Associated Press
President Donald Trump made it clear he is losing patience with Vladimir Putin, leveling some of his sharpest criticism at the Russian leader as Moscow pounded Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles for a third straight night.
“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!” Trump wrote in a social media post on Sunday night.
Trump said Putin is “needlessly killing a lot of people,” pointing out that “missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever.”
The attack was the largest aerial assault since Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country in February 2022, according to Ukrainian officials. At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured.
The U.S. President warned that if Putin wants to conquer all of Ukraine, it will “lead to the downfall of Russia!” But Trump expressed frustration with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as well, saying that he is “doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does.”
“Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop,” Trump wrote on social media.
The President has increasingly voiced irritation at Putin and the inability to resolve the now 3-year-old war, which Trump promised he would promptly end as he campaigned to return to the White House.
He had long boasted of his friendly relationship with Putin and repeatedly stressed that Russia is more willing than Ukraine to reach a peace deal.
But last month, Trump urged Putin to “STOP!” assaulting Ukraine after Russia launched another deadly barrage of attacks on Kyiv, and he has repeatedly expressed his frustration that the war in Ukraine is continuing.
“I’m not happy with what Putin’s doing. He’s killing a lot of people. And I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin,” Trump told reporters earlier Sunday as he departed northern New Jersey, where he spent most of the weekend. “I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don’t like it at all. ”
A peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine remains elusive. Trump and Putin spoke on the phone this past week, and Trump announced after the call that Russia and Ukraine will “immediately” begin ceasefire talks. That conversation occurred after Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Turkey for the first face-to-face talks since 2022. But on Thursday, the Kremlin said no direct talks were scheduled.
The European Union has slapped new sanctions on Russia this month in response to Putin’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire. But while Trump has threatened to step up sanctions and tariffs on Russia, he hasn’t acted so far.
7 comments
Ocean Joe
May 26, 2025 at 11:30 am
“Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop,” Trump wrote on social media.
Mr. Trump, please follow your own advice.
TJC
May 26, 2025 at 12:04 pm
Trump says of Putin, “…but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people and I don’t like it at all. ”
Hopefully one of Trump’s aides will summon up the courage to take him aside and let him know that’s not news, it’s been going on for over three years now.
TJC
May 26, 2025 at 12:36 pm
“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!”
That’s Trump telling his followers that Putin used to be a regular guy — albeit a guy who locked up and tortured Russian citizens who spoke out against him, a guy who had political enemies murdered all over the globe, a guy who had already invaded Ukraine in 2014 and killed thousands — and he admired Putin as a “strong leader” and they were good pals who enjoyed a “very good relationship.” But now Putin is “crazy” because, well, he didn’t stop killing people when Trump finally told him to “Stop!” last month.
Trump won’t call Putin a murderer, or immoral, or evil, because those attributes have been on open display for many years, so it would be odd to suddenly recognize them, but he will call Putin “crazy” to indicate — to insist — that something has changed, the guy never used to act like he’s acting today. And Trump’s followers, the “base,” will say “Hey, yeah, we see what you mean. Yeah, the guy has gone off his rocker. Killing people! Needlessly!”
And Trump will have supplied an excuse for Putin’s continued aggression against Ukraine — “crazy” people, after all, don’t have any control over what they’re doing — and an excuse for himself to walk away from his promise to end the war quickly, because who can make a deal with a “crazy” person? It would be crazy to do that, wouldn’t it.
Earl Pitts American
May 26, 2025 at 12:57 pm
We are gonna have to “Take Putin Out” the same way we took the OBiden Sadministration out.
Earl Pitts American
Bill
May 26, 2025 at 1:25 pm
When Biden was in the WH everyone said that if Trump had been President none of this would have happened ’cause he’s a tough guy and they’re all afraid of him. Now that he’s in the WH and basically a global laughingstock, it’s crickets. Funny how that works isn’t it?
PS: Nice Memorial Day message. Nothing says Thank you for your Service like calling people scum. Very Presidential indeed.
Earl Pitts American
May 26, 2025 at 6:15 pm
Hush Bill,
This is a place where Sage Florida Patriots come to comment on things of a MAGA nature.
You, Bill, would be more at home spouting your “Dook 4 Brains Leftist Retoric” over there at the WAPO or the @ss Press [FKA The Associated Press].
Run along now, Bill, and Dont Let The Screen Door hit ya, Bill, on the “Split Where You Sit”.
Buh Bye Bill,
Earl Pitts American
EARL PITTS AMARICAN
May 26, 2025 at 8:51 pm
Bill, FYI, while you may be a “Dook 4 Brains Lefty” who voted for “Scrumpy Rumpey Kammie”.
However, Bill, while you are under investigation, as normal, you may Relax Your Sphincter, secure in the knowledge that I, EARL PITTS AMARICAN, will not allow you, Bill, to be deported to either GITMO or that El Salvador prison.
Thanks Lefty Bill
EARL PITTS AMARICAN