THE US President’s eldest son has labelled his father “unpredictable”, claiming Trump may walk away from a deal to bring peace to Ukraine.
Donald Trump Jr went as far as saying the bloody war between Kiev and Moscow was not a priority for Americans.
It comes as Moscow launched a “massive” combined air strike on infrastructure in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, causing power and water outages early Sunday morning.
Speaking in his capacity as a business leader in Doha today, Trump Jr spoke bluntly about his feelings for his father’s diplomatic efforts around the world.
He said there were far bigger “clear and present dangers” to the US than the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and that Americans “don’t have the appetite” for endless overseas wars.
When asked directly if he believed his father would walk away from Ukraine he said: “I think he may, what’s good about my father and what’s unique about my father is you don’t know what he’s going to do. He’s unpredictable.”
He added: “He’s the most unpredictable person, probably in the history of politics. Which is why he’s able to get something done. We’ll see.”
The comments are a change of tune from other high profile leaders within the Trump administration, who have been boasting that peace is just weeks away.
On Thursday, Trump’s right-hand-man JD Vance said: “I think there’s hope – should hopefully be some good news the next few weeks on that front.”
And Keith Kellogg, US special envoy to Kyiv and Moscow, said that efforts to resolve the conflict were in the “last ten metres to the goal”.
The two sticking points to remain, according to Kellogg, are the future of the Donbas and Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
He stressed that “we’re really, really close” to a peace deal.
“If we get those two issues settled, I think the rest of the things will work out fairly well,” the special envoy added.
Trump and the US have been working to seal a peace deal with a week of globe-trotting talks from Moscow to Miami.
President Zelensky said he had a substantive phone call with American officials engaged in peace talks with a Ukrainian delegation.
Delegates from both sides met in Miami on Saturday for a third straight day of talks.
Zelensky said: “Ukraine is committed to continuing to work honestly with the American side to bring about real peace.”
He said that the parties agreed “on the next steps and the format of the talks with America”.
President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner have been meeting top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov and Andrii Hnatov, the chief of staff of Kyiv’s armed forces.
Washington said the two sides agreed that “real progress” would depend on Russia‘s willingness to end the war.
They also “agreed on the framework of security arrangements and discussed necessary deterrence capabilities to sustain a lasting peace”.
Zelensky said he expected that the results of previous meetings with the US in Geneva, which took place two weeks ago, would now be “hammered out”.
But meanwhile – Putin vowed he would seize eastern Ukraine by force if no peace deal was found, just days after also threatening he was “ready” to fight Europe.
“Either we liberate these territories by force, or Ukrainian troops will leave these territories,” Putin told India Today, after he was hailed like a GOD in India before the state visit.
