‘You Don’t Do That!’ Trump Blames U.S. Ally For ‘Taking On’ Country That Attacked Them In New Fox Interview

President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine was to blame for the war with Russia, telling Fox News, “You don’t do that! You don’t take on a nation that’s 10 times your size!”

The president held high-stakes talks at the White House on Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders, including a series of White House photo ops. The meetings come days after Trump rolled out the red carpet for  Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin in an effort to secure a deal.

Trump called in for a lengthy phone interview on Tuesday’s edition of Fox & Friends, during which he continued to make the case that Ukraine bears responsibility for the war.

“It’s not a war that should have been started,” Trump said, before singling Ukraine out for “taking on” the country that invaded it:

EARHARDT: Mr. President, did y’all discuss any land swaps yesterday? Because we’ve talked a lot about the Donbas region.

And what was the feeling in the room?

TRUMP: Yeah.

EARHARDT: What did the other leaders say about this?

TRUMP: Well, they understand. Look, they — everybody can play cute and this and that, but you know, Ukraine is going to get their life back. They’re going to stop having people killed all over the place, and they’re going to get a lot of land.

But this was a war, and Russia is a powerful military nation. You know, whether people like it or not, it’s a powerful nation. It’s a much bigger nation.

It’s not a war that should have been started. You don’t do that! You don’t take — you don’t take on a nation that’s 10 times your size! And you know, military experts look — look, if it wasn’t for the greatest military equipment, we make the greatest military equipment in the world, and we gave them —

JONES: So —

TRUMP: — you know, whatever. They took probably a lot of money, too. But they — they had tremendous, you know, they had the Patriot missile, which is the best in the world.

All the equipment. We make the best equipment in the world by far. Everyone else is like nothing. So, we gave them a lot of equipment.

Now, with that said, the Ukrainian soldiers were brave as hell, because they’re fighting a force that’s much, much bigger, and in theory, much more powerful. And you know, it’s not like they’ve stopped. If you — I assume you’ve all seen the map, you know, a big chunk of territory is taken, and that territory has been taken.

Watch above via Fox & Friends.