by Donald Trump’s son claimed that allegedly half of all Bugattis and Ferraris in Monaco drive on Ukrainian license plates. He also added that “the rich fled, leaving the peasant class to fight.” It sounds loud, but reality doesn’t quite align with such words.
First and most interesting: in Ukraine, throughout the history of its independence, not a single Bugatti has been registered. At all. Zero. Therefore, the story about “50% of Bugattis with Ukrainian plates” automatically falls apart even before we start looking for at least one Veyron or Chiron in our registries.
We do have Ferraris, but their number is measured in a few dozen, not hundreds. Some owners did leave after the start of the war and could have ended up in Europe. But in Monaco, the reality is completely different: Arab, French, and Swiss plates dominate there, while Ukrainian ones are more likely to be found as rare exceptions, not as half of the supercar fleet.
There’s also simple arithmetic. If there are hundreds of Bugattis in Monaco, then the claim about “50% Ukrainian” would imply the existence of approximately a hundred Bugattis registered in Ukraine. But since we have never had any such cars, the mathematical experiment quickly concludes.
The statement looks more like political hype, where facts are tailored to fit an emotional narrative. Yes, Ukrainians exported some of their expensive cars to safer countries — this is common practice for any country at war. But a massive influx of Ukrainian supercars in the principality never existed and could not have existed even theoretically.
In the end, we have a simple thing: there were no Ukrainian Bugattis, there are Ferraris, but not many, and the story about “50% Ukrainian plates in Monaco” belongs more to the genre of political fiction than to the world of automobiles. Simply put, ugh, disgusting…
Watch the video of Trump’s statement in the TopGir Telegram channel
