'We Get A Lot Of Bullsh*t Thrown At Us By Putin': Trump Rails Against Russian President

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At a White House Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Trump spoke about Russia's war with Ukraine.

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00:00Any questions?

00:01Yes?

00:02Yes, sir.

00:03You just said that you're not happy with Vladimir Putin.

00:04Is there anything that you plan to do to act on that feeling of unhappiness?

00:07Well, I wouldn't be telling you.

00:09Don't we want to have a little surprise?

00:10You know, one of the things we did with the attack is that — you asked that question

00:16and I wish — I didn't mean to be rude, but I'm going to be rude because I'm looking

00:20at some of these crooked people up here.

00:22So I'm rude.

00:23But your question was asked very nicely.

00:25But one of the things we did is we went over every fact.

00:30We wanted to get every fact straight.

00:32We wanted to have the distance straight, the number of pilots straight — everything

00:35had to be correct because we want to be — this was a very important mission.

00:40If we failed on this mission, it was beyond the war that, you know, obviously we had with

00:48Iran and Israel and a lot of hatred, a lot of years and years of hatred — centuries

00:53of hatred.

00:55They've never — people have never seen anything like it.

00:58So we wanted to be correct with all our facts.

01:00So, you know, what I was doing is just asking — it would be great if — if the media would

01:06be correct with their facts.

01:08That's all we ask for.

01:09So — and go ahead.

01:10So finish it up.

01:11Oh, yes.

01:12Just sort of turning back to Russia, if there's anything that you would signal about your displeasure

01:18with them?

01:19I just — look, I'm very unhappy with them.

01:21There's no reason for this.

01:24It's — it's turned out to be tougher, but it's — it's only tougher.

01:29And I will say, the Ukrainians were brave, but we gave them the best equipment ever made.

01:35We gave them the anti-tankbusters that knocked out tanks.

01:41I mean, you just aim them in the direction of the tank, and the tank is gone.

01:46We gave them missiles, the latest and the greatest.

01:51They were able to shoot down a lot of things that would have normally wiped out — you

01:55know, probably would have been a very quick war.

01:57It would have been a war that lasted three, four days.

01:59But they had the benefit of unbelievable equipment.

02:02And Europe gave them — so we gave them far more, because Biden shouldn't have done that.

02:07He should have equalized.

02:08We should have given them the same, or we should have given actually less than Europe.

02:12It affects Europe much more than us.

02:13But we're in there for over $300 billion.

02:16Europe's in there for over $100 billion.

02:19But still, Europe gave a lot.

02:21And I will say this.

02:23The Ukrainians, whether you think it's unfair that we gave them all that money or not,

02:28they were very brave, because somebody had to operate that stuff.

02:31A lot of people I know wouldn't be operating it, and they wouldn't have the courage to do it.

02:34So they fought very bravely.

02:35But we gave them the best equipment in the world.

02:40We make the best military equipment by far.

02:42There's nobody close.

02:43You look at other equipment from other countries, it's not even close.

02:46That's why everybody wants to buy our equipment.

02:49And that's why we're going to step up these contractors now that make it.

02:53And they're brilliant, but they make it too slowly.

02:56And we have to step them up, Pete, and let them make it at a much higher rate.

03:01Unfortunately, we have to do that.

03:03But if you look at our Patriots, if you look at our Tomahawks, if you look at our,

03:08well, what we do with tanks is you wouldn't want to be driving a tank.

03:13You would feel nice and secure.

03:15But they are javelins, they're called.

03:18And I gave them the javelins.

03:20Remember, they said Trump gave the javelins and Obama gave them sheets.

03:25Right?

03:26They called Obama at that time.

03:29Barack Hussein Obama, if you haven't heard, did a terrible job.

03:32But that was a war that should have never happened.

03:36And a lot of people are dying, and it should end.

03:39And I don't know, we get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin,

03:44if you want to know the truth.

03:46He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.

03:50Do you want to say something, then?

03:52Lindsey Graham has a sanctions bill on Russia.

03:54Do you want him to move that?

03:55I'm looking at it, yeah.

03:56No, I'm looking.

03:57The Senate is passing and passed a very tough sanctions bill.

04:01Yeah, I'm looking at it.

04:02Can you sign that?

04:03It's an optional bill.

04:04It's totally at my option.

04:05They pass it totally at my option and to terminate totally at my option.

04:10And I'm looking at it very strongly.

04:12Yesterday, .

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