Just over a week ago, Donald Trump suffered a crushing defeat in this year’s midterm elections.
But now the American president is once again stirring strong emotions — after going after Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Throughout the year, Donald Trump was convinced he would achieve a clear victory in the midterm elections. But when the results came in just over a week ago, it was not only a major personal defeat. The Democrats reclaimed the majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The president was recently interviewed by Ross Douthat to discuss, among other things, the major political defeat. But Trump also took the opportunity to direct attention toward someone else entirely. A clip from the interview that has gone viral on the platform X discusses Ukraine and Russia.
Donald Trump’s statements about the war in Ukraine
During the interview, Trump says there is an “enormous hatred” between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The president was then asked whether it is not, after all, more understandable from Zelenskyy’s perspective, given that his country was invaded.
“– Yes, it is, but during their first meeting, great disrespect was shown toward Russia, so I’m not going to say anything, the”Well, it is, but when they had their first meeting there was great disrespect shown to Russia, so I’m not going to say anything,” Trump said according to Irish Star, and added, “The war never happened during my four years, and it was never going to happen, even though it was the apple of President Putin’s eye.”
Trump accuses Zelenskyy of showing “great disrespect” to Russia https://t.co/TCFmNF0Dby
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 9, 2026
The enormous outrage against Donald Trump
The clip has since gone viral and many are directing harsh criticism at Trump’s remarks. Many feel he was far too disrespectful toward Zelenskyy.
One person posted on X, “Ukraine was attacked by Russia and you are upset the President of Ukraine disrespected your friend Putin?” while another added, “Why TF would Zelenskyy show respect for Putin and Russia.” While another angry netizen wrote, “trump has no core empathy or sense of judgement. he is his own pathetic person and luckily for him his con fooled allot of people thinking he is someone, he is not even close to being.”
Trump called Zelenskyy “Putin”
This is of course far from the first time Donald Trump has found himself in hot water when it comes to statements about Zelenskyy. When they met this summer during the summit in Ankara, Trump made a major blunder.
When Trump was about to mention Zelenskyy by name, the president called him Putin instead.
“Do you have a question for President Putin?” Trump asked the press corps.
Trump hastily tried to get the press corps to forget his slip during the press conference, after several people pointed out the mix-up. “Questions for President Putin, not for Zelenskyy. What do you want to ask him, because I’ll put that question to him”, he said.
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