Eldest son of Donald Trump makes speculative comments during tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EU

Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.

In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.

Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration, but is a key figure in the MAGA movement. His intervention reflects the antipathy among some inside the Trump team towards the Ukrainian government, and comes as Trump’s negotiating team is putting pressure on Kyiv to give up territory.

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    3 months ago

    Can someone please tell me what his official government position that warrants his comment or the validity of it?

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        3 months ago

        And meanwhile China is doing its best to have Russia submit to them. So in the end Xi is using Putin as a hand puppet to get Trump to do what Xi wants. That’s a weird influence game.

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          3 months ago

          china is halfway there, buying up siberias natural resouces, and russia utterly dependant on china for trade. russia is nothing more than a vassal state, much like NK is. china likes to have its buffer states against its perceived enemies. pakistan against india(friends with benefits since they helped pakistan developed thier nukes), russia against the west, Nk AGAINST its asian neighbors.

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    3 months ago

    What the fuck would Don Jr know about the peasant class or anything about war fighting? He would not have shit if he were not a nepo hire.

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    In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.

    If this was true (it isn’t) he is saying that the US should stop supporting the less we’ll off because the corrupt people left. He is saying we should only support a country while the corrupt wealthy people are still there.

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    3 months ago

    my neighbors are refugees from ukraine. while personally they are douchebags whose love of small engines and car repair means the alley between our house (my bedroom) and their apartment contains a tire machine, air compressor, and eight snow blowers… two motorcycles on the porch and four cars in a 2 car driveway… I worry they’ll get booted back to ukraine and war if trumps nonsense pulls the rug from under them.

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      I had a Ukrainian colleague who enrolled in the national guard specifically because they give you citizenship after your training and he couldn’t get kicked back like that. Now he might have to participate in the ridiculous operations this oppressive regime is now using them for :/

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        3 months ago

        the US pretending to give citizenship or safety for “help” is a tale as old as time.

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      Because he’s been on Russia’s payroll for a while (and likely his dad too), so like a stopped clock being right twice a day, when Don Jr. suggests that the US is thinking about not supporting an enemy of Russia, it might be worth thinking there’s some truth to it.

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    3 months ago

    EU: Okay so we’ll stop buying US munitions to send to Ukraine.

    US: “No wait no like that…”

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    3 months ago

    Funny, to see a member of the corrupt US oligarchy talk about corruption in other countries.