Summary

Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history, with flared tempers, raised voices, and shredded protocol.

Never before has a U.S. president bullied and berated an adversary, never mind an ally, in such a public way.

During a tense Oval Office meeting, Trump and JD Vance attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, demanding he accept a peace deal with Russia or lose U.S. support.

The conversation devolved into shouting, with Trump accusing Zelenskyy of being ungrateful and “gambling with World War III.”

The meeting ended in chaos, with no agreement reached.

    • @Regrettable_incident
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      195 hours ago

      I’m not American but wouldn’t that mean Vance becomes president? It’s tempting to think he couldn’t be any worse, but trump likes the fucker so who knows?

      • @masinko
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        72 hours ago

        The main benefit of it is a lot of the MAGA movement will wither with him gone. Someone will be a successor to it, but I don’t think anyone is as influential to that movement as he is.

      • @merdaverse
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        174 hours ago

        Honestly, Vance seems even worse to me. Trump has that embarrassing grandpa vibe and he seems too stupid to make any important decisions on his own or realize what he’s doing. Vance gives me a determined murderous intent vibe.

        • @[email protected]
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          151 minutes ago

          Yeah Vance seems like a straight up dangerous psychopath. I’m very scared of him getting more power. (I’m worried already by the immense power he already has) I hope public support galvanizes against him quickly.

      • Dr. Moose
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        205 hours ago

        Maybe they can die together?

          • Dr. Moose
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            34 hours ago

            I don’t think anyone would be sleeping with so much partying going around lol

              • Dr. Moose
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                259 minutes ago

                Do Americans have no way to force an early election?

                • @[email protected]
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                  26 minutes ago

                  I don’t think so, the US isn’t like a Parliamentary government where the Government is comprised of sitting Members of Parliament and therefore are subject to the will of the Parliament.

      • @wall_panel_96
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        -204 hours ago

        After watching the trump, JD, zelensky situation, I lost a big of respect for JD. He acted like a twat. Trump is definitely a better president than him. President that is. They are both douchebags, but so far doing good for the country.

        • @Saryn
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          94 hours ago

          You need to drink your meds, grandpa.

          • @wall_panel_96
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            -104 hours ago

            Don’t indult your elders, grandpa’s have been through some shit. Sadly I can’t berate you with realities though as I’m not even close to being that old.

        • @Regrettable_incident
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          34 hours ago

          I’m curious, what good do you see trump doing for the country? It seems to me that he’s doing a lot of harm but we probably have differing views

          • @wall_panel_96
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            Woman only in woman’s sports, sounds fair to me. Ending corruption in politics, giving soldiers who lost their jobs for not taking the experimental jab back their jobs, revealing the jfk, mlk files, trying to reveal the Epstein files, improving efficiency in governments spending of hard earned taxpayer dollars, ending wars etc. sadly trumps personality has gotten in the way of some of those, but so far, so good. I’m sick of people ignoring all the clear good he has done and just screaming ‘nazi’ and ‘hitler’ which is an insult to anybody aware of history. Those words involve pure evil. Don’t use them in vain. If trump starts sending people to gas Chambers and murdering races he didn’t like, I’ll be there with you screaming ‘nazi Hitler’ at the top of my lungs. That’s not reality though.

            • @[email protected]
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              344 minutes ago

              Wow, a real one in the wild. It’s incredible to see how twisted your perception of reality is.

            • @[email protected]
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              If trump starts sending people to gas Chambers and murdering races he didn’t like, I’ll be there with you screaming ‘nazi Hitler’ at the top of my lungs

              When I call Trump and Musk Nazis, I’m not talking about concentration camps or genocide as with 1940 Nazis either. I’m referring to 1933 Nazis which were using demonization of others, attacking independent media, and The Big Lie to consolidate power. These are what made the Holocaust possible.

            • @webadict
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              42 hours ago

              Can women be in men’s sports?

              What about the veterans who lost their government job?

