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Critics slammed President Donald Trump on Sunday after a significant new retreat on one of his biggest campaign promises: ending the war in Ukraine.
Trump vowed repeatedly that he would put a stop to the fighting on or even before his first day in office.
But with the war still raging ― and Russia launching a massive new assault on Ukraine over the weekend ― the president on Sunday fired off a message on social media blaming everyone else.
“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website, blaming Putin for “needlessly killing a lot of people.”
“I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!” Trump warned.
He also slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former U.S. President Joe Biden.
“President Zelenskyy is doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does. Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop,” he said. “This is Zelenskyy’s, Putin’s, and Biden’s War, not ‘Trump’s,’ I am only helping to put out the big and ugly fires, that have been started through Gross Incompetence and Hatred.”
Trump also railed against Putin when he spoke with reporters on his way back to the White House on Sunday evening.
“I’m not happy with what Putin’s doing. He’s killing a lot of people and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin,” he said. “We’re in the middle of talking and he’s shooting rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don’t like it at all. I’m surprised, I’m very surprised.”
During the campaign, Trump claimed he would end the war immediately on taking office ― and perhaps even earlier.
“I would fix that within 24 hours, and if I win, before I get into the office, I will have that war settled,” Trump said in 2023. “100% sure.”
He walked that back after winning the election.
“I hope to have six months,” Trump told reporters at a news conference in January, before taking office. “I hope long before six months.”
Trump’s critics hit back at his latest message on the war ― and reminded him of his promise to end it:
It’s not Zelensky’s war or Biden’s war or Trump’s war.
It is Putin’s war.
Why can’t Trump simply say that? Why is he obsessed with blaming everyone else? It is a simple and obvious truth that should be stated with moral clarity.
But the US president is a liar and a coward.
Authoritarian dictator acts the same way he has been for the 25 years he’s been in power and our 2 term president of the United States is surprised. https://t.co/aDeaZoz4jw
— mike (@lntelligencia) May 26, 2025I thought he’s ending the war in one phone call 📞
— George (@GeorgeGodwin101) May 26, 202520 Years Of Free Journalism
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