The US has too many problems of its own to hand money and weapons to Ukraine for its conflict with Russia, former US President Donald Trump has said. Trump also doubted whether even the massive levels of US assistance would change the situation on the ground in Ukraine. “Now, it’s much tougher to solve,” he said about the crisis. “Russia has 35 times the fire power. And they’re looking to obliterate the weapons as we send them in. A lot of bad things are happening,” he added.
It’s Europe that should be providing more help to Kiev as it’s far more affected by the situation, he insisted.
Speaking at the Turning Point Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida on Saturday, Trump recalled how he pushed for NATO members in the EU to increase their defense spending to 2% of their GDP during his presidency. Back then, the US was “taken advantage of by Europe,” and now the same thing is happening again over Ukraine, he said.
“We’ve so far given more than $60 billion to Ukraine. Well, the European countries, who are obviously far more affected than us, have given a tiny fraction of that number,” the ex-president noted.
If he were still in office, he “could’ve gone over there [to Europe] and said: ‘Listen, you’re going to put up the same money or more money than us.’ And they would’ve done it gladly,” Trump claimed.
“But we just give money out. And we have $35 trillion in debt. We have all of these problems,” he said, referring to record inflation in the US, the energy crisis, and other issues.
During his term, the US had “no problem” with Russia, China or North Korea, and “nobody even talked about” Ukraine, the ex-president claimed.
But in just two years under Joe Biden, the US “has gone from the strongest that it has ever been… to perhaps the weakest, especially when you include recognition and respect from all around the world. We’re not respected any longer by anybody,” said Trump.
“Two years ago we were energy independent… Now we are a beggar nation, with Biden down on his knees pleading for energy from all over the globe; going to Venezuela, Saudi Arabia. Going to countries all over the world, asking for help,” he added, Read More
TRUMP TO THE AMERICAN YOUTH: ‘YOU ARE THE GENERATION THAT IS GOING TO STAND UP AND SAVE AMERICAN FREEDOM’
President Donald Trump called on the youth of America during an inspiring speech delivered in Tampa, Florida, Saturday at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit.
“You’re the rising stars who are going to turn back the tide of American decline,” Trump said. “You are the generation that is going to stand up and save American freedom.”
He added that young people “love common sense” and touted Turning Point’s “more than 3,000 chapters” of the “smartest and bravest young conservatives in America.”
Trump applauded the organization’s patriotic students who are “on the front lines of a momentous struggle that will determine the future of America.”
The 45th president also pointed out that before he took office as president, “nobody knew how corrupt [the establishment] was – I think I taught them!”
Trump further discussed issues like the war in Ukraine, censorship, and the “climate crisis hoax.” Trump stated, “If debate can be silenced, if dissent can be suppressed, if conservative ideas can be systematically shut down, then, very simply, we do not have a free country.”
The Student Action Summit was filled to the brim with thousands of eager young patriots, with many reporting that there was standing room only in the auditorium. Trump inspired the students attending by lifting them up as “young, courageous, freedom-loving patriots of America who will once again lead the way to greatness.”
“As long as we are confident and united,” he concluded, “the tyrants we are fighting do not stand a chance.”