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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  • RejZoR ( RejZoR@lemmy.ml ) 
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    I’ve never seen anything quite as pathetic as how Trump behaved, thinking he’s in fucking TV show again. Get fucked orange monkey.

    • I heard this multiple times from conservative radio/television. The guy is an absolute embarrassment and security risk to the world. Vance has actually proven to somehow be even dumber than the average doornail as well. He heard Zelensky say something of substance and immediately thought to himself, Trump can’t respond to this without fucking it up, let me cut him off and just declare him offensive for accepting our invite to discuss what needs to happen.

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    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.

  • Steven McTowelie ( towelie@lemm.ee ) 
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    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

    • MDCCCLV ( MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ) 
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      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 .

  • 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.