Key lines from Trump’s interview with Time magazine
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Accompanying his selection as Time’s Person of the Year, President-elect Donald Trump sat down with the magazine for a wide-ranging interview that published on Thursday.
Accompanying his selection as Time’s Person of the Year, President-elect Donald Trump sat down with the magazine for a wide-ranging interview that published on Thursday. The president-elect, fresh off his election victory and recognized by the magazine as its Person of the Year for the second time, touched upon a series of topics, including US policy toward Ukraine, his plans for mass deportations and the scope of potential pardons for those involved in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot. The interview was conducted on November 25. Trump said he “vehemently” disagrees with allowing Ukraine to use US-provided weapons to strike inside Russia and that by doing so, the US is “escalating this war and making it worse.” “I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that?” Trump said. “We’re just escalating this war and making it worse. That should not have been allowed to be done. Now they’re doing not only missiles, but they’re doing other types of weapons. And I think that’s a very big mistake, very big mistake.” President Joe Biden gave long-awaited authorization to Ukraine in November to use powerful US-provided long-range weapons, called Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, inside Russia. The authorization was a key request from Ukraine for months. Throughout his campaign, Trump repeatedly cast doubts on continuing US support to Ukraine and vowed to end the war once he was in office. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he wants to work “directly” with Trump and is open to his ideas on ending the war.
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