President Donald Trump unleashed a scathing series of remarks directed at Russian President Vladimir Putin after major Russian attacks on Ukraine over the weekend.
Trump told reporters that Putin “has gone absolutely CRAZY,” after the Russian leader launched the largest aerial attack of Moscow’s three-year full-scale war on Ukraine.
“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Hours earlier Trump had told reporters: “I’m not happy with what Putin is doing. He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin.”
🚨 #BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP FUMES ABOUT PUTIN
"Yeah, I'll give you an update. I'm not happy with what Putin's doing! He's killing a lot of people. And I don't know what the hell happened to Putin! I've known him a long time. Always gotten along with him. But he's sending… pic.twitter.com/Az6XpL7Dqz
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 25, 2025
The Kremlin downplayed the significance of Trump’s remarks, categorizing them as an “emotional reaction.”
“This is a very important moment, which is associated with the emotional overload of absolutely everyone and with emotional reactions,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
Fallout from the major Russian attack has also spread to US allies.
Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz said yesterday that his country and other major allies are no longer imposing any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion.
Merz has plunged into diplomatic efforts to try to secure a ceasefire and keep Western support for Ukraine intact since becoming Germany’s leader nearly three weeks ago.
On Monday, he said that “there are no longer any range restrictions for weapons that have been delivered to Ukraine — neither by the British, nor by the French, nor by us, and not by the Americans either.”