Eldest son of Donald Trump makes speculative comments during tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EU

Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.

In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.

Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration, but is a key figure in the MAGA movement. His intervention reflects the antipathy among some inside the Trump team towards the Ukrainian government, and comes as Trump’s negotiating team is putting pressure on Kyiv to give up territory.

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    6 days ago

    It’s sad that the President of the United States of America’s cocaine addicted son is given the opportunity to make opinion statements to the public.

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      Literally. They are collecting Russian kickbacks on one side, and collecting ransom payout on the other.

      Meanwhile Ukrainian citizens are being murdered by an expansionist aggressor and our own nation is trying to twist the narrative so that it’s a “war between two leaders” so that it seems petty and pointless to US citizens.

      And the worst part is our collective attention spans are so low, that this actually works. We have a collective attention span of only a couple years, anything past that is now forgotten in the endless haze of scrolling and sensationalism.

      Exit polling after Trump was elected to his second term revealed this basically. People said they didn’t know if there was a meaningful difference between the candidates and many people just voted for whoever seemed “more genuine” and while they weren’t necessarily wrong that Trump is a more “genuine” person than Harris, it still meant that most people had forgotten what Trump’s first administration was like, just four years prior.

      In fact, in conversations with people, I’m more and more baffled and horrified how many people don’t have strong memory anymore. Things we did a year ago together have become fuzzy and lost, anything before that seems to be almost non-existent unless it made a huge impact. The epidemic of scrolling for dopamine hits is impacting our shared memory of reality.

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    7 days ago

    EU: Okay so we’ll stop buying US munitions to send to Ukraine.

    US: “No wait no like that…”

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      6 days ago

      This will be known in history as the Great Betrayal. What a disgrace Trump is to the USA.

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    7 days ago

    What the fuck would Don Jr know about the peasant class or anything about war fighting? He would not have shit if he were not a nepo hire.

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    my neighbors are refugees from ukraine. while personally they are douchebags whose love of small engines and car repair means the alley between our house (my bedroom) and their apartment contains a tire machine, air compressor, and eight snow blowers… two motorcycles on the porch and four cars in a 2 car driveway… I worry they’ll get booted back to ukraine and war if trumps nonsense pulls the rug from under them.

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      Because he’s been on Russia’s payroll for a while (and likely his dad too), so like a stopped clock being right twice a day, when Don Jr. suggests that the US is thinking about not supporting an enemy of Russia, it might be worth thinking there’s some truth to it.