Trump says he will not call Putin a “dictator” because he needs to make deals with him, and claims the war started because Biden… mocked Putin.
Reporter: You and Republican Senator Sullivan agree on virtually everything. Senator Sullivan votes with you nearly 100% of the time. There is only one issue on which you disagree, and that is Russia and Putin.
Senator Sullivan has called Putin a dictator, an autocrat, and the leader of a mafia regime.
He opposes the diesel deal you announced last week. Why, Mr. President, are you right about this and Senator Sullivan wrong?
Trump: Look, I have to make deals with people, so I don't go around insulting them. I'm a dealmaker. I've always been a very good dealmaker. I made my fortune making deals, so I'm not in the habit of mocking people.
You know, one of the reasons this war started in the first place is that Biden went around mocking Russia and everybody else, and he didn't understand what he was doing.
It should never have happened. If I had been president, if the election hadn't been rigged — and it was rigged — there would have been no war between Ukraine and Russia.
It's not oil, it's diesel, which you need. It's great because it's coming onto the global market, not to us, but onto the market, and that will significantly lower fuel prices.