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.

  • @troglodytis
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    3054 minutes ago

    Why would any nation that does not have nukes not start making nukes right now?

    The USA has shown over and over, it’s the only thing we take seriously. We don’t give a fuck until you have nukes. We don’t care about treaties, alliances, deals. We only care if you can start the nuke wars. Anything else is just “how can we take advantage of you?”

    Also … World, I understand you’re not reading this, but for the three of ya that do, boycott us. Tariff the shit out of us. You got this, and thanks for all the fish.

  • @finitebanjo
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    “Peace deal” means surrender now, don’t join NATO, and get invaded again in a few years.

    TBH idk how Zelenskyy thought things would go any differently.

    • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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      113 minutes ago

      So word is that the more the US mistreats Z, the more the European people like him, and want to support him. So this was probably a great outcome fir them. The deal offered was very one sided. Had Z just not taken it, people would blame him. But now, everyone knows who to blame.

  • @[email protected]
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    171 hour ago

    It’s been a while since I’ve gone through a whole day being proud of my US citizenship. Today was one of the most shameful.

    • @LaunchesKayaks
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      960 minutes ago

      Honestly. I’ve never been more ashamed. I wish I could help end this shit, ya know?

  • LustyArgonian
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    541 minutes ago

    Wrote up a summary months ago (with reputable sources!) about this stuff, and was permabanned from Lemmy news and politics for it.

    Idk man, you can tell people stuff, but it’s so hard for them to access what’s real right now. There’s a concerted online effort to suppress factual info.

    https://lemmy.world/comment/13431373

    • @GreenKnight23
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      326 minutes ago

      hey! I remember you! I saved your whole comment.

      your comment made me think something worse was on the way and made me start to prepare.

      thanks!

      • LustyArgonian
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        14 minutes ago

        Good, that is the point, I want people to be safe, stay alive, have food to eat and homes to live in. Take care!

    • @[email protected]
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      113 minutes ago

      The trouble is that this was probably intentional, you can see the vp is literally an attack dog in this case, but I still think it’s likely that if zelensky stroked trumps ego it wouldn’t have ended that way. It’s like trump is pro Russia but also narcissistic and they are sometimes at odds.

  • @[email protected]
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    692 hours ago

    Finally a f**king actual headline. That was a disaster and a disgrace for all Americans. I can’t take these meek be “explosive White House meeting, where maybe Trump was possibly speaking angrily, but please Mr. Trump don’t sue us, if you disagree!”

  • @pyre
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    162 hours ago

    totally not a russian dog

  • Jonathan
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    543 hours ago

    I just can’t understand why Vance would interpret Zelenskyy as being disrespectful for politely, calmly, and carefully articulating his point of view on how diplomacy has failed him and his country. Vance seems like the type of person I would basically laugh at and walk away from if I were in a situation to have to hear him be “alpha and in-charge”.

    It was like watching a scene from an episode of a reality TV show from the early 2000s.

    • @TheTwelveYearOld
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      161 hour ago

      It was like watching a scene from an episode of a reality TV show from the early 2000s.

      That’s not a coincidence.

    • @[email protected]
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      432 hours ago

      Because they went in wanting to find a way to make Zelenskyy seem unreasonable. They have no intention of helping Ukraine at all and now it’s going to be because he didn’t immediately kiss Trumps feet.

    • @garbagebagel
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      182 hours ago

      He didn’t, he was just saying that it was disrespectful cause he wanted to show what a good little bitch he is.

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    (Should be obv, but this excludes Zelenskyy)

    Edit: wtf why is it so hard to insert gifs

  • @Melvin_Ferd
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    41 hour ago

    I’m already seeing the memes about Trump and Vance dominating zelenski or flat out turning this event into a joke rather than keeping it as the shit show it is. They move fast

  • kn0wmad1c
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    233 hours ago

    The restraint on Zelenskyy to not call him Krasnov to his face.

  • @halferect
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    293 hours ago

    Trump is such a piece of shit, zelensky showed so much restraint. I think I would have slapped that traitor into the next dimension

  • @[email protected]
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    854 hours ago

    I don’t know exactly how to put this, but I feel personally embarrassed by this.

    I think this is going to shift world order more than expected. Every country now must be nuclear. Trump is going to try to install himself as a dictator. I think violence will have to be the answer. Man it’s depressing.

    • @Maggoty
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      132 hours ago

      I’m pissed. There was always a simple answer. Freeze the front line and make it clear to Putin that Ukraine is now their version of Taiwan. They could keep trying to attack but the Ukrainians are now backed by the full might of the American military. They can keep what they already have but anything else is a step too far.

      Yeah it’s possible Zelensky doesn’t go for that deal but damn, they didn’t even try for the simplest option that stops the fighting, gets the payments Trump so desperately wants and guarantees Ukraine’s security. They literally just presented an extortion scheme as the only option, with “trust me bro” as the guarantee.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 hours ago

        i bet their plan is to go into places already ravaged by the war, look for valuable mining opportunities, if not, trump branded fuckin cesspools. they don’t even care if there ARE valuable mining deposits.

        • @Maggoty
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          61 hour ago

          Oh Trump isn’t looking for anything. He just wants Ukraine to ship us rare earths instead of adding the decades old refinery tech back into the US minerals sector.

          That’s the best part of this whole thing by the way. We do have plenty of rare earths accessible in the US. We even have all the raw material mines we would require. They’re just being lazy.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 hour ago

            yeah but trump has his little nose in the ground. if he secures rights to mining in Ukraine, he can farm that out as deals and favors. trump is transactional.

  • @[email protected]
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    414 hours ago

    I know the main thing here is Vance and Trump backstabbing and bullying Zelenskyy, but I just want to point out that Trump repeatedly talked about “raw earth” instead of “rare earths”. We’re truly fucked.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 hours ago

      Trump is America’s Boris Johnson turned up 100. The act of stupidity is intentionally, to provide a thin veneer of plausible deniability in case the rule of law comes back swinging it’s prejudice cock to only smack either Vance in the face as he Pardons Trump and Musk.

  • @x00z
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    1455 hours ago

    I checked a few parts for a few minutes. It was too painful to watch.

    Troomp and JD couch showed the worst traits leaders could have. The obvious ones are the American superiority complexes and the toxic need to escalate and talk down upon others.

    In all of the bits I saw when skipping trough it, Zelenksy deescalated the situation multiple times while Trump and especially Vance escalated and started talking like some pretentious teenager bullies that gotten themselves a country.

    Fuck the USA.

    • @Maggoty
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      152 hours ago

      The only thing missing was Trump shouting “hold me back bro!” and pretending Vance was holding him back.