US President Donald Trump spesks during a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Friday. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
President Donald Trump made multiple false claims to the press during a Friday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House – including a long-debunked claim about the war in Ukraine.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine
Trump repeated his previous fake history about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, saying that Russia failed to win the war in a mere week because it decided to invade through muddy ground rather than simply using highways.
“They got stuck in the mud. They would’ve been in Kyiv very quickly. They were heading to Kyiv,” adding moments later, “That was a very intere