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.
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.
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.
Trump's attitude towards peace is the attitude of a rapist: your attacker is bigger and stronger; the more you struggle, the more it will hurt. Just let it happen and it will be better for you.
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.
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...
I hope with time we can prove to you that there's Americans here fighting against this. I know it doesn't look great now, and don't blame you for hating us and our country. As an American, I also hate us and our country.
Literally lol'd because this is also my sentiment. I don't blame people for what they think of us. I just hope we can get out of the duopolistic stranglehold and actually have strong candidates with strong for everyone policies that actually get enacted and enshrined into law. And that we also clean up the courts, especially SCOTUS.
Hit them where it hurts and boycott USA! Delete all Meta accounts, boycott Amazon, stop watching american shows, install Linux. Every little thing helps!
Also, if you can afford to, consider donating to help Ukraine. I just donated in honour of Zelensky's courage, trying to spread awareness for them to actually help do something about this BS and show support.
It's Zelensky's fund to help with defense, medical etc (you can pick). They take Euros/USD and its quick & easy with card or bank transfer.
Yes, boycott us, if the nations won't try to sanction us in the US, the people can with their wallets. (I'm also trying to shift my spending habits from within, it's tough)
Wholeheartedly agree. Big business is Trump's friend only as long as they think he's good for business. If they see that things were actually better under Democratic government they'll basically do our job for us (although we really shouldn't let up until Trump's damage is completely undone).
Hey man. I didn’t vote for the guy ever. I’m saddened multiple times per day by what is happening. Go fuck yourself if you think everybody here is okay with what’s going on here.
Very few people think everyone on your side of the pond is okay with your political shitshow.
It's disheartening to see around a third of your voters being cunts, but then every country has their regressive arseholes, but it's downright frustrating to see another chunk of your voting populace being okay enough with it to not bother voting against it.
So, by majority, the Americans are a clownshow. A small #NotAllVoters contingent doesn't really change that - coupled with a modern history of American exceptionalism (and i say that with a straight face even with the British track record) then you can see why you're getting dunked on.
edit - no, they are celebrating it. You know where to look. I wonder how bad it will get before that place finally realizes he's not just hurting the people they want him to hurt.
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.