U.S. President Donald Trump described Crimea as a "wonderful land, wow!, huge, surrounded on four sides by the Ocean," stating "I am a real estate expert," according to an X post by user @silupescu shared over the past hour from 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. UTC on December 9, 2025. The post quotes Trump's remarks on Crimea and references the book "The geographer who drank the globe" by Alexei Ivanov in relation to the description. No official White House statement confirmed the remarks during the reporting window.
