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© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Trump says Russian leader Putin 'has gone absolutely CRAZY!'
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HopeSpringsEternal
Meanwhile, Ukraine has been not trying to win on the battlefield, but rather relentlessly attacking Russian Airports and Moscow with drones, hence Putin's Kiev attacks are escalating.
War's an ugly business, hopefully DJ Trump can help bring it to an end soon!
wallace
Trump is clearly irate and upset about his premature statement that he would need the war quickly, and can't even bring Putin under his control and command.
lincolnman
Pure theater...
The deal between Putin and his Puppet was made months ago...
Trump would try a half-hearted peace effort, then give up - just as he admitted last week..."it isn't my problem"....after boasting he could solve it in 24 hours...
The war will continue as long as Kim and the Mullahs give Putin missiles and drones that actually work....or until another Prigozhin decides it's time for the short guy to take a long fall from an 8th story window...
Sven Asai
Has gone can be replaced by always has been.
Bob Fosse
“missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever.”
‘For no reason whatsoever.’ Shame it took him years to say this. Are maga backtracking on this now too?
nishikat
It won't be Trump. Putin is happy that Trump is president. Trump is Putin's little poodle boy! Trump is doing nothing to help Ukraine.
geronimo2006
No, nothing has happened or changed, and Putin hasn't gone crazy. He's been very consistent with his brutality and aggression, and it this is just Trump finally realizing he's been getting played. I expect Putin will play his next card soon to try to keep the US sidelined.
semperfi
I don't know, but its seems like the pot is calling the kettle black!!!
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smithinjapan
"“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!”
Uh-oh! Lovers spat? The thing is, all Putin needs to do is stroke Donald's ego, then he can go back to killing needlessly and it being "sane".
bass4funk
He is more upset that Putin is exactly what he said, irate and losing it.
nishikat
Words don't do anything to Putin. It's action which Trump is doing none of and that is why Trump is Putin's little Poodle Boy. Trump hate all countries except for Russia. It's President Putin and the submissive Trump (and his new toy airplane)
Underworld
HopeSpringsEternal
Ukraine targets are military. Russian targets are civilian.
Unlikely.
wallace
On the TV today, Trump was upset with Putin.
Mr Kipling
Important to note is that these recent drone and missile attacks by Russia follow Ukraine's biggest drone attack to date on Moscow and civilian airports. (not very successful btw) Russia is replying with an even bigger attack 3 days in a row. Do you think Zelenskyy got the message?
XCAndtheband
AKA what everyone with a functioning brain and not in a cult, has been saying the whole time.
But of course, it’s coming far too late, and all he’s gonna do is say “Vlad, staaaahp!”
Nathaw
He had long boasted of his friendly relationship with Putin and repeatedly stressed that Russia is more willing than Ukraine to reach a peace deal.
Russia is the aggressor. It is more willing than Ukraine to continue the war. Both sides have lost countless lives. Compromising the territories and delaying strategic advancement are not the answer for Putin.
For Zelensky, surrendering all territories from Ukraine likes betraying the sacrifices of fallen soldiers. However he has no more cards according Trump.
" Putin has a lot of cards. He can play all of cards until none of card will be left. By the time, Putin has no more card, Ukraine will become the history".
Trump will say "Big beautiful deal with Putin has been passed. There are no more Cats and Dogs left in Ukraine."
TaiwanIsNotChina
Wilful ignorance on the part of Trump. My guess he wants to slink away from the conflict but people keep reminding him of his duty to NATO.
Fountain
Even the way Trump writes and speaks isn’t befitting of a world leader.
Tweeting the word ‘crazy’ in capital letters, for example.
TokyoLiving
Again Trump reacting as a spoiled baby when someone is not bowing to his geopolitical whims..
US is in the hands of a big orange spoiled baby..
Bob Fosse
Such witty repartee from the butthurt.
funkymofo
Putin has played trump for years, trump is just beginning to understand- he's not so bright.
chatanista
The other side news say the large scale Russian drone attack was in response to the unprecedented UA drone attack last week. Some claim Putin's helicopter was targeted by UA drone swarm " during his visit to Kursk, if that was the case he would be fuming no doubt.
Ukraine significantly intensified its drone attacks inside Russia last week, with at least 764 drones intercepted over Russian territory between Tuesday and Friday, and hundreds more destroyed over the weekend. The helicopter carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin was reportedly caught in the “epicenter” of a massive drone raid while he was visiting the Kursk Region on Tuesday. In response, the Russian military conducted a major strike against a drone and missile production plant in Kiev on Saturday, followed by additional reported strikes on Ukrainian military facilities on Sunday. Speaking to journalists on Sunday, Trump said Russia’s response was unwarranted and said he was “surprised” by what he is seeing.
u_s__reamer
“I’m not happy with what Putin’s doing. He’s killing a lot of people.
But he's stumm on Netanyahu's killing of even more people (mostly children because the men are either imprisoned in gulags or resistance fighters sheltering in tunnels and ruins).
stickman1760
Pot calling the kettle black
bass4funk
Really? How so? If he wouldn’t be so bright, he would have gotten this far or even beaten his fiercest opponents
Wasabi
The stable genius call putin crazy, that fun. Maybe they both are.
wallace
Since Trump began his second term, he has not given any additional aid to Ukraine or imposed further sanctions on Putin.
factchecker
Hang on, he said he'd get his best bud Putin to end it on day 1. Couldn't possibly be yet another lie could it??
nickybutt
Speaking to reporters in New Jersey late on Sunday, Trump said of Putin: "I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all."
But he has no problem with Netanyahu sending American rockets into Gaza and killing thousands of men, women, children and babies. Not to mention starving them to death too.
He is clearly moraly bankrupt.
Nibek32
Trump is genuinely confused and fails to grasp that Putin only likes him and helped elect him because he divides America and ruined their reputation on the global stage. Russia is now making huge gains over America.
Putin is playing trump and he’s too narcissistic and dumb to see it.
bass4funk
I think Putin is the one who is seriously, putting himself in a political predicament he doesn’t realize the amount of attention that is about to fall on his head, and their economy already down in the dumps not to mention people are struggling in that country, it’s just a matter of time before people start to express some very serious anger, and a guy like that can’t afford to lose control of the masses.
JJE
This is Trump gently hitting the ball into Putin's court.
But notice how he unloaded on Zelensky too.
We'll see how the ball gets reciprocated but hard to imagine Putin is concerned.