Trump lashed out after the Ukrainian president said Trump was being influenced by Russian disinformation.
By Aamer Madhani, Jonathan Cooper, Associated Press
President Donald Trump called Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator without elections,” lashing out after the Ukrainian president said Trump was being influenced by Russian disinformation as he moves to end the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine on terms that Kyiv says are too favorable to Moscow.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump called Zelensky “a modestly successful comedian” who talked the United States into spending billions of dollars “to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start.”
Trump said Ukraine would not be unable to end the war without his help.
Trump’s post comes a day after he suggested in a news conference that Ukraine should hold elections as part of a peace plan.
Zelensky was elected president in 2019 after a career as an entertainer.
He resisted pressure to leave the country when Russia invaded in 2022, mounting a defense that protected the capital, Kyiv.
Zelensky accused Trump earlier Wednesday of living in a Russian-made “disinformation space.”
