Eldest son of Donald Trump makes speculative comments during tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EU

Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.

In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.

Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration, but is a key figure in the MAGA movement. His intervention reflects the antipathy among some inside the Trump team towards the Ukrainian government, and comes as Trump’s negotiating team is putting pressure on Kyiv to give up territory.

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    7 hours ago

    It’s sad that the President of the United States of America’s cocaine addicted son is given the opportunity to make opinion statements to the public.

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      Literally. They are collecting Russian kickbacks on one side, and collecting ransom payout on the other.

      Meanwhile Ukrainian citizens are being murdered by an expansionist aggressor and our own nation is trying to twist the narrative so that it’s a “war between two leaders” so that it seems petty and pointless to US citizens.

      And the worst part is our collective attention spans are so low, that this actually works. We have a collective attention span of only a couple years, anything past that is now forgotten in the endless haze of scrolling and sensationalism.

      Exit polling after Trump was elected to his second term revealed this basically. People said they didn’t know if there was a meaningful difference between the candidates and many people just voted for whoever seemed “more genuine” and while they weren’t necessarily wrong that Trump is a more “genuine” person than Harris, it still meant that most people had forgotten what Trump’s first administration was like, just four years prior.

      In fact, in conversations with people, I’m more and more baffled and horrified how many people don’t have strong memory anymore. Things we did a year ago together have become fuzzy and lost, anything before that seems to be almost non-existent unless it made a huge impact. The epidemic of scrolling for dopamine hits is impacting our shared memory of reality.

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      9 hours ago

      This will be known in history as the Great Betrayal. What a disgrace Trump is to the USA.

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          I wouldn’t say that, I know very well how brutal they could be and were in Asia and South America, but it’s also true that they have proven to be reliable allies for Europe on several occasions. In my country, Portugal, we probably wouldn’t have had a democracy without their support. Not everyone in the various governments was good, of course; Kissinger, for example, wanted to invade the Azores, cut aid to Portuguese socialist (PS) and social democratic (PSD) parties and leave behind a failed communist dictatorship in Portugal as an example to discourage the Western European left. But overall, I would say that, for a relatively long period, American influence and partnership were positive in Europe.

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    19 hours ago

    EU: Okay so we’ll stop buying US munitions to send to Ukraine.

    US: “No wait no like that…”

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    In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.

    If this was true (it isn’t) he is saying that the US should stop supporting the less we’ll off because the corrupt people left. He is saying we should only support a country while the corrupt wealthy people are still there.

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    1 day ago

    Can someone please tell me what his official government position that warrants his comment or the validity of it?

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    What the fuck would Don Jr know about the peasant class or anything about war fighting? He would not have shit if he were not a nepo hire.

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        And meanwhile China is doing its best to have Russia submit to them. So in the end Xi is using Putin as a hand puppet to get Trump to do what Xi wants. That’s a weird influence game.

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          china is halfway there, buying up siberias natural resouces, and russia utterly dependant on china for trade. russia is nothing more than a vassal state, much like NK is. china likes to have its buffer states against its perceived enemies. pakistan against india(friends with benefits since they helped pakistan developed thier nukes), russia against the west, Nk AGAINST its asian neighbors.

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      Because he’s been on Russia’s payroll for a while (and likely his dad too), so like a stopped clock being right twice a day, when Don Jr. suggests that the US is thinking about not supporting an enemy of Russia, it might be worth thinking there’s some truth to it.