Trump on Zelensky, Putin and Ukraine's Strikes on Russian Oil Refineries

And Ukraine, this report today, they have resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries. Diesel, uh, is extremely high all over the world.

I thought you asked President Zelensky not- I did ... to do that anymore.

I did. Zelensky's a, not a good guy for us to deal with. Biden gave him hundreds of billions of dollars, um, billions and billions of dollars worth of equipment.

Have you lost faith in him? Well, I think they're gonna e- they're gonna end up with a settlement of some kind.

They're not gonna do it with him. He doesn't wanna settle.

Uh, he says he wants to settle, but he doesn't.

No, I'm not a, I'm not a big fan of Zelensky.

They've destroyed that country. That country...

Look, it really began with Barack Hussein Obama when they made them give up Crimea.

Mm-hmm. Crimea's the most valuable part, by far, of Ukraine.

Yeah. You know what I'm talking. It's- And on the Black Sea ... four sides of ocean.

Right. Most beautiful piece of land. I'm a real estate developer.

I know- Sure ... I know good land. Yeah.

They gave up Crimea. But, uh, where it happened in a little bit more modern time is when, uh, Zelensky went to see Putin, and they had a very bad meeting. And as you know, Putin hates Zelensky, and Zelensky hates Putin. And when you have that kind of hatred, it's very hard to get something settled.

But that's a war that should have never started.

Does that end before you leave? If the election weren't rigged, if the US election would have ri- weren't rigged, that would have never happened. That war would have never happened.

That's the saddest part. But then it was supposed to be a very much qui- you know, very quick war.

Right. And if you remember, the tanks going up the highway right into Kyiv, had the general, who was obviously a not a very good general, not made a right turn into farmland, which was soaked and soaking wet from the heaviest rain in 10 years, they say.

Mm-hmm. He went right up into the mud, and it was like quicksand.

And those tanks, so they got, I guess, I don't know if you'd call it lucky or not lucky, frankly, 'cause it's been five years, and Ukraine has lost a tremendous... You know, Ukraine has lost so many of its men, and Russia too, but Russia's a massive country.

Russia has millions of people to lose. Yeah, 150 million people. Does that war end before you leave office?

Uh, it should end soon. I think they actually both would like to see it end. But I think, I find Zelensky to be more difficult to deal with than Putin.

Okay.