In a speech to Republican donors, the former president quipped about how
much fun it would be to start a war between Russia and China and
expressed admiration for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

Former President Donald Trump spent the weekend joking with top GOP
donors about Russia’s war on Ukraine as the Ukrainian people continued
to fight for their lives. Trump’s latest response to Vladimir Putin’s ongoing assault was to apparently spitball ways the United States might
provoke a different national security crisis, an idea he put forward
during an 84-minute speech to Republican National Committee donors in
New Orleans on Saturday. The U.S. should “put the Chinese flag” on its military planes and “bomb the shit” out of Russia, Trump reportedly told the crowd. “And then we say, China did it, we didn’t do it, China did
it, and then they start fighting with each other, and we sit back and
watch.” The proposal drew laughs from the room at the Four Seasons
hotel, where some of the party’s top beneficiaries were gathered for a retreat, according to the Washington Post.

As you may recall, Trump appeared to be impressed by the Russian
president’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month, praising Putin’s military moves as “savvy” and “brilliant.” The response was largely out of step with the rest of his party—Washington for the most part struck a bipartisan note on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine—and the former president appeared to take note, taking a slightly harder stance against Russia’s
war in subsequent remarks. On Saturday, Trump claimed that Putin would
not have invaded Ukraine if he was still in office and proclaimed that “nobody has ever been tougher on Russia than me.” The comments seemed to
be a response to former Vice President Mike Pence, who in a speech a
night earlier, took indirect aim at Trump’s pro-Putin stance: “There is
no room in this party for apologists for Putin,” Pence told donors.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1500452679285358594
Trump on Saturday may have been trying to rewrite recent history with
vague assertions about how things would have been different under his watch—and publicly backing away from his glowing praise for Putin. But
the former president nonetheless reinforced his affection for
authoritarian leaders by spotlighting a different one: North Korea’s Kim
Jong Un. The dictator is “seriously tough,” Trump said in his speech, envying the way aides and generals “cowered” under Kim’s leadership and the “total control” he had over his staff. “I looked at my people and said I want my people to act like that,” he told the crowd.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/trump-now-spitballing-ways-to-launch-more-russian-war

What a scumbag.

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