(AURN News) — President Donald Trump returned to U.S. soil this weekend after attending the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome, and spoke with reporters on the tarmac at Morristown Municipal Airport on Sunday afternoon.
Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked him for more weapons during their conversation at the Vatican. On the subject of Crimea, Trump surprisingly placed blame on former President Barack Obama and former President Joe Biden.
“Crimea was given away by Barack Hussein Obama and by Biden,” Trump said. “That’s 11 or 12 years ago. That’s a long time ago. I don’t know how he [Zelenskyy] could bring up Crimea, because that’s been a long time. Nobody brought it up for 12 years, and now they bring it up now. So I told him, you can maybe go back to Obama. Ask them why they gave it up. They gave it up without a shot being fired, by the way.”
When asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said he hopes for an end to the fighting.
“Well, I want him to stop shooting, sit down and sign a deal, and we have the confines of a deal, I believe,” Trump said. “And I want him to sign it and be done with it and just go back to life.”
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