Trump: "Putin is just playing along with me, we need to deal with him differently"

April 26 2025 53 048 40

US President Donald Trump, in a statement on the Truth Social platform, sharply condemned the New York Times and one of its leading journalists, Peter Baker, accusing the publication of bias and distortion of the situation around peace initiatives to resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

No matter what deal I make on Russia and Ukraine, no matter how good it is – even if it is the greatest deal in history – the failed New York Times will write badly about it.

- wrote Trump.

He called Baker a "biased and untalented writer," stressing that he "follows the demands of his editor" and promotes "ridiculous demands," including the return of Crimea to Ukraine.

Trump recalled that it was under the administration of Barack Obama that Russia annexed Crimea without firing a shot, while during his own presidential term, according to him, Ukraine received American Javelin anti-tank missiles, while under Obama Kyiv was “handed out sheets.”

This is Sleepy Joe Biden's war, not mine.

- Trump noted, emphasizing that if he had remained in power, the conflict could have been prevented.

He also stressed that he was seeking to "clean up the mess" that he felt Obama and Biden had left him.

Trump also commented on the recent Russian military strikes on Ukraine, saying that Russia's actions raise questions about its real intentions.

Putin has had no reason to fire missiles into civilian areas, towns and villages over the last few days. This makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war, but is just playing along with me and should be dealt with differently, through banking or secondary sanctions?

He wrote.

Trump stressed that too many people were dying and added that effective steps were urgently needed to stop the bloodshed.

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zuuukoo

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April 26 2025 17: 21

As required.
Trying to foist Minsk-3 on the Kremlin with promises to think about it someday and maybe lift some of the sanctions didn’t work out.
And I really wanted to take hold of that trusting nose with both hands again.

And no, there is nothing good about the failure of negotiations.
But with the option they pushed through it would have been even worse.
1. Ivan1978
  
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  April 26 2025 18: 59
  
  And why did you decide that "it didn't work out?" So far it's working out very well.
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3. Alex_a
  
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  April 27 2025 00: 28
  
  Yes, I agree with you. There is nothing good in the failure of negotiations, but with the option they tried to impose, it would have been much worse. But it is obvious that peace with the Ukraine that exists now is unrealistic. And our people, pursuing this line, clearly knew that there would be no peace under the current conditions. Nevertheless, negotiations were necessary. It is funny how the British were able to build a plan for communication between Zelensky and Trump. It is not Putin who is outplaying. Putin is playing fair. It is the British who are outplaying and deceiving Trump.
  1. klev72
    
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    April 27 2025 06: 40
    
    This was the strategic plan to get involved in negotiations so that the puppeteers would come out of the shadows and the Pindos would have no doubt that they are the tail of the British dog. And on this example, the rest will also become bolder in opposing the dollar, like the Chinese, for example. We are stretching the front and weakening the opponents with the inexorable pressure of the troops. We are strengthening our allies, the Koreans. We are putting pressure on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, putting forward our demands. That is how we will win.
    1. Alex_a
      
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      April 27 2025 23: 19
      
      We stretch the front and weaken the enemy under the inexorable pressure of the troops.
      
      But how to understand the 30-day truce, which now, perhaps, will be declared, which was supported by the Supreme? With the Bandar-logs.
      1. klev72
        
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        April 28 2025 08: 20
        
        There is no point in fantasizing, the ceasefire has not been declared, the SVO continues.
        
        Alex_a
        
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        April 28 2025 19: 21
        
        You contradict yourself. After all, your entire text, under which I wrote, is one big fantasy. That's why I asked you to comment on your fantasy.
        
        klev72
        
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        April 29 2025 08: 52
        
        What's the contradiction?! I'm talking about negotiations, and you're pulling a blanket over a truce! We need it as a PR campaign, 3 days is just right, especially to insure the Victory Parade, nothing more.
        
        Alex_a
        
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        April 30 2025 06: 34
        
        You see, we argue in vain. There won't be 30 days. And thank God.
Shumi2010

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April 26 2025 18: 01

there was no point in playing along with the hohols
Sarcastic realist

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April 26 2025 18: 26

Trump screwed up and backed down. In general, assistance to the Bandera regime will be increased.
1. Wandering
  
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  April 26 2025 21: 17
  
  Tell me please, will it be strengthened officially through US money? Well, that is, through Congress, like under Biden. Or in another way. And when will it be strengthened? And how will it be strengthened?
  1. Sarcastic realist
    
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    April 26 2025 22: 21
    
    Yes, it will, you'll see.
    1. Wandering
      
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      April 27 2025 09: 33
      
      Abstract. Will. I will see. How soon will I see?
      1. Sarcastic realist
        
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        April 27 2025 09: 37
        
        IMHO, in the second half of the year.
        
