Donald Trump’s meeting with American war veterans at the White House took an awkward turn on Wednesday, April 23, as he made strange comments about their injuries that have since gone viral.
😳 The Comment That Sparked Outrage
During the meeting, Trump praised the veterans for their bravery and discussed their regiments’ high number of Purple Heart awards—an honour presented to those wounded or killed in combat. But when the veterans shared their experiences of being hit while serving, Trump’s response caught many off guard.
“So, you guys got hit, huh? Pretty good. You got hit. Amazing,” he said, seemingly unfazed by the severity of their injuries.
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Trump vs Trump
It comes as a Trump vs. Trump clip, put together from an interview from his first time round in the White House.
Trump Ukraine
It comes as US President Trump says he was “not happy” about Russia’s overnight strikes on Ukraine that have killed at least 10 people in Kyiv.
“Vladimir, STOP…let’s get the Peace Deal DONE,” he said in a post on Truth Social.
It comes hours after Trump called Ukraine’s President Zelensky the “man with no cards to play”.
Ukraine’s interior ministry says that the toll from last night’s attack on Kyiv has risen to 10 dead and 90 injured after a body has been retrieved from the rubble.
Latest attacks
Ukraine’s army has confirmed that heavy shelling from Russian territory is targeting a large number of communities in the Sumy region of Ukraine near the countries’ shared border.
In its latest operation report, it said Russian attacks, including air strikes, have been hitting several areas in Kharkiv and Chernihiv.
Three more Russian strikes were reported in Kupiansk with two clashes ongoing. In Lymansk, invading Russian soldiers attacked four times.
The Ukrainian military also said its forces encountered six attacks by Russian forces in the Novopavlivka area of Zaporizhia.
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