Trump melts down in deranged rant during Zelenskiy meeting
Trump melts down in deranged rant during Zelenskiy meeting
Donald Trump decided the meeting was the perfect time to list all his personal grievances.
Summary
During a heated Oval Office meeting, Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, demanding he accept a peace deal with Russia or lose U.S. support.
Trump repeatedly cut Zelenskiy off, accused him of lacking gratitude, and defended Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also ranted about past U.S. elections and personal grievances.
Following the meeting, Trump posted on Truth Social, claiming Zelenskiy “is not ready for peace.”
The U.S. and Russia recently held talks without Ukraine, raising concerns over sidelining Kyiv in negotiations.
Imagine if the future of your country and the lives of millions of people who live there all hinged on you having to fly half way around the world and be filmed trying to be polite to two gibbering morons, and not even in your first language.
Mad respect to Zelenskyy for keeping it together as well as he did TBH.
Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more embarrassed being an American.
This is a great window into how Trump, Vance and MAGA do business.
Bully. Yell. Lie. Threaten.
And the scariest part is they broadcast it all live and commented that it would make "great television". These are hateful people that have absolutely no shame. They're proud they bullied, threatened, yelled at, and lied to an ally in service of a traditional enemy.
The White House posted an edited video, so what we all saw and heard must not be real. They also just pulled infrastructure repair funding from Ukraine, and took Russia off of the cybersecurity threat list under the radar.
Every member of Congress that stands behind this is complicit as well.
I know Europeans hate us Americans and I understand why. I've never supported Trump and have fought with my dollar, vote, and time, but I am just too ashamed to show my face in the EU any time soon.
As a person from Europe living in Canada, I'd say it's not that we hate Americans, we know there are lots of nice people there and a good chunk of you hate Trump as much as we do. But unfortunately we just kind of have to treat America the country as a hostile nation right now. Given that the US government is directly threatening Canada and actively betraying Europe, there's not much choice. It just is what it is.
Disclaimer: I don't speak for all Canadians and Europeans obviously, there are some Trumpy people in Canada and Europe too for some fucking reason. But amongst the people I've spoken to about it, that seems to be the general vibe.
Most Europeans don't hate Americans and those who do are not worth being around anyway.
On the other hand... Yeah, your leadership's right now really sucks.
But if I had to wait for presentable leadership of my country to show my face abroad, I'd still be living at my parents...
Source: am Italian, grew up during Berlusconi's heyday.
Hitler on meth ranting at Mussolini vibes.
Two guys who can't keep a single speech or interview civil calling Zelensky disrespectful. LAWL
Standard abuser behavior. Deny, gaslight and project.
He's so clearly a Russian agent.
The republican at my work says Zelensky will start WW3, will not be elected next election cycle, doesn't want peace, is asking way too much, didn't even thank Trump for the meeting.
What a fucking troglodyte. Immagine being the leader of another country and having your country invaded and some feckless moron you went to for help (because the guy that invaded you is their fuckin' enemy) and he tells you that you should be "happy" to give away the majority of your countries natural resources for help from them.
It's just beyond mentally retarded. There's not a spec of intelligence to be seen--and MAGA is going to eat this giant turd like "lol daddy Trump doesn't take any shit!!!" like are you fucking kidding me?
He's being a bully. It's like if your kid was getting his ass beat every day at school and he asked another kid for help and the kid was like "Yeah, sure. But you have to give me your lunch money every single day for the rest of your life" and when your kid is like "wtf" the kid he went to for help was like "FINE, GET YOUR ASS KICKED EVERY DAY, SEE IF I FUCKING CARE!" and people praised that behavior...
He melted down in a deranged rant against the governor of Maine, too. The surest sign of weakness is a hairtrigger temper.
Trump is a buffoon.
He is far worse than that.
Two entertainers making a spectacle. A cynic might think it was staged.
Except the one who was actually a successful comedian and actor was not the one trying to make a spectacle
A cynic might. Someone who actually thinks things through might not.
And... Why would they stage that? Trump wanted to get a peace deal so he could claim it as a win of his anti-war presidency. Zelensky wanted to secure further support. Both didn't get what they wanted.
Trump wants whatever Putin tells him. And right now Putin says no deal, and that he'll sell minerals to the US from Russian occupied Ukraine. Handing Ukraine over to Russia was always Trump's plan, and if he could extort precious resources from Ukraine before then even better.
My take: Trump promised his voters that he would quickly end the war. Turns out it's not that easy to it so that it pleases Putin and makes him rich. Publicly escalates a conversation into a shouting match so that he can deflect the blame on Zelenksy and save face.
Trump being Trump, he couldn't manage a quiet diplomatic path that would make everyone happy, (Which would be what you would expect of the top diplomat of a country) but instead did the most destructive thing possible and now everyone loses.