        Wandering
        
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        April 27 2025 09: 39
        
        Clearly understood) I really liked your answer. Everything was confirmed and clarified.
        
        Sarcastic realist
        
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        April 27 2025 15: 08
        
        That's great, I'll give it a plus.
        
        Wandering
        
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        April 27 2025 16: 21
        
        Do you play pluses and minuses? It's lovely
        
        Sarcastic realist
        
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        April 27 2025 16: 52
        
        Our whole life is a game. And you are probably gathering material for your dissertation here?
        
        Wandering
        
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        April 27 2025 21: 31
        
        Life is the wheel of samsara. Although for someone, it is the wheel of Genotba. And I realized that I am here precisely to observe the rotation of this wheel.
  2. Alex_a
    
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    April 27 2025 00: 34
    
    There will be increased aid, have no doubt. Through all possible channels, including those that do not report to the government and are not disclosed to ordinary Americans. It will be increased in the near future. The orders have already been sent. The British have clearly caught Trump and his entire administration on the hook. It is clear that the West will blame the Russians for the failure of the negotiations. Hysteria has already begun in the US press.
    And the war will end as soon as its continuation proves useless. That is when the entire Black Sea region inclusively will be ours.
  3. vi-13bk.ru
    
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    April 27 2025 08: 51
    
    Definitely wandering!!! Well, well!!!))))
2. oao
  
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  April 27 2025 00: 59
  
  This is a dead end for them. It's not for nothing that the North Koreans were officially brought into the light right now.
  1. horseradish
    
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    April 27 2025 10: 30
    
    They were pulled out in order to stop all dialogue with this American moron.
Kiril

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April 26 2025 19: 05

And Putin fired missiles at civilians? - and what business does it have on the Americans, who killed millions with air raids?
UAZ 452

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April 26 2025 20: 06

Grandpa Donald's task is to strip Ukraine and Russia bare. So the periodic "bridling" of one or the other side will continue in order to stimulate them to make ever greater concessions, not even to each other, but specifically to Trump. And there is a good chance that after some time it will "suddenly" be discovered that everything that is liquid, both in Ukraine and in Russia, belongs not even to the US, but specifically to the Trump clan. Well, he will even graciously allow the natives to continue to bleed each other. The main thing is that they do not cause damage to his property.
1. Alex_a
  
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  April 27 2025 00: 37
  
  Excuse me, but you have made up stories here that are completely in the spirit of Western readers. They, too, not knowing Russia, not knowing the history of the conflict, begin with an unconvincing thesis, and then paint such a picture that you are amazed at the imagination of its authors.
Pembo

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April 26 2025 21: 03

Putin has had no reason to fire rockets at civilian areas, towns and villages over the last few days. This makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war.

It seems Trump is starting to suspect something.
1. Vox Populi
  
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  April 27 2025 14: 42
  
  In mid-March I wrote to one of the commentators here:
  
  And are you aware that the Americans are not made of fingers either and you won’t be able to fool them for long with “nuances”, conditions and demands?!
  
  Then, at the end of March, this was confirmed:
  
  Russia is stalling for time – Trump
  ... it won't be possible to drag things out for long. The Americans are not fools and soon we will have to either agree to a truce or continue the SVO with all the ensuing consequences...
  
  At the very end of March:
  
  US won't wait forever for Russia's goodwill - Trump
  ... The bravado in the media from all sorts of political scientists, other talkers and anonymous commentators here is due to a deliberate ignorance or misunderstanding of the current situation. It seems that "at the top" they are assessing the situation more soberly and are trying to close the issue through the Americans on the most favorable terms, in order to then more convincingly declare victory. At the same time, in order to achieve the desired conditions, there is an obvious attempt to drag out time, improving their positions. But this requires a completely different pace of progress...
  1. Pembo
    
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    April 27 2025 17: 12
    
    Putin has had no reason to fire rockets at civilian areas, towns and villages over the last few days. This makes me think that maybe he doesn't want to stop the war.
    
