'This Is Treason': Donald Trump Ripped For Saying Zelenskyy Is 'More Difficult' Than Putin

Donald Trump has been accused of “treason” after launching a vicious attack on Volodymyr Zelenskyy while defending Vladimir Putin.

The US president once again expressed his frustration at the Ukrainian president’s refusal to agree a peace deal with the Russian leader while he continues to bomb his country.

Trump once claimed that he could end the war in Ukraine – which began with Russia’s invasion in February, 2022 – within a day of re-entering the White House.

Despite the president’s claims of agreeing an “energy ceasefire” between the two countries, Russia continued to bomb Ukrainian targets.

In retaliation, Zelenskyy said Ukraine would renew its attacks on Russian refineries.

In an interview on Newsmax on Thursday, Trump said the Ukrainian president was “not a good guy for us to deal with” and again suggested he should be replaced.

Trump said: “They’re gonna end up with a settlement of some kind [but] they’re not going to do it with him. He doesn’t want to settle. He says he wants to settle, but he doesn’t.

“I’m not a big fan of Zelenskyy. They’ve destroyed that country.”

Bizarrely, the president then criticised the Russian army for failing to quickly win the war following the 2022 invasion.

He said: “It was supposed to be a very quick war, if you remember the tanks going right up the highway into Kyiv.

“If the general, who was obviously not a very good general, not made a right turn into farmland that was soaked from the heaviest rain in 10 years. He went right up into the mud and it was like quicksand.

“Ukraine has lost so many of its men and Russia too, but Russia’s a massive country.”

Claiming the war “should end soon”, Trump added: “I think they would both like to see it end, but I find Zelenskyy to be more difficult to deal with than Putin.”

Trump’s apparent siding with Russia over Ukraine was condemned on social media.

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