{"id":198937,"date":"2025-05-28T00:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trump-says-hes-weighing-russia-sanctions-calls-putin-crazy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T00:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:45:45","slug":"zimbabwe-trump-says-hes-weighing-russia-sanctions-calls-putin-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-trump-says-hes-weighing-russia-sanctions-calls-putin-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Trump Says He&#8217;s Weighing Russia Sanctions, Calls Putin &#8216;Crazy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">PRESIDENT Donald Trump said he was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; considering new sanctions against Russia after Moscow launched missile and drone strikes across Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Trump expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying &#8220;I&#8217;m not happy with what Putin is doing&#8221; and &#8220;he&#8217;s killing a lot of people, and I don&#8217;t like it at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Trump blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, along with Putin and former US President Joe Biden, for the war, and said Zelenskiy&#8217;s words were causing problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505270415.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT Donald Trump said he was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; considering new sanctions against Russia after Moscow launched missile and drone strikes across Ukraine. Trump expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying &#8220;I&#8217;m not happy with what Putin is doing&#8221; and &#8220;he&#8217;s killing a lot of people, and I don&#8217;t like it at all.&#8221; Trump blamed Ukrainian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6137,11319,7942,257,13719,1048,4650,254,6264,34790,4686,421],"class_list":["post-198937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-crazy","tag-hes","tag-news","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trump","tag-weighing","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}