Former President Donald Trump chastised President Joe Biden for his nuclear “Armageddon” comments at a rally over the weekend, warning the United States is “saying exactly the wrong thing” to Russia.
The 45th president has been critical of the Biden administration’s response to Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine for months and has long claimed that he would have prevented Russian President Vladimir Putin from going through with the takeover attempt, had he still been in office. His comments on Sunday, made during a campaign rally in Mesa, Arizona, are his latest thoughts on the matter, which has evolved in recent weeks with Ukraine’s significant military advances. Those gains pushed Putin to threaten some type of nuclear action, a threat Biden revealed he was taking seriously at a private fundraiser this past Thursday.
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“We have to be very smart and very nimble. We have to know what to say, what to do. And we are saying exactly the wrong thing. We’ll end up in a World War III,” Trump said at his Sunday rally, his second such event in two days.
“We must demand immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, or we will end up in World War III and there will never be a war like this,” he continued. “We will never have had a war like this, and that’s all because of stupid people that don’t have a clue. And it’s also because of the kind of weaponry that’s available today.”
As the rally was wrapping up, the former president took to his usual name-calling before expressing concern over Biden’s “Armageddon” comments. The 46th president was speaking at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Thursday night, hosted by former 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn Hufschmid Murdoch, at their Manhattan home, when he remarked that the risk of nuclear conflict has not been this high since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when John F. Kennedy was president.
Trump said: “We have a president who is cognitively impaired and in no condition to lead our country and is now casually talking about nuclear war with Russia, which would be World War III and far more devastating than any of the previous wars because of the weaponry that no one even wants to think about or discuss.”
“He’s not joking,” Biden said in his grim assessment Thursday, referring to Putin’s threats. “I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to [use] easily a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon.”
Biden also wondered about an “off-ramp” for Putin, asking, “Where does he find a way out? Where does he find himself in a position that he does not only lose face but significant power within Russia?”
Biden was far from Trump’s only target Sunday evening. Trump and GOP Senate hopeful Blake Masters, the venture capitalist he backed in a competitive primary, took repeated aim at Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ). Kelly, a former NASA astronaut, won his seat in a 2020 special election and is running for his first full term. He has polled ahead of Republican Blake Masters, especially with suburban women and independents, but the race is still expected to be tight.
“The first step to restoring public safety is defeating the radical Democrats in November, and that starts with throwing out your extreme senator, a weak man, Mark Kelly,” Trump said. “He’s tried his best to secure the border, but in fact, for the past two years, Mark Kelly has been deciding, and he’s been that deciding 50th vote to rubber-stamp every Bide-Pelosi-Schumer bill.”
He and Masters spent the evening painting Kelly as a far-left progressive, repeatedly touting his support for the Biden administration’s border policies.
Going after Republicans, Trump called on his party to reclaim what he argued was Democrats’ fabricated narrative about abortion ahead of the November midterm elections.
After reiterating that he supported the three abortion exceptions: rape, incest, and the life of the mother, which he called “very important,” the former president argued that Democrats were the “radical” ones on the issue.
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“They bring it up to [or] beyond, essentially beyond the ninth month [of pregnancy],” he said of Democrats, claiming that the Democrats were misrepresenting their own position on abortion “because they’re going to lose big on crime. They’re going to lose big on the economy.”
“They’re losing — almost everything they lose,” the 45th president argued. “They have nothing going, so they thought, maybe, when the Supreme Court voted this way, they could use that as an issue. But it turns out really, when you know about the real issue, it’s very bad. So I’ve done the best I can to explain it. What really I think you’re going to vote for this time is crime and the economy and inflation and all of the horrible things that are happening to our country.”
