Trump slams Putin as ‘crazy’ after attacks on Ukraine

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

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Tonight on The Last Word: Donald Trump condemns Vladimir Putin after Russia strikes Ukraine. Also, Trump attacks judges in a Memorial Day post. Plus, Trump escalates his fight with Harvard University. The Trump trade war undercuts American battery makers. House Republicans pass a bill that would cut Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood. And Trump delays 50% tariffs on EU goods until July 9. Amb. Michael McFaul, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Norm Ornstein, Laurence Tribe, Michigan State Rep. Joe Tate, Rep. Adam Smith, Carrie Baker, and Betsey Stevenson join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Good evening. This is a special holiday weekend edition of the last word.
0:09.1	Russia defies Trump with largest ever drone and missile attack on Ukraine.
0:14.8	That is the headline in the Wall Street Journal.
0:18.5	After Russia launched what Ukrainian officials said was the largest aerial
0:22.9	assault on the country since the war began. More than 350 drones and missiles bombarded
0:30.2	dozens of Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kiev last overnight, Saturday, killing
0:36.1	at least 12 people, including three children, according to
0:39.7	Ukrainian officials.
0:41.1	Donald Trump, who claimed he would end Russia's war against Ukraine on day one of his presidency,
0:49.0	said this about Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday.
0:53.9	I'm not happy with what Putin's doing.
0:56.0	He's killing a lot of people, and I don't know what the hell happened to Putin.
1:00.0	I've known him a long time.
1:02.0	Always gotten along with him, but he's sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don't like it at all, okay?
1:10.0	We're in the middle of talking, and he's shooting rockets into Kiev in other cities. I don't like it at all, okay? We're in the middle of talking, and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities.
1:14.1	I don't like it at all.
1:17.2	Of course, Vladimir Putin has been doing that every day since he set Russian troops to invade Ukraine on February 24th, 2022.
1:27.3	And when Vladimir Putin started that war that day,
1:31.1	Donald Trump said that Vladimir Putin is a genius. That's what Donald Trump said at the
1:37.8	beginning of Vladimir Putin launching this war. Last night, Donald Trump posted on social media that Vladimir Putin, quote,
1:46.1	has gone absolutely crazy. He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I'm not just talking
1:52.1	about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into cities in Ukraine for no reason whatsoever.
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