- Trump spoke to Republican National Committee donors in Louisiana on Saturday and addressed the future of the GOP and the growing crisis in Ukraine
- He called NATO a ‘paper tiger’ and said the US can not stand by during invasion
- ‘At what point, do we say can we not take this massive crime against humanity?’ he asked. ‘We can’t let it happen. We can’t let it continue to happen’
- The ex-president caught criticism last week for calling Vladimir Putin a ‘genius’ for his plan to invade a sovereign nation — which he’s since walked back
- Trump had repeatedly disparaged NATO and threatened to leave it as president
Donald Trump suggested the United States military disguise its aircraft as Chinese property and then use those planes to ‘bomb the s*** out of Russia’ in order to foment a war.
Speaking to a crowd of wealthy donors at the Republican National Committee’s New Orleans retreat on Saturday night, the former president joked that one way to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was to distract it with a conflict with China.
He suggested taking American F-22 jets, putting ‘the Chinese flag on them and bomb the s*** out of Russia,’ according to CBS News.
‘And then we say, China did it,’ Trump added as the crowd laughed.
‘Then they start fighting with each other, and we sit back and watch.’
The former president also called Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine a ‘massive crime against humanity’ and criticized the west’s NATO alliance as a ‘paper tiger.’
‘Paper tiger’ is used to describe something that appears threatening but is significantly weaker in reality.
During his time in office Trump had repeatedly disparaged NATO, forcing aides to scramble to keep him from pulling the US out of the defensive treaty.