Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump appeared to suggest that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky started the Russia-Ukraine war, which was started by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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00:00Have you spoken to President Zelensky, sir, about his offer to purchase more
00:04Patriot missile batteries?
00:05Oh, I don't know. He's always looking to purchase missiles, you know.
00:08He's against... Listen, when you start a war, you've got to know that you can win the war, right?
00:13You don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size
00:16and then hope that people give you some missiles.
00:20If we didn't give them what we gave... Remember, I gave them javelins.
00:25That's how they won their first big battle, with the tanks that got stuck in the mud.
00:30And they took them out with javelins.
00:31They have an expression that Obama, at the time, Obama gave them sheets and Trump gave them javelins.
00:39But there's something that should have never happened.
00:43It's really a shame.
00:45The towns are destroyed. Towns and cities are, you know, largely destroyed.
00:50They have the spires, you know, the beautiful spires that go up.
00:55They say they were the most beautiful in the world in Ukraine, for whatever reason.
00:58But the most beautiful in the world, they're mostly laying on their side, shattered and broken.
01:03And most importantly, you have millions of people dead.
01:06Millions of people dead because of three people.
01:10I would say three people.
01:13Let's say Putin, number one.
01:15But let's say Biden, who had no idea what the hell he was doing.
01:19Number two, and Zelensky.
01:22And all I can do is try and stop it.
01:25That's all I want to do.
01:26I want to stop the killing.
01:28And I think we're doing well in that regard.
01:30I think you'll have some very good proposals very soon.
01:34Last part, Mr. Hattie.