US president said his horrific blow-up would make ‘great television’ – the White House has never seen anything like it
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250228230644/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-shouting-match-oval-office
Full transcript: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-meeting-transcript
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The Apprentice: POTUS Edition, but no one laughs, cause is not a reality show.
I haven’t watched nor read anything else about this so I don’t have a full understanding of the meeting. Having said that, I don’t what anyone would expect a world leader to do. He either fights off an invasion without help or sells his nation off. This is a lose lose situation. The USA is losing its image of a country that supports cooperation to an economic invader picking on someone while their down.
Lost. It’s gone.
And it’s going to take a long time to get any positive view about the US from anywhere, including the citizens. Any country where every four years you can just completely about face any contract, agreement, accord, convention, treaty, whatever, who would want to deal with that country? You could sign something, be perfect partners and then 4 years later get tariffed and humiliated on a whim just because a of a small percentage of votes (or lack of votes).
Ask our indigenous about USA reneging on treaties.
Or even the former slaves, they’re still waiting on their 40 acres and a mule.
Brother, I heard that too my core!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v_kTNIYsFnQ You can form your own opinion from this clip.
I thank all the people who actually look at Trump and listen to his speeches.
I can’t handle it. It’s like listening to a baboon playing bagpipes
My conclusion is that I want to break a few particularly orange sausage fingers.
Art of The Deal /s
It took me this long to realize that trump wears that same arrangement of suit colors everywhere because it’s red, white, and blue 🤦♀️ JD Vance has started exclusively wearing it too I think
White or red suits look bad, but blue is democrat, so they make it not blue by making it a power suit . The red and blue power suit is pretty traditional though .
Democracy must be a cat for how many times it has died in the last decade
Inside the Oval Office, which has seen much but never anything quite like this, Zelenskyy thanked Trump for the invitation.
somehow this was required to switch me from “buy canadian” to “sell american” and i am ashamed it took so long
Honestly, I don’t even think this kind of sentiment/outcome is necessarily Trump’s fault, but rather the outcome of US overall goal for Ukraine - in another article I’ve seen Joe Biden acting disappointed towards Zelensky for not being “grateful”, but privately.
It seems they REALLY wanted those mineral rights and then a ceasefire so they could extract them and hold heavy political influence over the country, much like how foreign oil companies backed by the US hold heavy influence in democracy/austerity in the global south.
