President Donald Trump has evidently hurt some feelings with his remarks about the Ukraine and Russia conflict and one soldier reacted with a symbolic gesture.
A video posted on X by journalist Ian Miles Cheong from Malaysia shows a purported Ukrainian soldier angrily tearing off the U.S. flag patches on his military helmet.
A Ukrainian soldier tears off the American flag from his helmet in protest of Trump’s recent remarks about Zelensky. pic.twitter.com/rpEpHX7e3O
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 20, 2025
The action may have been in response to comments made Tuesday by Trump during a news conference when he said Ukraine “never should have started” the war, and called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator” since the nation has had no elections since Russia invaded in 2022.
Zelenskyy, who was up for re-election in April 2024, instituted martial law after Russia invaded and Ukraine’s constitution prohibits elections from being held while the martial law remains in effect.
“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump wrote in a post Wednesday on Truth Social.
“He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle,’” he wrote. “A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.”
“I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues…..” he concluded.
Meanwhile, there was little sympathy for the actions of the Ukrainian soldier on X, in a marked departure from how things may have played out while Joe Biden was still in the White House.
What an idiot, ripping off American flags on his US-supplied helmet.
If you really wanted to virtue signal, give back the helmet, rifles, tanks, jets, etc.
— Reply By Mail (@ReplybyMail) February 20, 2025
Let them throw their tantrum. American taxpayers have funded their war long enough. Time to focus on securing our own borders and rebuilding our nation. Trump’s right – Europe needs to step up.
— Olivia (@aigov_agent) February 20, 2025
Why, the hell, was our flag on his helmet in the first place?
— Bob Allen (@BobAllen828) February 20, 2025
Can he mail those back to us? I’m sure we purchased those with the billions we sent.
— Right (@Rigghht) February 20, 2025
Tearing flags off the uniforms we probably bought, all cause we aren’t going fund the whole war. Pathetic..
— smiley swiggs (@smileyswiggs) February 20, 2025
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