Donald Trump has denied calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” – barely a week after calling him a “dictator”.
The US president stunned reporters with the bare-faced lie as he sat alongside Keir Starmer in the White House.
Trump attacked Zelenskyy in a tirade on his Truth Social account last week.
He said: “He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden “like a fiddle.” A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”
But asked by a reporter in the Oval Office if he still thinks Zelenskyy is a dictator, Trump replied: “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question.”
“Do you still think that Mr Zelenskyy is a dictator?”
“Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that. Next question,” says Donald Trump
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His comments came ahead of talks with Starmer, who wants Trump to agree to provide US military “backup” for any peace deal in Ukraine.
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Speaking to reporters on his way to Washington, the PM said: “The reason I say the backstop is so important is that the security guarantee has to be sufficient to deter Putin from coming again.
“Because my concern is if there is a ceasefire without a backstop, it will simply give him the opportunity to wait and to come again because his ambition in relation to Ukraine is pretty obvious, I think, for all to see.”
But asked directly on Thursday whether America would support British troops keeping the peace in Ukraine, Trump said: “If they need help, I’ll always be with the British. But they don’t need help.”
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