Former President Donald Trump was ridiculed after telling Elon Musk that he tried to dissuade Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine.
During the Republican presidential candidate’s rambling two-hour conversation with the owner of X (formerly Twitter) on Monday, Trump recounted an attempt to show strength to the Russian president, who invaded neighboring Ukraine with tanks about a year after Trump left the White House.
According to Trump, Ukraine was “the apple of his (Putin’s) eye.”
“I said, ‘Don’t do it. You can’t do that, Vladimir. If you do, it’s going to be a bad day. You can’t do that,'” Trump recalled during his chat with Musk on X. “I told him what I was going to do, and he said, ‘No way,’ and I said, ‘Absolutely!'”
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Trump on what he said to Vladimir Putin about Ukraine:
“I said to Vladimir Putin: ‘Don’t do it. You can’t do that, Vladimir. If you do it, it will be a bad day. You can’t do that.’
And I told him what I would do.
And he said, ‘No way,’ and I said, ‘No way.'” pic.twitter.com/4VjPnFkl6i
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) 13 August 2024
The style of Trump’s speech was soon mocked by others on X.
“Trump admits he talks to Vladimir Putin like a young girl,” said one user.
And that moment was picked up on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday. The program showed clips from the movies “Wayne’s World” and “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” in which the main characters in both films alternately say “no way” and “no way.”
Host Joe Scarborough mocked Trump’s attempts at international diplomacy with a sarcastic comment about an imaginary conversation between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Russian Communist Party leader Joseph Stalin at the end of World War II.
“We could have shown the clip of FDR talking to Stalin at Yalta,” Scarborough said, referring to the February 1945 conference. “When Stalin said he was going to invade Eastern Europe, it was actually FDR who said, ‘No way,’ and then Stalin said, ‘No way.’ And that was it. The rest is history.”
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