The Cowardly Mouse from Queens Meets the Courageous Man from Kyiv
In a White House meeting dripping with humiliation, Trump scolded Ukraine’s wartime leader for refusing his Kremlin-inspired “peace plan” that would see Ukraine surrender
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It is one of the crueler jokes of our time that a man like Donald J. Trump—whose knowledge of history could be etched on the head of a pin and still leave room for the Lord’s Prayer—is once again holding court on matters of global consequence.
And true to form, the old orange man has once again vomited up not statesmanship, not reason, not even the low cunning of a backroom operator.
But as is his tradition, there was a tantrum and a screed. And for good measure he added in some slavish regurgitation of all the Kremlin’s favorite talking points.
As reported by multiple news outlets, Trump summoned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—whose country is being carved up by Russian artillery and scorched by imperial savagery—to the White House.
A meeting to take place in the hallowed halls of the White House West Wing.
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One might imagine in a saner universe, that the leader of a besieged democracy attacked without provocation by a vicious aggressor would be met with solemnity.
Respect. Perhaps even gratitude.
But Trump, ever the demented vulgarian, instead berated Zelensky. Trump chastised him like a misbehaving valet. Why?
Because Trump spoke by phone with Putin the day before. And because Zelensky refused to play along with Trump’s delusional fan-fiction of “peace.” (or, more likely, peace in our time).
Let’s be clear: Trump did not offer a strategy. Trump issued an ultimatum indistinguishable from Putin’s propaganda.
Trump’s proposal—to freeze the front lines and allow Russia to keep its stolen land in Ukraine’s Donbas region—was nothing short of a white flag. Signed in the sleazy Trump penmanship of cowardice.
The moral position, apparently, is that Ukraine should be thankful for whatever crumbs it fall off the American table. And if Ukraine doesn’t kneel fast enough, Mango Mussolini will spontaneously combust.
By most accounts, the Trump tantrum was epic. Not “Young Republican Epic,” but still, impressive.
The 47th President of the United States is a man with the emotional stability of a spoiled toddler denied a second scoop of ice cream. So, naturally, his solution to having to debate a real man led to deranged shouting and cursing, according to multiple reports.
This is the brittle temperament of a little boy who fancies himself a “dealmaker” but melts down when confronted with anyone possessing the slightest hint of moral clarity.
What Trump is demanding from Zelensky is not peace. It is Ukraine’s surrender—dressed up in the tinsel of Trump’s skanky transactional politics.
And handed to Putin with a wink.
Trump’s proposals mirror almost verbatim the Kremlin’s own script. Stop fighting, give up territory, and let the Russian boot rest firmly planted on Ukrainian soil.
Never mind the thousands dead. Or the mass graves. Or the tortured civilians, Or the kidnapped children. Or the thousands of other horrors visited on Ukraine by the war criminal Putin.
Trump, a man who likely couldn’t find Donbas on a map without a UN interpreter present, has decided that Zelenskyy’s resistance is inconvenient—for Trump—and therefore immoral.
The gall of it would be amusing, if it weren’t so grotesque.
Here is a man who dodged military service with a bogus bone spur, wagging his finger at a wartime president who has literally stood on the front lines.
Trump—whose bravery peaks at social media posts and AI poop videos—telling Zelensky how to fight a war is the equivalent of a circus clown giving advice to a brain surgeon.
And for what? So Trump can appeal to the lowest dregs of MAGA -- the bootlickers, Q-anon conspiracists, careerist cowards, crypto-bros. The Twitter trolls and theocrats who think that Putin is a misunderstood genius and NATO is a scam.
Trump has made it his business to take every legitimate American interest and douse it in the urine of his own ego. Trump’s sympathies lie not with democracies under fire, but with tyrants who flatter him.
Putin, Kim, Orban, bin Thani, MBS, Milei—if you want Trump’s admiration, don’t fight for freedom. Just compliment him and suggest that he receive the Nobel peace prize.
The tragedy here isn’t merely that Trump is ignorant. It’s that he’s willfully so.
He is the spiritual heir to every demagogue and know-nothing who ever mistook cruelty for toughness and betrayal for diplomacy. Trump’s “peace plan” is a con job, a cheap surrender masquerading as statesmanship and charity.
The only thing it would achieve is giving Putin exactly what he wants: time, territory, and Western fracture.
Zelensky, for his part, showed more restraint than most saints, as he did in a previous trip to the house Trump is currently tearing apart.
He did not rise to Trump’s bait.
He did not walk out, slam the door, or call Trump what many of us wish we could call him every day.
This man of steel, forged in the fiery hell of Russia’s genocidal attacks on Ukraine, reportedly endured the outburst because his country needs support.
It doesn’t need drama.
In that moment, the man from Kyiv towered over the man quack from Queens in every measurable sense.
Zelensky, of course, is everything Trump is not: brave, resolute, respected by free nations. And Trump, like all cheap frauds confronted by the real article, can only recoil in fury.
Thus the tantrum. Thus the shouting. Thus Trump’s open desire to let Putin finish the job.
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Don’t be fooled. Donald Trump wants Ukraine to be fed to the wolves and America’s soul right along with it. We must support leaders who will not let him get away with it.
Because we’ve yet again been reminded that Trump is not just unfit for office. He is antithetical to it. The precise inverse of everything the U.S. presidency is supposed to mean and represent.
He is the symptom of a degenerative Republican political disease: the elevation of celebrity over character, truculence over truth, and raw, unfiltered ego over the lives of men, women, children, and whole nations.
History will judge Trump on the Russia-Ukraine war.
The only question is whether we will judge ourselves before it is too late for Ukraine.
And for America.
Trump is a black mark on America & its history.
Why would anyone have put a nothing but a Reality TV Show Host into our WH. That was INSANE. Someone, is writing a script for him to follow. You need to find out who that someone is and make the punishment strong enough for all to see, so it never happens again in AMERICA.