“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius,’” Trump said, narrating his experience of watching the Ukraine crisis unfold on TV. “Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. So, Putin is now saying, ‘It’s independent,’ a large section of Ukraine. I said, ‘How smart is that?’ And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force … We could use that on our southern border.”
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2022/2/22/2081759/-Setting-the-bar-for-the-rest-of-the-GOP-Trump-praises-Putin-s-genius-in-annexing-parts-of-Ukraine