Zakaria called him off for trying to explain away his errors with tweets

Trump said on Twitter he meant Putin wouldn't go if Trump were president

But Putin has already annexed Crimea and intervened in eastern Ukraine

GOP nominee said in Sunday interview Putin is 'not gonna go into Ukraine'

CNN host Fareed Zakaria called Donald Trump a 'bulls**t artist' on live television Monday, before comparing the GOP nominee to Adolf Hitler.

Zakaria blasted Trump for remarks he made on Sunday in an ABC interview, in which he said Vladimir Putin was 'not going to go into Ukraine'.

The Russian President annexed Crimea in 2014 and prompted a military intervention in eastern Ukraine that same year.

'It's ― look, you know, I have my own ideas. He's not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He's not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down,' Trump said on ABC's This Week Sunday.

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CNN host Fareed Zakaria called Donald Trump a 'bulls**t artist' on live television Monday (pictured), before comparing the GOP nominee to Adolf Hitler

Trump tried to explain away his statement in a tweet later on - a technique that Zakaria denounced as characteristic of the Republican nominee on Monday.

'When I said in an interview that Putin is "not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down," I am saying if I am President. Already in Crimea!' Trump tweeted.

But Zakaria blasted Trump's attempt to clarify his statement, saying Trump has employed the same tactic before.

'Every time it is demonstrated that Donald Trump is plainly ignorant about some basic public policy issue, some well-known fact, he comes back with a certain bravado and tries to explain it away with a tweet or a statement,' Zakaria said.

He works as the host of the Fareed Zakaria GPS on Sundays and appeared on air Monday to discuss Trump's claims regarding Putin.

'There's a term for this kind of thing: this is the mode of a bullshit artist,' Zakaria added.

'It's entertaining if the guy is trying to sell you a condo or a car. But for the president of the United States, it's deeply worrying.'

Trump (pictured at a campaign rally in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania on Monday) said on Sunday that Vladimir Putin was 'not going to go into Ukraine'

The Republican nominee then tried to explain his statement in a tweet (pictured), a technique that has become customary of Trump according to Zakaria

Zakaria then criticized some of the arguments used by Trump to rationalize Putin's annexation of Crimea.

Trump told Stephanopoulos: 'But you know, the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.'

Zakaria compared this to the rhetoric used by Hitler when he annexed parts of Czechoslovakia in 1938, according to a transcript by the Huffington Post.

'It is important to understand that the argument that Donald Trump is putting forward about Crimea is the same argument that Adolf Hitler made about the Sudeten Czechoslovaks,' Zakaria said Monday.