U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 8, 2025. <\/p>\n
Kevin Lamarque | Reuters<\/p>\n
President Donald Trum<\/a>p said Tuesday that he was “not happy” with Vladimir Putin<\/a> over the ongoing war on Ukraine<\/a>, and accused the Russian leader of throwing ‘bulls—‘ at the United States in response to efforts to end that conflict.<\/p>\n “He’s killing a lot of people …. his soldiers and their soldiers, mostly, and it’s now up to 7,000 a week,” Trump said, referring to Putin during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.<\/p>\n “And I’m not happy with Putin,” Trump said. “I’m very unhappy with them.”<\/p>\n Trump’s comments came days after the Pentagon<\/a> paused a weapons shipment to Ukraine \u2014 and a day after the president said the U.S. would now “send some more weapons” to that country to defend itself from Russia.<\/p>\n Trump said Tuesday that he did not know who ordered the pause in the weapons shipment last week.<\/p>\n “Why don’t you tell me?” Trump said to a reporter, half-jokingly, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a> sat next to him.<\/p>\n Trump, as he has repeatedly done in the past, suggested Tuesday that actions by his two Democratic predecessors in the White House, Joe Biden<\/a> and Barack Obama<\/a>, were to blame for Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n Read more CNBC politics coverage<\/p>\n Trump said that the war “turned out to be tougher” than Russia might have expected, in large part because of military equipment provided to the Ukrainians by the United States.<\/p>\n “That was a war … that should have never happened, and a lot of people are dying and it should end,” Trump said.<\/p>\n “We get a lot of bulls— thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said.<\/p>\n “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”<\/p>\n Trump and Putin last spoke by phone on July 3, a call the White House said lasted for nearly an hour. <\/p>\n Later in the day, he told reporters the call was a disappointment. <\/p>\n “I’m very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin, because I don’t think he’s there,” Trump said en route back to Washington after a visit to Iowa.<\/p>\n “I don’t think he’s looking to stop” the war in Ukraine, said Trump. “And that’s too bad.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[11744,76,81,77,69,3350,82,50,80,273,67,132,68,274],"class_list":{"0":"post-49589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-breaking-news-politics","11":"tag-business-news","12":"tag-donald-j-trump","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-foreign-policy","15":"tag-joe-biden","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114819500896535703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}