Today Trump, Vance, and others of the administration disgraced our country. They also showed the world that Trump cares more about Russia and Vladimir Putin than he does about the United States. I’m just now catching up, but I am utterly appalled and disgusted. When we ever pry MAGA out of Washington we must issue an abject apology to Ukraine and to Volodymyr Zelensky. But there will be no living this down, I’m afraid.
David Frum, The Atlantic, At Least Now We Know the Truth.
Ilan Goldenberg and Jennifer Rubin, The Contrarian, Trump and Vance berate Zelensky
Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing, Politico, Russian state media briefly enters Oval Office during Zelenskyy meeting
Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, It Was an Ambush
The United States has formally left the “free world.” The United States has broken the post World War II world order that we led for so long. It’s over. And our nation is utterly disgraced.
Awful.
In his first term, Drumph threw the Kurds under the bus after they helped us in the fight against ISIS (in Syria). A group of people, not a nation, but once he abandoned them (no longer useful??) those fighters paid a huge price after helping US interests.
Today Drumph threw Ukraine under the bus. I am horrified (though not surprised). I'm disgusted, and embarrassed for my country. This is the betrayal of the Kurds time 1000. This time, a sovereign nation. A nation invaded by an imperialistic neighbor.
Welcome to Vichy Amerika.
This is a weird, complicated, and confusing question, but: If the Israeli people were asked if they support Ukraine or Russia, what would they say? What would Netanyahu say. Drumph admires Bibi cuz he's so TUFF. Would Bibi say that the weakling Jewish president of Ukraine should submit to his white Christian nationalist invader?
And the Whiner-in-Chief POTUS explains it as "Putin was put through the wringer by that stupid Russia-Russia-Russia hoax." O Vlad the poor baby who had to endure people saying unkind things about him.
The plan, and it was planned, was to insult Zelinsky into losing his cool. They wanted him to walk out, or insult Trump back, or side against Trump in terms of who treated Ukraine better. Anderson Cooper tried to with me – Hannity was more polite.
The thing is, I did not lose my cool. The feedback which my wife tracked, was against Cooper for rhetorically beating up on me. MAGA won't comprehend how despicable Trump's actions were. Anyone with any objectivity will get it. Trump is falling in the polls and this won't help. Wait until the economy decays. Wall Street is slipping – a series of Dow declines. Musk is less popular than Trump. Tariffs are due to hit Mexico and Canada next week. Unemployment numbers won't be pretty.
We're looking at a government shutdown in a couple of weeks. Trump will blame Democrats but the GOP has the power to avoid a shutdown without a single Democrat voting with Republicans. Messaging will be critical.
If anyone can dream up a dramatic way of apologizing to Zelinsky for the US President's rude betrayal of a courageous friend, sign me up.
I am more proud today of my Ukrainian heritage than on any other day before.
This sums it up:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/five-failures-in-the-oval-office
Donate now:
https://u24.gov.ua/
Slava Ukraini
Excellent links. Thanks.