talking for three

01:23years.

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