The remarks from Mr. Trump were his harshest toward Mr. Putin since he was first elected president in 2016, and came as an abrupt change in public posture toward the Russian leader after months of failing to forge peace in a conflict he once boasted he could resolve in a day.
“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Mr. Trump told reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White House. “He’s very nice to us all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
The president’s disenchantment with his Russian counterpart, along with more positive recent interactions he has had with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, appeared to have driven his decision to resume sending some air defense interceptors and precision-guided bombs and missiles to Ukraine after their delivery had been halted last month.
At the time, administration officials said that the pause was necessary to assess whether the Pentagon’s weapons stockpiles were dwindling too low. Officials have not said who directed the pause.
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