'Not going in the right location': Trump 'very angry' as Putin vows to 'finish off' Ukrainian troops

30 March

Donald Trump with Russian President Vladimir Putin in June 2019, Wikimedia Commons

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President Donald Trump on Sunday said he’s “very angry” and “p————— off” at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call for a "transitional administration” in Ukraine as the U.S. president pushes Russia and Ukraine for a ceasefire.

Putin on Friday “vowed his army would ‘finish off’ Ukrainian troops,” Agence France-Presse reports.

“The renewed call to essentially topple Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy was the latest demonstration of the Kremlin leader's long-standing desire to install a more Moscow-friendly regime in Kyiv,” AFP reports.

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“Putin also issued a public call for Ukraine's generals to topple Zelenskyy, whom Putin has repeatedly denigrated, without providing any evidence, as a neo-Nazi and drug addict,” AFP adds.

Trump, in a phone call with Meet the Press’ Kristen Welker on Sunday, said he was “very angry” and “p————— off” by Putin’s posture towards Zelenskyy. According to the report, Trump told NBC News Putin is “not going in the right location” with his remarks.

“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trumps said.

“That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t dobusiness in the United States,” Trump added. “There will be a 25 percent tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil.”

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Trump made the media rounds over the weekend, speaking in a separate interview Saturday with NBC News.

“During the interview, Trump also threatened ‘bombing’ and ‘secondary tariffs’ on Iran if the country did not make a deal with the U.S. to ensure it did not develop a nuclear weapon,” NBC News reports.

“If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing,” Trump said Saturday. “It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.”

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