Trump adviser Mike Waltz says the U.S. has "a real issue on our hands" if Ukrainian President Zelenskyy doesn't come back to the negotiating table in its war with Russia.
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there was a meeting with Bonesaw that didn't even include Ukraine and there was a transparently performative 'tough guy' berating in the White House that didn't go as planned for Trump.
Why would Zelensky trust anything that Conrad trump would say after the disgrace in the Oval Office? Europe is doing the right thing by continuing to back the efforts for the free country. Europe should take over any negotiations and block Conrad trump from his undermining of the democracy.
Let’s be clear. Zelensky should NOT come back to any negotiating table that involves the US. The US has proven itself to neither be an ally to Ukraine nor an objective party to any peace negotiations given its clear alignment with Russia. Ukraine needs to align with NATO, UN, and EU.
What a disappointing article! I would never come back after being attacked by Trump and Vance. He now has European allies to step in. The entire world saw the confrontation so there’s no hiding what took place! Shame on you NOR for normalizing the Republican Party!
They put him at the kids table and acted like abusive parents would towards a toddler. The U.S. does have a real problem on its hands. The administration is a danger to America and friendly towards Putin. It’s bad
Yep, those idiots Trump and Vance blew it! Why should a war time president, a hero that stood up to Putin, put up with being degraded by "Bone Spurs" Trump and his jester? He is within his rights to tell them to fuck right off, then go work with Europe.
The Trumpites hope for a mass outpouring of anger and contempt for Zelenskyy, justifying forcing him to step down (so a Putin puppet can be installed in his place.)
No doubt the Cult is complying---but I bet the rest of the US opinion numbers are NOT looking good for their little plot's success.
Disgusting deplorable behavior from the United States. We are trying to take an advantage of a country that’s under siege to benefit the corporations of the US. Zelensky is no pushover.
Zelensky has literally been in a war zone for 3 years (unlike like most of the suits in that in the WH meeting). And he wants peace only for the good of his country and its people, and not for any profit it may bring him personally (also unlike most of the suits in that WH meeting)!!
Honestly there is no need. Russia won't let any mining happen no matter what. The deal,That I am glad was not signed, with the US was just a ploy. Trump would allow Russian mining companies to come in and mine the valuable minerals under false companies, then send them back to Russia.
What promise? The ones that Biden gave? The 🤡 will not honor those promises, nor will he be sending the balance of the weapons previously promised by President Biden.
Reality Chrck: trumptyDumpty has no honor and is clearly a Russian operative. He has doomed our nation to demorilization.
I was referring to USA obligation under the Budapest memorandum. That would be Clinton. But you're right you guys are doomed to inconsequence thanks to this idiot.
These people are deluded if they think the Ukrainian people and indeed most of Europe are not still fully behind Zelensky. If they truly think their bullying bluster carries any credibility outside Trumpistan they are crazier than the rest of the world already judges them.
Seems like the pressure is shifting, the Administration is more interested in an end to the war for Russia’s (their true friend) sake then for Ukraines.
The one who needs to apologize for his behavior is Trump. Trump needs to make security guarantees so that any end to this war doesn’t simply set the stage for Russia’s next invasion.
SLAVA UKRAINE!
Thanks to the Russian tramp and our idiot VP, we have turned our back on our Allies to sleep with Russia. My father is turning over in his grave.
Who created this mess? The Oval Office. Weak kneed Republican senators and reps are being extorted by this administration. Extortion is against the law.
"Why won't he surrender? He was supposed to surrender! Putin TOLD us to make him surrender! I don't wanna drink the tea! I'M TOO YOUNG to drink the tea!!"
After all that talk about who holds the cards, it looks like Trump has none. He overplayed his hand and Zelynskyy wisely walked away. Now the United States is left looking like fools and no one will trust us. Trump is an idiot.
Zelenskyy should work through the Europeans to negotiate any cease fire / peace agreement with Russia! Forget direct talks with the Trump administration! Trump can’t be trusted to honor any deal so why bother!