    At the same time, in order to achieve the desired conditions, there is an obvious attempt to drag out time by improving one's positions. But this requires a completely different pace of advancement...
    
    If Putin wants peace, he could drag out time to recapture Kursk region. That it was not in Zelensky's hands. There was already a little bit left. Now we'll see if he doesn't want peace and will continue to drag it out.
dubas

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April 26 2025 21: 45

Let's see, Trump is trying to decide something, but so far it's only come out in half-hearted ways.
Gorum Murog

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April 26 2025 23: 49

Trump is once again wagging his tail for his suckers before the already obvious failure of his idea of a truce... And there is only one logical conclusion to the conflict: complete capitulation and division of the outskirts
klev72

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April 27 2025 07: 10

Trump explains in plain text that this is not His war and his goal is to close the topic of gratuitous aid to the Movnyans once and for all. What he has done as a negotiator is to show the inevitability of the situation he inherited, which he is trying to sell to us and the Movnyans at a very high price. This is also understandable, the people in the USA are waiting for this. But the gong has already sounded and a statement has been made about the US withdrawing from the negotiations if they are not given a fatter piece of the Movnyans with signatures. Our people seem to be holding the line tightly and diluting the round-the-clock strikes on the enemy with weak speeches about commitment to peace. Time is on our side. If anyone does not see this, then I hasten to remind you that our top brass has been clearly aware of this since the beginning of the conflict. And they are counting on their strength for decades of heated confrontation with their partners. Therefore, the period of 5 years of the SVO that I mentioned is quite justified. Negotiations are a screen for the military bleeding of NATO, its collapse and the defense of our interests on the scale of the Warsaw Pact. Now I think about the Movnyans that not only everyone started to have them, but we too. The stubbornness of the fanatics of the Ukrainian sect was calculated and used to concentrate the aid of the entire NATO in one point, and when it exposed its bestial essence, they began to kill them without ceremony around the clock.
KLNM

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April 27 2025 07: 40

Trump says there was no reason to fire rockets at civilian areas, towns and villages over the last few days. Why didn't Trump say a word about the Ukrainian strikes during the 30-day ceasefire, did they forget to report and inform, or is he deliberately omitting such important things?
Over 30 days, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out 107 strikes on Russian energy infrastructure facilities.
Here you have the answer and the reasons for striking not civilians but military targets, why lie to the whole world. Trump is playing his own game, harmful and shameful for the Russian Federation, it is time to advise him to step away from the negotiation process in Ukraine and to do other, as he and the State Department say, more important things in the world.
prior

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April 27 2025 08: 36

Trump is a narcissistic, selfish peacock.
And Putin looks into all his holes, what Trump will say, what he will fart, what he will blow his nose with...
Trump hasn’t even taken half a step towards Russia yet, but the Kremlin is already ready for anything, including outright constitutional betrayal.
And most importantly, with whom! With the man who is temporarily acting President of the United States.
Why temporarily? Because it's only four years.
kriten

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April 27 2025 10: 01

Trump is outraged by Russia's desire for victory. All negotiations were conducted on the terms of Russia's capitulation and the renunciation of the interests of the country, army and people. Putin made it clear that he was ready for such a deal for the sake of a meeting with Trump and concluding a deal there. Trump is not interested in what our soldiers died for, he saw the same in Putin, but now he has doubts: will Putin be able to betray the interests of the Motherland for the sake of trade with the United States?
horseradish

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April 27 2025 10: 26
The American chm... is getting all puffed up! According to his peace plan, he will allow us to have Crimea. But why not send him where a Russian man usually sends him when he starts to get on people's nerves, namely to ***!!!
horseradish

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April 27 2025 10: 28
I'm burning with shame for this jerk.
KLNM

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April 27 2025 13: 08

It is already obvious from many of Trump's statements that he is being fed fakes, both from the State Department and Macron and Starmer in conjunction with the Nazi leader. Russia is again to blame for responding with a powerful strike on Ukrainian military facilities to the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on its energy networks during the 30-day truce. Neither Trump nor the State Department even said a word about the Ukrainian strikes, as if this was what they were trying to achieve. Isn't it time to send Trump with his shitty peace plan to do other things, which they are trying to promote and foist on us too quickly, with the aim of disrupting their own and the tasks set..., to save the Bandera Armed Forces of Ukraine. to strengthen it even more, for further pressure on the Russian Federation.
Sancy

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April 27 2025 16: 25

Trump says interesting things again! He is true to himself!
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