Zelensky has laid bare the ugly truth about Trump, the Godfather President

During the meeting, Trump volunteered that he had spoken to Putin in recent days and said he thought that the Russian leader would stick to a peace deal if one were reached. But Zelensky, who has said that a Western-backed security guarantee is needed, sought to explain to Vice President JD Vance that Ukraine had signed a number of agreements with Russia that Moscow had subsequently broken.

Zelensky countered that Putin has broken agreements before, such as the one reached in 2019, when Trump was in office. Zelensky didn’t mention it, but that agreement was reached at a time when Trump was preparing to face his first impeachment trial, for withholding aid to Ukraine and pressuring Ukrainians to spin up an investigation of Biden.

Unprecedented Scenes! Trump Gets Angry At Zelensky In White House, Vance Openly Shames Ukraine Prez

Trump clearly has animus toward Zelensky and feels kinship with Putin.

The two leaders didn’t sign a proposed minerals deal as they had planned and canceled a joint press conference that had been scheduled for later in the afternoon.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) said the Ukrainian leader had been “positive and upbeat” at a breakfast earlier with a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. “I am hopeful that this White House conversation won’t derail progress toward strengthening support for Ukraine,” he said.

A series of European leaders from countries including France, Spain, Norway and Poland voiced their support for Zelensky and Ukraine after the meeting. “We were right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago—and to keep doing so,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X.

In the Oval Office, Zelensky noted that the U.S. has the world’s best air defenses and indicated that Kyiv wanted international support to secure the return of thousands of Ukrainian children who have been taken by the Russians.

“Even after the war we need our nation to be secure, “ Zelensky said.

It may well go down in history as the most remarkable, brutal and shocking political event ever seen on live television.

But it may prove to be more than a piece of TV history.

It may be the moment an entire nation was wiped off the world map.

Or worse, it might trigger events that are a threat way beyond the borders of Ukraine.

A threat to the rest of Europe and, yes, a threat to Britain. There is no point denying it.

But the extraordinary televised clash between President Zelensky and Donald Trump and his sidekick JD Vance was not just momentous for what it meant to the global political situation.

It was the moment the world saw the truth about three men.

On one side, Zelensky – physically small, but a giant in moral stature – the comedian who became an accidental hero, elected to lead his country only to see it invaded by the murderous totalitarian monster that is Vladimir Putin.

How Zelensky rose to the challenge as he led his plucky nation’s brave resistance to evil Putin. Every world leader worth their salt has queued up to praise Zelensky for his remarkable courage.

Britain – including Boris Johnson, for all his faults – can take pride in the way that he, and all of us, have supported Zelensky and Ukraine, with many Britons welcoming Ukrainians in their homes.

The raw courage of little Zelensky was there for all to see as he fought for his and his country’s life in the Oval Office.

And now let us look at the other two men in the room.

The vulgar, threatening, ignorant, snarling, arrogant bully that is the leader of the free world, God help us. The man who had the nerve to call noble Zelensky a dictator and who cosies up to the dictator called Putin who ordered the attempted murder of people on the streets of Salisbury, never mind tens of thousands of innocent women and children in Ukraine.

And look at the vile piece of work that made up the trio, the bearded JD Vance. Acting like Trump’s burly enforcer thug, barking at Zelensky to show “respect” to the Godfather President.

It was as though they had defenseless Zelensky on the floor, jeering at him, vying to kick him in the head, determined to make him grovel, break his resistance.

But Zelensky is made of sterner stuff than these two Neanderthals. Was I the only one who cheered out loud as he stuck to his guns?

Heaven knows what the implications are of yesterday’s appalling scenes. Doubtless there will be some who blame Zelensky for not fawning over Trump, and accuse him of bringing the President’s wrath on his own head. I disagree. All he did was to tell the truth: if the whole world – and, yes, including America – does not stand with Ukraine against Russia, the consequences will be unimaginable forUkraine and, in all likelihood, the rest of us in the West, too.

Zelensky knows what is going on: Trump wants to sell Ukraine down the river so he can pillage its minerals, without offering any troops to keep Russia at bay in return – the so-called “backstop” security guarantee – and carve up other lucrative deals with Putin, with no regard to the fate of Europe, or anyone else whatsoever.

There is another way of looking at yesterday’s Oval Office atrocity. The world owes Zelensky a favour for showing the true face of Trump and Vance: a pair of gangsters who are waging war on truth and democracy and will threaten and avenge anyone who gets in their way.

We were all going to have to confront that fact sooner or later. It has just become a lot sooner.

There is another way to handle meetings with Trump in his Oval Office lair: promise to spend billions more on defence to save him money, and red carpet visits to flatter his vanity, don’t contradict a word he says, grin when he patronises your wife, laugh at his crass jokes, and fall at his feet when he offers peanuts in return – like a deal on the Chagos Islands, for example.

That was Keir Starmer’s approach, and Trump was charm personified. As we now see, it was an illusion.

Zelenskiy had seen the meeting in the Oval Office as an opportunity to convince the United States not to side with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered the invasion of Ukraine three years ago.

Instead U.S. President Trump and Vice President JD Vance laid into Zelenskiy, saying he showed disrespect, driving relations with Kyiv's most important wartime ally to a new low. The Ukrainian leader was told to leave, a U.S. official said. An agreement between Ukraine and the United States to jointly develop Ukraine's rich natural resources, which Kyiv and its European allies had hoped would usher in better relations, was left unsigned.

European leaders leapt to Zelenskiy's defense. German chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz said "we must never confuse aggressor and victim in this terrible war."

Zelenskiy spoke by telephone with French President Emmanuel Macron, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and EU Council President Antonio Costa, an official in the Ukrainian delegation in Washington told Reuters.

Trump has lurched toward Russia since taking over as president, shocking traditional allies in Europe and beyond and leaving Ukraine increasingly vulnerable. Friday's outburst was the most public display of that shift.

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