The Ukrainian people are proud of what their president did this week, standing up to Trump. Putin has literally killed their people and kidnapped children and Vance wants Zelensky to be nice to Putin and let him keep taken land.
"Peace through strength" is code for "bullying people until they grovel" but they're going to find that not everyone is as weak as Republican Congresspeople.
That's what I thought at first but the White House has said that he wanted to stay and talk further ( they were supposed to have lunch) Mario and Waltz were dispatched to tell him and his team to leave.
He wasn't at a negotiating table with Russia. He was at a staged television event of performative outrage by moronic US "leaders".
Trump destroyed the negotiating table so let us know when Russia starts removing its troops from the sovereign nation they signed a treaty with years ago.
There is nothing Zelenskyy can do to please Trump other than unconditional surrender to Putin.
The European countries need to stand together and make clear that Trump's demand is unacceptable.
Ukraine should stick with eu....do not trust this american administration...trump offers you nothing but with rape your minerals. And never apologize to trump
It needs to be European security guarantees because no one in their right minds would trust the USA. Ever since the Korean War the US has cut and run and left their allies defenceless. Last weeks betrayal is the worst yet.
No one should say, 'everything will be alright', because that is the 'biggest lie ever told'. Because everything is not alright and will not be for a long time.
Europe is just gonna leave us behind. America will no longer be or is no longer the leader of the free world. Maga does have some decisions to make. FOAFO
"The United States will ensure that Russia becomes so strong that it does not become dependent on China and therefore an instrument of Chinese foreign policy.
Europe has reversed the goal of ensuring that Russia becomes so weak that it loses the war in Ukraine and does not pose a threat to European security."
That's why for Europe the USA isn't a reliable partner anymore.
I personally expect a new European defense alliance a NATO without the USA.
Thing, NATO controls the airways & seaways to Ukraine. They will never let Trump cross them for an invasion. Also, great as the US Army is, it is always short on foot soldiers. We don’t have enough of them to defeat, Ukraine. Just more lies, bluster, and stupid attempts at intimidation by the Nazis
Tulsi Gabbard said that Zelensky does not want peace or it’s not his first priority. Survival and victory are always your first priority when you have been wrongfully and illegally invaded by a power mad dictator for absolutely no reason. The US will never go 2 war against Ukraine. For 1 …
I thought it would take a major cataclysmic event to strip the US of its superpower status and leadership of the free world. In the end it took 10 minutes of some hideous reality TV freak show where the 47th President lost any respect the world still had for him. América first is America alone
Fuck these bizarro raving fascists, Russian patsies, cultural vandals, oligarchs, and DT sycophants. They’re so clearly tooting Putin’s propaganda as loudly as they can word for word. They create havoc and death and then bemoan it while blaming the victims. I’m so ashamed of them as to feel sick.
Trump has engineered the worst possible outcome for himself. He has guaranteed he will be excluded from the solution, which is the inevitable answer in any case.
That is who he is. It's the right answer and it is good it happened quickly. Thing is, he certainly does not speak for a majority of Americans ... you need to organise and throw this moron out.
The real issue we have is the traitor/felon/Nazi in the White House and the GOP enablers in Congress and Senate who don't have the balls to stand up to him.
Vlad?
- Mike?
Did I chose the right words?
- khorosho, chto ty ne upomyanul moye imya, ochen' khorosho, drug moy
??
- good you did'nt mention my name, very good my friend
Zelensky can negotiate without the US. In abandoning American alliances and global leadership, Trump has seriously diminished himself as a consequential player on the world stage.
Shockingly, re-electing a twice-impeached, ignorant, racist, serial-lying sex-abuser who betrayed us to Russia in his first term is not working out so well.
It’s not “it’s war with Russia”!!! It’s defending itself when Russia declared war by invading their country!! Words matter @npr.org. Do better. Negotiating lasting cease fire, doesn’t require the invaded country to give up its territory. Russia just has to leave and then it’s over.