              What efficiency has been created?

              What if he starts concentration camps, is that enough to compare Trump to Hitler? Or does it have to specifically be death camps? What if people in those concentrations camps just disappeared and nobody cound find them, would that count?

              • @wall_panel_96
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                -143 hours ago

                Explain. What is bad about less corruption, more freedom of speech, less waste of taxpayer dollars, less wars, fair sports, less catering to the mentally ill, instead of yes manning them, actually offering them therapy, less racism, sexism etc, less dei. More catering to the 99.999% of the population.

                • @LePoisson
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                  232 minutes ago

                  Nothing is bad about that, IF that was what was actually happening. Unfortunately, it very much is not.

                  I don’t have the time to go on explaining why upping taxes for everyone making under $500k isn’t catering to 99.999% of the population. Or how blowing up USAID and surprise Pikachu facing when farmers can’t sell their crops since they sold a lot to USAID (not to mention all the soft power USAID gets us and how useful it is to so many people here and abroad). Restricting access to news agencies is not “more freedom of speech” but rather suppression of it.

                  Idk you know there is a bunch more I could say but the reality is not at all what you’re painting with your comments.

                • @[email protected]
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                  73 hours ago

                  There’s not enough crayons and sock puppets in the entire multiverse to get your dumbass to understand.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 hours ago

              Please name/link the wars that ended during his administrations. Why can’t the sports leagues decide who participates via their own rules?

              • @unphazed
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                22 hours ago

                I’ll give him Afghanistan as he organized the withdrawal… but we saw how big a fuckup that was, so bravo for ending that war after 20 years, but proves he has no idea what he’s doing.

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      @[email protected] said

      I can’t wait for Trump to die

      DANGER Will Robinson! we can’t threaten people here, not even oompaloompas.

      I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m not a great shot, but at 130m firing from a prone position I would have made that shot 9 times out of 10. Heck, I had my family on the range firing a diemaco c7 (the colt Canada ar15) as part of a family appreciation day in my home guard company. They hadn’t shot more than an air rifle before, and after about three rounds each they shot killing shots at a silhuet at 200m.

      How that guy could miss is beyond me. Almost like it was intentional.

    • @wall_panel_96
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      -685 hours ago

      Oh shit. I just got here. I see Lemmy is dangerously woke too. Wishing someone to die is rather nasty. I do agree putting that on tv was stupid, world leaders should do all their negotiating (bickering) behind closed doors.

      • @[email protected]
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        335 hours ago

        Not addressing the rest of the comment, but ”world leaders should discuss everything behind closed doors” is a dangerously shortsighted take. You do realize their job is to represent you, right? How do you think you can verify they are doing that if you are not allowed to see and hear what’s being said?

        • @wall_panel_96
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          I mean, given this is the first time in history two world leaders have negotiated a peace treaty on live tv, yeah. That is not a good idea. They need to feel Free to argue and debate for hours without worrying about pride and pr in front of millions of people. But if you are saying transparency and showing every action on tv by presidents etc is good, then are you pro Donald trump? Because no previous president has been this transparent.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 hour ago

            Well, it definitely isn’t a good idea if you’re Trump. I would love to know how Zelenskyy managed to get that kind of a meeting.

            What am I saying? He probably just asked. “Hey, I would love to discuss this deal over our very valuable minerals. Let’s invite the newsmedia and record the whole thing, so everybody can see what an awesome negotiator you are!” Pretty easy to win a battle of wits when your opponent is unarmed.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 hours ago

            After Musk testifies before House or Senate under oath, your transparency claims might become valid. Until then…

      • @[email protected]
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        175 hours ago

        Man life must be so fucking easy for you to never feel threatened by politicians. It’s all just a big TV show in your eyes isn’t it?

        • @wall_panel_96
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          -64 hours ago

          Holy hell no. Politicians start wars and send innocent people to their deaths. It’s no joke.

