Trump Brutally Rips Into Putin For Repeatedly Misleading Him: ‘The Talk Doesn’t Mean Anything’

President Donald Trump took questions from the press alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office on Monday. Trump and Rutte discussed the U.S.’s new hardline against Russia in Ukraine, including sending additional weapons and vowing new tariffs in 50 days if Vladimir Putin doesn’t end the war.

“How did you deliver this news to Putin, sir? How did you tell Putin this was coming?” an off-camera reporter asked Trump.

“I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done,” Trump replied, adding, “And I always hang up and say, ‘Well, that was a nice phone call.’ And then missiles are launched into Kyiv or some other city. And I said, ‘Strange.’ And after that happens three or four times, you say the talk doesn’t mean anything.”

“My conversations with him are always very pleasant. They say, ‘Isn’t that good?’ Very lovely conversation. And then the missiles go off that night. I go home, I tell the First Lady, ‘I spoke with Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation.’ She said, ‘Oh, really? Another city was just hit.’ So it’s like, look, he’s — I don’t want to say he’s an assassin, but he’s a tough guy,” Trump continued, adding:

It’s been proven over the years. He’s fooled a lot of people. He fooled Bush. He fooled a lot of people. He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden. He didn’t fool me, but what I do say is that at a certain point, you know, ultimately talk doesn’t — talk. It’s got to be action, it’s got to be results, and I hope he does it. It’s potentially such a great country to be wasting so many people on this and the money. And look at what’s happened to his economy.

Look at what has happened. So… It was a threat in 50 days. The economy will be hit very hard. I mean, look, I hope he’s going to do it. He knows the deal. He knows what a fair deal is. If there is such a thing as fair, there’s no winners here. This is a loser. He’s a loser. And I dealt with him from the beginning, and it wouldn’t have happened, but I will say Ukraine was the apple of his eye.

We talked about it. It was the apple of his eye, but it wasn’t going to happen. And he understood that. It wasn’t gonna happen. And then I noticed, after I was out, I noticed soldiers forming at the border. And then, I heard horrible, stupid things being said from the other side. And I said they’re really handling it very, very wrong. It’s a shame.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.