Zelensky is asking for lasting peace and to date we have yet to hear and cease fire wills be upheld by Russia (broken 35 of them). It is also deplorable that Waltz has talked about prez Zelensky needing to step down and mixing up peace with surrender.
I like this line "1945 when then-prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, was voted out of office in the wake of World War II and "did not transition England to the next phase."... Clearly they forgot the part where Churchill was elected again in 1951
It's an issue the f**kers created on their own bcz they wanted to show off their strong-arm tactics that has turned the world against them. Now no one wants to trade or do commerce with America, and definitely allies don't trust 47, Waltz, DUI Hire & Putin Asset Gabbard so they'll simply b ignored.
Trump is trying to shake him down further by declaring Ukraine needs to be more appreciative than they have been..
Zelensky is begging and pleading and has been very thankful already..
The shameful bully shakedown rubbish move is something we have seen since kindergarten!!!
What if the real plan isn’t about Russia invading Europe, but to isolate the US from its allies to make it easier to invade the US? You don’t always need a military to invade a country, just someone in charge of that country willing to do your bidding.
Translated: "Ukraine and Europe are going to negotiate with Russia and leave us completely out of it. We won't even get any of that sweet sweet 'raw earth'."
Why on earth would he negotiate with the USA under Trump’s leadership?! All they’ve ever done is break treaties with our allies, make sweetheart deals with the enemy, and lie! The “real issue on our hands” is the Fascist tyrant in the Whitehouse and his cabinet of fools.
U.S. Secretary of State Rubio sat in the Oval Office with President Zelensky, POTUS and VP this week, didn’t repeat a word of his 2014 U.S. Senate speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine. His lack of honor and integrity in the oval have made him Saturday Night Live laughing stock! https://youtu.be/rFqvErYqFRs
Trump said in his campaign he wanted to be a dictator on day 1. Zelensky has the integrity to stand up to dictators, like a true leader of the free world 🙏🏼
What you have is a self created mess. For him to have to grovel and kiss the ring, accept Putins terms, AND give away his country’s future is deplorable. How did we get reduced to this? Shameful.
And he shouldn’t come back! That was an attack and trump is on Russian’s side. Our president is unreliable and will only protect themselves. Don’t do it
Didn’t he dismiss him and have him removed after he and his band of deplorables tried to humiliate and bully him? Oh yeah he wants us to not believe what we all saw.
From the GOP comments on the Sunday morning news shows, apparently, the administration is continuing with Trump's usual defense, "Don't believe what you've seen with your own eyes and don't believe what you've heard with your own ears."
The unbelievable odacity of these Republicans. They are criminals for demanding the future of a nation so President can line the pockets of billionaires.
Trump and Vance and now Johnson and Graham, everyone who opened their mouth to try to blame Zelensky for being ambushed by these incompetent toddlers needs to issue a public apology to Zelensky and Ukraine.
Somebody tell Waltz it was his draft-dodging fat old boss’s petulant lying, whining, and crying that’s the issue, not Zelensky’s heroism and commitment to democracy.
One-sided demand from the US isn’t a negotiation. And what “real issue?” Putin getting upset with Trump for not repaying him for his favor by handing him over Ukraine?
No, President Zelensky do not return to the US. The admin and the MAGA followers do not have your back or the interests of the Ukrainian people at heart.
Why are they still talking about Ukraine? Putin’s Puppets just kicked him out of the WH essentially saying no more funding so keep Ukraine out of your mouths.
Disappointing coverage. We all saw Trump and Vance act like bullies. We all know Russia has broken agreement after agreement. Why do you give so much voice and space to those who lie and bully? I expect unfair and unbalanced from faux news, but really??
No actually we needed to see this egregious behavior of the so called president and his evil sidekick. They are obviously on the side of putin the puppetmaster and they aren't even afraid to show it!
Their despicable actions is an alarming factor, that paves the way to our Nations Destruction!
