Trump’s ‘Ghastly’ Ukraine Spin Blasted As ‘Echoing’ Russian Propaganda

“I think I have the power to end this war and I think it’s going very well,” the president told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, after tentative peace talks were held in Saudi Arabia between US and Russia officials.

Trump then mocked, though, Ukrainian complaints that its officials weren’t invited to the negotiating table.

“Today I heard, ‘Oh, oh, we weren’t invited,’” said Trump.

“Well, you’ve been there for three years. You should’ve ended it in three years,” he added. “You should have never started it, you could have made a deal.”

Trump’s claim that Ukraine “should never have started” the conflict was quickly fact-checked on social media, where critics remembered how it was Russia — under orders of its President Vladimir Putin ― which invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, who is an expert on authoritarianism, told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that Trump’s comments were “ghastly” and “morally disgusting.”

Others agreed and accused Trump of “echoing a Russian talking point.”