White House Deputy Spokesman Andrew Bates called former US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “disgusting pigs who fear what America stands for.”
Two nauseating, fearful pigs who hate what America stands for and whose every action is driven by their their own weakness and insecurity, rubbing their snouts together and celebrating as innocent people lose their lives. https://t.co/GrZcOzXJ8g
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) February 24, 2022
Deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates called former president Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “nauseating, fearful pigs what America stands for”.
Mr Bates’ broadside in a tweet posted on Thursday, came as he shared a HuffPost article that featured quotes from a speech Mr Trump gave on Tuesday night, at Mar-a-Lago praising the Russian leader as “pretty smart” for “taking over a country for $2 worth of sanctions.”
“He’s taking over a country, really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, just walking right in,” Mr Trump said.
The former president’s comments came as Russia began a full-scale military assault on Ukraine that has already left scores of people dead and countless more fearing for their safety in what is already one of the biggest military conflicts in Europe since the end of the second World War.
Reports this afternoon suggest that Russian forces are preparing to try to capture the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and have already today captured the nearby Chernobyl area after heavy fighting.
