Trump declares Atlantic Ocean diminishes importance of 'Ukrainian survival' to the U.S.

Donald Trump took a break from his criminal hush money trial Thursday to share his views on Ukraine funding and Europe's fair share of that bill in a bizarre social media post which stressed that nobody speaks on his behalf.

"I am the only one who speaks for 'ME,'" Trump declared in the text of a Truth Social Post. "GET MOVING EUROPE!"

In just 126 words, Trump touched on topics of national and international import, primarily the war in Ukraine and the presumptive Republican nominee's upcoming presidential election.

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After one House Democrat cried out Thursday for immediate aid for the war-beleaguered nation — accusing House Republicans of dragging their feet at their presidential candidate's behest and at the cost of Ukrainian lives lost daily — Trump explained his reasoning why the U.S. need not involve itself more.

"We have an Ocean between us as separation," he explained.

What Trump did not explain was why he quoted the word "me" and capitalized the words billion, dollars, ocean, country, survival, strength, crooked, incompetent and war, that latter of which he declared would never have happened had he remained in the White House.

Trump's post appeared at 1:55 p.m., just minutes before jury selection resumed in a Manhattan criminal courtroom where Trump stands accused of falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid to an adult film star.

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He used the post to declare the U.S. had delivered $100 billion more than "Europe" to the war in Ukraine.

While the Kiel Institute for the World Economy's support tracker estimates the U.S. aid total at 67.7 billion euros or about $72 billion, a CNN analysis of U.S. State Department Office of Inspector General and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget records put the number at $113 billion.

The European Union states it has put forward more than 88 billion euros, or roughly $93 billion, since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

"As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to Europe than to us," Trump said, with a caveat. "But it is also important to us!"

Trump's assertion that he could have prevented Russia's invasion was not met with blanket approval on the social media site whose publicly traded parent company bears his name.

Truth Social user @SaaraSomething called out Trump for his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and public attacks on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

"If you support a dictatorship You do not belong in the United States," they wrote. "This beautiful country was founded on a democracy with checks and balances to keep it that way."

"Just stop talking," added @ChrisTurner1. "The world would be better off."

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