US president said his horrific blow-up would make ‘great television’ – the White House has never seen anything like it

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250228230644/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-shouting-match-oval-office

Full transcript: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-meeting-transcript


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  • 🅃🅾🅆🅴🄻🅸🄴
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    104 hours ago

    It took me this long to realize that trump wears that same arrangement of suit colors everywhere because it’s red, white, and blue 🤦‍♀️ JD Vance has started exclusively wearing it too I think

    • @[email protected]
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      33 hours ago

      White or red suits look bad, but blue is democrat, so they make it not blue by making it a power suit . The red and blue power suit is pretty traditional though .

  • RejZoR
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    667 hours ago

    I’ve never seen anything quite as pathetic as how Trump behaved, thinking he’s in fucking TV show again. Get fucked orange monkey.

    • @[email protected]
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      155 hours ago

      I heard this multiple times from conservative radio/television. The guy is an absolute embarrassment and security risk to the world. Vance has actually proven to somehow be even dumber than the average doornail as well. He heard Zelensky say something of substance and immediately thought to himself, Trump can’t respond to this without fucking it up, let me cut him off and just declare him offensive for accepting our invite to discuss what needs to happen.

      • The Real King Gordon
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        165 hours ago

        Vance isn’t dumb. He’s very smart. He chooses to be this way for his own gain which makes him EVIL.

        • @[email protected]
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          5 hours ago

          Is screwing over the working class very smart? It’ll end with his kids being fatherless. I’d call it dumb. Granted it will be some time before that happens. But his grandkids will read about how terrible he was

          • @[email protected]
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            43 hours ago

            He’s been doing well financially by doing exactly that. These people just look at what’s good for their immediate family, not society as a whole.

  • @[email protected]
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    187 hours ago

    I haven’t watched nor read anything else about this so I don’t have a full understanding of the meeting. Having said that, I don’t what anyone would expect a world leader to do. He either fights off an invasion without help or sells his nation off. This is a lose lose situation. The USA is losing its image of a country that supports cooperation to an economic invader picking on someone while their down.

    • @[email protected]
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      467 hours ago

      Lost. It’s gone.

      And it’s going to take a long time to get any positive view about the US from anywhere, including the citizens. Any country where every four years you can just completely about face any contract, agreement, accord, convention, treaty, whatever, who would want to deal with that country? You could sign something, be perfect partners and then 4 years later get tariffed and humiliated on a whim just because a of a small percentage of votes (or lack of votes).

      • @[email protected]
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        176 hours ago

        I thank all the people who actually look at Trump and listen to his speeches.

        I can’t handle it. It’s like listening to a baboon playing bagpipes

      • Lemminary
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        34 hours ago

        My conclusion is that I want to break a few particularly orange sausage fingers.

  • Maeve
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    35 hours ago

    Inside the Oval Office, which has seen much but never anything quite like this, Zelenskyy thanked Trump for the invitation.