The only ones who need to apologize are Donald and James Donald. Of course Zelensky wants peace, he needs a guaranty of security for his country. He’s not stupid. He wasn’t allowed to talk or say anything as they hammered him over what he was wearing and scolding him for not saying thank you enough
We need to stop blustering about how awful it all was and start thinking how we can prevent the administration from destroying Ukraine because Trump WILL do what he is threatening.
Well Waltz, you wankers threw Zelenkyy out, didn't you? Say sorry for your ignorant behaviour and he might come back. It was your shitshow and the whole world saw it happen live on TV. And when he comes back, make sure there are only adults present. 🙄
"[Waltz] also harkened back to 1945 when then-prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, was voted out of office in the wake of World War II"
He conveniently forgot that in 1930s Churchill was against appeasing Hitler, same as how Zelenskyy & other world leaders are against appeasing Putin now.
Come back? President Zelenskyy wasn’t invited in the first place! These Trump officials all go on Sunday TV & simply LIE. Wish the TV hosts would call them out for a change, don’t you?
Zelenskyy has advisors too, he likely knew in advance how the meeting was likely to play out and how best to handle the situation for maximum benefit to Ukraine afterwards.
Showing the world with clarity how far US leadership has turned is a much better result than capitulation would have gotten.
I'll bet every time Marco Rubio talks to one of his contacts in Europe they bring this up and tell him no country will trust the USA ever again.
I'll also bet Trump doesn't GAF.
He has to have the worst job on Earth.
Waltz should give his boy Donald a juice box and a nap and distract JD couch Vance something productive to do. Otherwise, the UK PM will tell the US what’s going to happen and politely ask the US support it by staying out of the way.
Ukraine is now seeing Europe step up and come together without US involved, ambushing Zelenskyy was a big mistake, now 47&Vance don't have anything for their dear leader Putin. 40 years of anti-democracy anti-government rhetoric from the right has consequences.
A four-point plan to guarantee the sovereignty and security of Ukraine was presented today by England representing basically Europe and the EU. But we will let you know when they present one...🙄
The Ukraine people love their president and to think otherwise is just stupid. I hope Zelenakyy doesnt give Trump another thought. Move on and don't count on the US.
Trump has made it clear that they want to pillage Ukraine and make him grovel for support to make him look powerful. Europe should be negotiating this deal. They have more to lose than we do.
Actually even the deal President Zelensky might have gotten would not be honored by trump or putin. The goal is to buy more time for russia to regroup, the minerals deal was a way to steal the precious minerals from Ukraine by using Russian covert contractors.
Remember putins past broken premises
The media needs to grow some balls, stand up to this regime and call it out for what it really is. Bullying by a weak dictator with a fragile ego whose actions are controlled by Russia.
I watched the entire press event at the Oval Office and President Zelensky repeatedly tried to explain Russia is not to be trusted with a cease fire and that is why he needs security guarantees for Ukraine. It is not unreasonable and makes perfect sense. How does anyone twist that?
It was planned.
They never planned on signing any agreement. The idea is to demonize Ukraine to make them the bad guy so they can justify helping Putin take it over.
Zelenskyy had the choice of admitting to a lie or defending the truth and getting yelled at. He was in a no-win situation.
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there was a meeting with Bonesaw that didn't even include Ukraine and there was a transparently performative 'tough guy' berating in the White House that didn't go as planned for Trump.
when and where was the negotiating table?
Trump and Vance had their chance and decided to act like mobsters instead of diplomats.
Get ready for cancelled defense contracts, tariffs, being excluded from trade deals.
Roll up the sleeves
No doubt the Cult is complying---but I bet the rest of the US opinion numbers are NOT looking good for their little plot's success.
Reality Chrck: trumptyDumpty has no honor and is clearly a Russian operative. He has doomed our nation to demorilization.
As trump has become Putins Poodle 🐩
Thanks to the Russian tramp and our idiot VP, we have turned our back on our Allies to sleep with Russia. My father is turning over in his grave.
We will help ourselves to his country’s natural resources while giving Russia part of his country.
We won’t guarantee we would do anything if Putin tries to take the rest of Ukraine.
How can Ukraine pass on that deal?
