Trump calls Zelenskyy a dictator
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Not content with parroting talking points from the Kremlin, Donald Trump has hardened his position on Ukraine even further. Taking to Truth Social, the US president branded Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "dictator without elections" who has done "a terrible job" for his country. He warned his counterpart in Kyiv to "move fast or he is not going to have a country left". Those words will chill European leaders, already baffled at President Trump's decision to align himself with Russia so acutely - are we witnessing the beginning of a new Russian-American axis? And where does that leave those countries in the east of Europe, who have spent decades freeing themselves from the iron grip of Moscow?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it's going very well. |
| 0:17.0 | But today I heard, oh, we weren't invited. |
| 0:18.9 | Well, you've been there for three years. |
| 0:20.3 | You should have ended it three years. |
| 0:22.0 | You should have never started it. |
| 0:23.3 | You could have made a deal. |
| 0:24.7 | I could have made it. |
| 0:25.5 | So there we have it. |
| 0:26.4 | It wasn't Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:28.2 | It wasn't Russia who started the war with Ukraine. |
| 0:32.0 | It was Ukraine, which started the war with Ukraine. |
| 0:35.6 | And that is not from Moscow. It's not from the Kremlin. It was from |
| 0:40.3 | the White House, from President Trump himself. Talking to reporters on Tuesday was to hear a version of |
| 0:48.3 | reality, a history which would have been completely unrecognisable to any other American president |
| 0:55.2 | or indeed anybody grounded in any form of reality at all. |
| 1:00.0 | Donald Trump spoke these words at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, |
| 1:05.6 | but it sounded as though every single word had been written in Moscow, |
| 1:11.5 | because these were the Kremlin's talking points. |
| 1:15.6 | Everyone may want peace right now. |
| 1:17.6 | Of course, you'd be mad not to. |
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