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.

  • Absaroka@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      4 months ago

      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.

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    Two guys who can’t keep a single speech or interview civil calling Zelensky disrespectful. LAWL

  • Xanza@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    4 months ago

    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…

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    4 months ago

    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.