WASHINGTON – He has his bromance with Vladimir Putin. But President Donald Trump’s relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy is more whiplash than kinship.
Trump’s appraisal of the Ukrainian president has been an exercise in zigzag diplomacy, deriding him one moment as a modestly successful comedian who doesn’t want peace and the next minute calling him a nice man with whom he has a good relationship.
"Did I say that?" Trump asked back in February, when reporters reminded him that just a week earlier he had mocked Zelenskyy as a dictator.
"I can't believe I said that," he exclaimed.
He said it.
