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President Trump warned Tuesday that Americans “could be” involved in the Russia-Ukraine war if it were to escalate to “World War III.”
“We want to get it over with,” Trump said of the war, in an interview with “The Ingraham Angle” host Laura Ingraham.
Trump, 78, sat down with the Fox News host at the White House hours after a lengthy call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which Putin rejected the president’s proposal of a full, unconditional cease-fire with Ukraine, but agreed to halt attacks on “energy and infrastructure.”
“Right now, you have a lot of guns pointing at each other and a cease-fire without going a little bit further would have been tough,” Trump told Ingraham.
“Russia has the advantage, as you know they have encircled about 2,500 [Ukrainian] soldiers,” the president claimed. “They’re nicely encircled and that’s not good.”
Trump suggested that his push for a broader cease-fire is rooted in keeping US forces out of a potentially larger conflict.
“Look, we’re doing this – there are no Americans involved. There could be if you end up in World War III over this, which is so ridiculous,” the president explained.
“But, you know, strange things happen,” he warned.
Trump described his conversation with Putin, 72, as “great,” noting that it lasted “almost two hours.”
“[We] talked about a lot of things toward getting it to peace,” Trump said. “We talked about other things also.”
Later in the interview, Trump brushed off a rare public rebuke from Supreme Court Justice John Roberts in response to his social media post demanding that US District Judge James Boasberg face impeachment for temporarily blocking the use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged migrant gang members.
“Well, he didn’t mention my name in the statement. I just saw it quickly. He didn’t mention my name,” Trump said of Roberts’ Tuesday statement.
“But many people have called for his impeachment. The impeachment of this judge. I don’t know who the judge is, but he’s radical left,” the president said of Boasberg, arguing that removing criminal migrants and alleged gang members is “a presidential job … that’s not for a local judge to be making that determination.”
