Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) repudiated President Trump over his approach to ending the war in Ukraine, labeling the U.S. president the modern-day Neville Chamberlain.
“Putin-pawn Donald Trump is cementing himself as the Neville Chamberlain of our time,” Schumer wrote in a post on the social platform X.
Chamberlain, the World War II-era British prime minister, is known for his failed policy of appeasement. He met with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1938 and agreed to let Germany annex the Sudetenland in the hope of staving off a larger war. The following year, Nazi Germany invaded Poland.
The top Senate Democrat has long hammered Trump for what he views as too soft an approach to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Trump met in Alaska last month to discuss the prospects