Trump says US has given Ukraine too many weapons in first public comments on pause in shipments

[OKIsItJustMe]

Source: Associated Press

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Updated 7:11 PM EDT, July 3, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump complained Thursday that the United States provided too many weapons to Ukraine under the previous administration, his first public comments on the pause in some shipments as Russia escalates its latest offensive.

Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a flight to Iowa, Trump said former President Joe Biden “emptied out our whole country giving them weapons, and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves.”

Air defense missiles, precision-guided artillery and other weapons are among those being withheld from Ukraine. The country suffered a new barrage overnight, with warnings of ballistic missiles followed by explosions in Kyiv. The sound of machine gun fire and drone engines could be heard across the capital.

Trump, who also spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, suggested he wasn’t completely cutting off American assistance to Ukraine.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/putin-trump-call-ukraine-iran-9b0054c655cbb3b54126bb3f2c32713c

[yourout]

1. By the end of the year Ukraine will be in Russia hand and..

Taiwan will be in China s.
Trump Will see to it

[DENVERPOPS]

6. Once again running Biden down.

Now accusing Biden of depleting our stock of Military Weapons, while at the same time pleasing the Military Industrial Complex with new orders....

I am sure Trump confers with Putin daily about what more he could be doing in favor of Putin/Russia and against Russia's enemies.....

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. United24

https://u24.gov.ua/

[Easterncedar]

3. Our weapons industry takes the hit

Unless we send the new surplus to Israel, Saudi or Iran.

[MissouriDem47]

4. Because of TACO

The United States is now an ally of the Evil Empire Russia.

[ancianita]

5. The felon is The Devil, the Prince of Lies.

[LudwigPastorius]

7. Does Bibi need those bombs to reflatten the rubble in Gaza?

[OKIsItJustMe]

10. "Make the rubble jump" - Winston Churchill (about."the blitz")

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/19/rubble/

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Indeed, at this time we saw no end but the demolition of the whole metropolis. Still, as I pointed out to the House of Commons at the time, the law of diminishing returns operates in the case of the demolition of large cities. Soon many of the bombs would only fall upon houses already ruined and only make the rubble jump. Over large areas there would be nothing more to burn or destroy, and yet human beings might make their homes here and there, and carry on their work with infinite resource and fortitude.

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[Initech]

8. God he is such a fucking moron!

[electric_blue68]

9. STFU, you Bloated Bastard! Slava Ukraini!

[electricmonk]

11. Life during wartime

from a Kyiv resident. She usually posts a couple videos a week showing what it's like there. Here's today's. Can't imagine how surreal it would be to walk your dog while drones and missiles are hitting your city. From her pinned comment: "Last night in Kyiv was one of the worst nights of this war. But thanks to the Ukrainian air defence forces, we are still surviving. What will happen now that Trump has stopped arms supplies to Ukraine is unclear. Perhaps Putin told him during their phone call yesterday that it is fashionable to have blood on your hands these days...
NGU."

Everything the orange shit-gibbon has done to Ukraine is exactly what I was afraid he would do if he became President again.

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[travelingthrulife]

12. So Putie ordered you to stop giving them weapons? Despite the rare minerals

deal with Ukraine that you were crowing about?

[republianmushroom]

13. The puppet repeating his masters words.