BREAKING: Republican lawmakers including Thom Tillis SLAM Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff for calling Vladimir Putin a “humanitarian.”
We are really in upside-down world now…
“You talk so much about my President, President Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that,” Witkoff said to Putin in St. Petersburg. “I commend you and I thank you again.”
It should go without saying, but the man who launched a war of conquest in Ukraine, causing millions of casualties, is not a “humanitarian.” He is a mass-murdering psychopath. Similarly, Donald Trump, who started his war of aggression against Iran by bombing a girls’ school, is not a “humanitarian.” Both men will be remembered as war criminals.
“WTF, Steve?” Tillis wrote on X. “Look up the definition of ‘humanitarian.’ What an embarrassing and outrageous thing to say. You should go back to Ukraine and ask the families of the children Putin has kidnapped and murdered whether they agree your friend Putin is a ‘humanitarian.'” He also included a screenshot of the dictionary definition of the word in question.
“No. Putin is a stone cold killer,” wrote Senator John Cornyn.
“Another embarrassment,” observed Republican Rep. Don Bacon.
It’s perhaps that final remark that best describes this debacle. This is embarrassing, not just for Trump, whose cozying up to Putin and alienation of Zelenskyy have been downright nauseating, but for the United States of America as a whole. Between this soft-handling of Russia as this war wages on and our ongoing support of Israel’s horrific atrocities in Gaza, America under this President has shed even the pretense of pursuing the common good across the globe.
The White House is operating like a heavily armed gangster cartel, rubber-stamping horrors overseas and praising dictators while Trump and his cronies line their own pockets at home. We should be enraged about what’s being done in our name.