Trump uncorks furious rant blaming Zelensky for Ukraine war -- and not Putin

President Donald Trump on Monday published a long tirade blaming former President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago.

Writing on his Truth Social page, the president tried to brush off responsibility for the failure of his diplomatic efforts to stop the war by attacking both Biden and Zelensky.

"The War between Russia and Ukraine is Biden’s war, not mine," Trump wrote. "I just got here, and for four years during my term, had no problem in preventing it from happening. President Putin, and everyone else, respected your President! I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS WAR, BUT AM WORKING DILIGENTLY TO GET THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO STOP. If the 2020 Presidential Election was not RIGGED, and it was, in so many ways, that horrible War would never have happened. President Zelenskyy and Crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin. There were so many ways of preventing it from ever starting. But that is the past. Now we have to get it to STOP, AND FAST. SO SAD!"

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In his rant, Trump never placed any blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and who has blown off Trump's demands to halt offensive operations inside Ukraine.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump claimed that he could end the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a single day, but so far no such resolution to the conflict appears to be in sight.