President Trump early Thursday morning issued a warning to former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev after he criticized Trump’s international coverage, telling him to “watch his phrases.”
“I don’t care what India does with Russia,” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “They will take their lifeless economies down collectively, for all I care. We’ve got executed little or no enterprise with India, their Tariffs are too excessive, among the many highest within the World.”
“Likewise, Russia and the USA do virtually no enterprise collectively. Let’s maintain it that manner, and inform Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s nonetheless President, to observe his phrases. He’s getting into very harmful territory!” the president added.
Since returning to workplace in January, Trump and his administration have pushed for an end to the greater than three-year-long warfare between Russia and Ukraine, with out a lot success. At occasions, the president has aired frustration with each side over lack of progress on a ceasefire settlement, regardless of a number of rounds of peace talks.
Earlier this month, he gave the 2 nations a 50-day deadline to succeed in a deal, threatening Russia and its allies, together with India, with increased sanctions.
Trump reupped the push Wednesday, saying he would impose a 25 p.c tariff on India as a penalty for buying Russian navy gear and fuel.
He additionally signaled he could shorten the timeline — which now falls in early September — for the Kremlin to comply with a peace deal and finish its onslaught on Ukraine, which has largely been on board with ceasefire proposals.
The president additionally mentioned Monday, throughout a sit-down dialog with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland, that he may begin imposing sanctions on Russia in “about 10 or 12 days.”
Medvedev, in response, knocked Trump for “enjoying the ultimatum sport.”
“Trump’s enjoying the ultimatum sport with Russia: 50 days or 10… He ought to keep in mind 2 issues: 1. Russia is not Israel and even Iran. 2. Every new ultimatum is a risk and a step in the direction of warfare,” Medvedev wrote on social platform X. “Not between Russia and Ukraine, however along with his personal nation.”
“Do not go down the Sleepy Joe highway!” he added, utilizing Trump’s nickname for former President Biden.