Donald Trump Jr., listens as his father President Donald Trump speaks to troops via video from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thanksgiving. (Photo: AP) Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son of US president Donald Trump, has suggested that the United States might end its support for Ukraine, The Guardian reports. He made the comments while speaking at the Doha Forum in Qatar.
Speaking about the war in Ukraine, Trump Jr said the country’s “corrupt” rich had left, leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight. He also criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying he was prolonging the war because he knew he could not win an election if it ended.
Trump Jr told The Guardian, “We hear all the rumours about what is going on when we see every licence plate in Monaco is Ukrainian the rich fled and they left what they believed to be the peasant class to fight these wars. There was no incentive to stop because long as the money train was coming and they were stealing, no one was auditing anything so there was no reason to come to peace.”
He also criticised European sanctions on Russia, saying they had raised the price of oil, which Russia could use to fund its war. “We are going to wait for Russia to go bankrupt that is not a plan,” he said, according to The Guardian.
Trump Jr added that in his experience canvassing voters in 2022, very few people saw the Ukraine war as a major issue. He said the threat of drugs, such as fentanyl, entering the US from Venezuela was a bigger concern.
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When asked if his father could withdraw from supporting Ukraine, Trump Jr said it was possible, calling Donald Trump “one of the most unpredictable people in politics”. He added that the US was no longer going to be “the idiot with the chequebook”, The Guardian reports.
Trump Jr does not hold a formal role in his father’s administration but is considered an influential figure in the MAGA movement.