{"id":1007,"date":"2025-04-26T14:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T14:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:26:35","slug":"trump-putin-tapping-me-along-with-russia-strikes-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/trump-putin-tapping-me-along-with-russia-strikes-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump: Putin \u2018tapping me along\u2019 with Russia strikes on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump on Saturday said he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin may be stringing him along after the latest deadly strikes<\/a> on Ukraine, as the U.S. seeks to bring an end to the war<\/a> in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump posted Saturday<\/a> on Truth Social. “It makes me think that maybe he doesn\u2019t want to stop the war, he\u2019s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through \u2018Banking\u2019 or \u2018Secondary Sanctions?\u2019 Too many people are dying!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

His post came as the president was traveling back to the U.S. following Pope Francis\u2019s funeral in Rome and after he met briefly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The two leaders\u00a0spoke ahead of the funeral<\/a>, their first face-to-face interaction since the contentious Oval Office meeting earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The White House has not yet released details on what was discussed during the roughly 15-minute meeting.<\/p>\n

Trump’s latest remarks also come in contrast to what he said week ago, when the president insisted<\/a> “nobody’s playing me.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Trump lashed out at Putin<\/a>\u00a0after Russia launched deadly strikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. He then\u00a0expressed frustration<\/a>\u00a0on Friday with Zelensky, saying he is late to sign the minerals agreement with the U.S., nearly two months after an expected deal signing was called off.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has been\u00a0pushing for a permanent truce<\/a>\u00a0in the war in Ukraine, but top officials have\u00a0in recent days signaled<\/a>\u00a0they are\u00a0prepared to walk away<\/a>\u00a0from negotiations if the two sides don\u2019t reach a deal soon.<\/p>\n

The president began his comments on Saturday by casting blame on the media, especially The New York Times reporter Peter Baker, following his comments that\u00a0he believes Crimea<\/a>\u00a0will stay under Moscow\u2019s control as part of a\u00a0deal to end the war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what deal I make with respect to Russia\/Ukraine, no matter how good it is, even if it\u2019s the greatest deal ever made, The Failing New York Times will speak BADLY of it,” the president wrote. “Liddle\u2019 Peter Baker, the very biased and untalented writer for The Times, followed his Editor\u2019s demands and wrote that Ukraine should get back territory, including, I suppose, Crimea, and other ridiculous requests, in order to stop the killing that is worse than anything since World War II.”<\/p>\n

“Why doesn\u2019t this lightweight reporter say that it was [former President] Obama who made it possible for Russia to steal Crimea from Ukraine without even a shot being fired,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In the lengthy post, Trump went on to call the conflict former President Biden’s war and doubled down on an argument he made often while on the campaign trail \u2014 that the war wouldn’t have started if he had defeated “Sleepy” Biden in 2020.<\/p>\n

“It was a loser from day one, and should have never happened, and wouldn\u2019t have happened if I were President at the time,” he wrote. “I\u2019m just trying to clean up the mess that was left to me by Obama and Biden, and what a mess it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, in a recent interview<\/a> with Time magazine,\u00a0blamed Ukraine for initiating the war<\/a>\u00a0with Russia by eyeing a NATO membership. He also contended that Russia would be making a concession<\/a>\u00a0toward peace if it agrees not to take over Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump on Saturday said he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin may be stringing him along after the latest deadly strikes on Ukraine, as the U.S. seeks to bring an end to the war in Eastern Europe. \u201cThere was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump posted Saturday on Truth Social. “It makes me think that maybe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}