America would never do that
Trump destroyed the negotiating table so let us know when Russia starts removing its troops from the sovereign nation they signed a treaty with years ago.
There is no way anyone can spin that shit show into anything but a deliberate berating by Trump. They wanted to make Zelensky look small.
No negotiations have taken place, it's just Trump doing Russia's bidding. Period.
Krasnov is real
The European countries need to stand together and make clear that Trump's demand is unacceptable.
Unfortunately, Musk may have already terminated those professionals within the federal government.
Only the amateurs, including an amateur president, remain to conduct negotiations.
But these Putin sycophants in the White House do have an issue on their hands…they can’t complete Putin’s project. I’m sure there are consequences.
"The United States will ensure that Russia becomes so strong that it does not become dependent on China and therefore an instrument of Chinese foreign policy.
...
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/analyse-mens-eu-forberedte-sig-paa-trump-sov-nato-i-timen-og-nu-er-alliancen-doed
That's why for Europe the USA isn't a reliable partner anymore.
I personally expect a new European defense alliance a NATO without the USA.
Russia leaves, wars over. It's simple solution.
Ukraine can sell THEIR minerals how they see fit and pay people back of that is what's required.
He has been very open and plain about it through action and words this past week.
Even siding with Russia — at the UN — voting against condemning Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian people.
With the recent events in the Oval Office, this song is more fitting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2pdoceUF_4
- Mike?
Did I chose the right words?
- khorosho, chto ty ne upomyanul moye imya, ochen' khorosho, drug moy
??
- good you did'nt mention my name, very good my friend
Zelensky is begging and pleading and has been very thankful already..
The shameful bully shakedown rubbish move is something we have seen since kindergarten!!!
R Rapist
U Unhinged
M Moron
P Psycho
J Jackass
D Delusional
V Vicious
A Asshole
N Naive
C Corrupt
E Egomaniac
Fix it losers!
You have an issue on your hands.
Just not the one you’re admitting to.
There. I fixed it. Do your job.
What the fuck are you doing!?!
Why do ppl have to tell you how to do your job!!!!!!??????????
Also I agree and am very distressed that my country's so called president is a puppet of putin.
We are being lend down a very dark path... 😐
Trump
Musk
Hegseth
Waltz
And little Marco
Their despicable actions is an alarming factor, that paves the way to our Nations Destruction!
"But what won't change is us sucking up to Russia" 😄
He conveniently forgot that in 1930s Churchill was against appeasing Hitler, same as how Zelenskyy & other world leaders are against appeasing Putin now.
Showing the world with clarity how far US leadership has turned is a much better result than capitulation would have gotten.
Funny how that works out.
The US doesn't force allies to surrender.
Zelensky made it clear that Ukraine is not surrendering.
https://worldstar.com/videos/wshh7D9nwpk6pR4ehPuB/ukrainian-president-zelensky-knocks-out-trump-at-the-white-house-in-ai-generated-video
ALL 750 000 000 EUROPEANS MUST BOYCOTT TRUMPS USA!
DONT BUY ANYTHING FROM USA!
Copy/paste/paint this everywhere. Time to get in their heads rent free. Zelensky is the ticket.
Donald is weak and vulnerable. Trigger like a bumpstock:
"Mr. President people are saying "Zelensky is the greatest leader of our time" Can you comment?!"
I'll also bet Trump doesn't GAF.
He has to have the worst job on Earth.
Anyone with a back bone and shred of intelligence and integrity would have passed on being in Trumps admin.
He wanted it. Cuz they align with who he is as a person.
https://youtu.be/ck1dVY2MEAE?si=fstrignGos9eYQy8
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/ukraines-zelenskyy-attends-european-summit-in-london-after-unprecedented-white-house-meeting/
Remember putins past broken premises
They never planned on signing any agreement. The idea is to demonize Ukraine to make them the bad guy so they can justify helping Putin take it over.
Zelenskyy had the choice of admitting to a lie or defending the truth and getting yelled at. He was in a no-win situation.