      • @[email protected]
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        245 hours ago

        I someone blows up a thousand people themselves they are a murderer and its socially acceptable to want them punished. If someone causes thousands of deaths in politics or business we should somehow respect it?

        Hoping someone dies is the last thing left after morality is already dead.

        • @wall_panel_96
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          I’m not sure what you are stating. I have watched ‘all quiet on the western front’ and remember being sickened by the bigwigs procrastinating over the peace treaty while every second people were dying. Great movie by the way. War fkn sucks.

          • @webadict
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            82 hours ago

            Russia started the war in Ukraine, so it seems like it is entirely Russia’s fault and Russia should end it, no?

      • @merdaverse
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        54 hours ago

        It was put on TV on purpose to make Zelensky look weak and make the US look strong (it’s called propaganda) and so daddy Vlad can see that Trump is a good boy.

        I can happily confirm that the woke mind virus is alive and well on Lemmy.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          You’re half right. It was put on TV to make Zelenskyy look good and for Trump and Vance to look like fools, and they played right into it.

        • @wall_panel_96
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          It didn’t work very well, if anything it made zelensky look human, JD look like a prick, and trump look like… trump? I like what trump and co have done so far to fix the mess of woke and corruption, but even I didn’t like trump or JD after watching this. If they really were trying to do as you say, they failed. Big time.

        • @wall_panel_96
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          I would love to, sadly they only accept your kind over there. I am surprised to see you here, reddit is so much more intuitive. I dont know why you would be here by choice you are missing out on a perfect echo chamber for you over there.

          • @EcoByte
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            43 hours ago

            Well, I hope you get outta here too because you are not accepted

            • @wall_panel_96
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              -123 hours ago

              I thought you LGBTQ were supposed to be accepting?

              • Alatha-Thrythwynn
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                62 hours ago

                We are. We do not, however, support fascists, those who are ok with mocking the disabled, grifters, those who are ok with intentionally misgendering others, those who support the marginalization of minorities, people that support the sale of our country to the highest bidders, etc. You support these a-holes and what they are doing to us and this country, therefore, you will not find much acceptance from a good many of us.

              • @webadict
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                62 hours ago

                LGBTQ is surprisingly unaccepting towards bigots. And I find that pretty accepting because I am not a bigot.

              • @EcoByte
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                42 hours ago

                I’m not LGBTQ (although I respect them), sorry I’m just very upset with Trump and how much of a horrible person he is, or, more broadly, what the republican party is right now, I really wanted someone like Bernie who seems to actually be a good person, in power

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                15 minutes ago

                No one should accept bigots.

            • @wall_panel_96
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              -134 hours ago

              Ugh. Ok. If you lot are as nice and accepting as you like to claim, could you point me in the direction of a website with normal people to talk to then? Cheers.

              • Alatha-Thrythwynn
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                84 hours ago

                Try Truth Social. I hear that is the place for head-in-the-sand, delusional, can-not-form-a-coherent thought, group-think individuals who worship at the feet of the 🍊 💩 bag.

                • @wall_panel_96
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                  I could have done without the paragraph of insults, but overall, cheers for pointing me in (hopefully) the right direction to find some sanity on the internet.

                  • Alatha-Thrythwynn
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                    32 hours ago

                    Happy to help if it gets you gone. As for finding sanity there, I’m pretty sure all you’ll find are grifters and bigots, but you do you.

              • @Ensign_Crab
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                14 minutes ago

                You don’t want to talk to normal people. You want to talk to other bigots.

          • @Ensign_Crab
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            16 minutes ago

            I would love to, sadly they only accept your kind over there.

            You got banned from nazi digg for being too far to the right, and you thought that lemmy would be more hospitable?

      • @[email protected]
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        -14 hours ago

        We are woke and bang hot liberal chicks. You are an incel and masturbate to anime and the fantasy of having a tradwife, a fantasy that will never materialize. We are not the same.