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Anybody who watched the entire Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky would know that it was not an “ambush” or a “setup” by Trump, as characterized by Democrats and malign media entities.
It was the opposite. If anyone came to that meeting in bad faith, it was clearly Zelensky, whose body language and attitude was negative from the start. Trump could not have been more cordial, having steered the complex negotiations with Russia and Ukraine to a first step where he believed peace was a real possibility.
But Zelensky had other ideas. He contradicted, interrupted and insulted Trump, even before Vice President JD Vance said a word.
It was 11 minutes in when Zelensky first contradicted Trump with a gratuitous defense of Europe’s financial support for the war, which Trump repeatedly has said was less than America’s.
“President Trump said that they made less support but they are our friends and they are our very supportive partners. They really gave a lot, Mr. President.”
Trump responded: “They gave a lot but they gave much less.”
“No,” said Zelensky.
“Much less,” said Trump.
“No,” repeated Zelensky. “Nooooo, no.”
Trump smiled and flicked him jokingly to make the exchange look like light-hearted banter.
“OK,” said Trump, ending it.
“OK,” said Zelensky smirking.
As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said later, if Zelensky wanted to contradict Trump, “the proper venue for that would have been 15 minutes later [when] we were going to walk into the White House dining room and have lunch, just 16 of us.
“I actually think he was always going to do this and I think he was surprised by the forceful reaction he got back,” Bessent told Fox News.
Pre-deranged meeting
At the end of the meeting, when he’d blown up the whole deal, Zelensky smirked and gave the thumbs up to someone off camera among the press pack.
Never mind that his ambassador was sitting a few feet away watching the debacle unfold with her head in her hands.
There is no excuse to misconstrue who was to blame for blowing up the meeting and jeopardizing the peace deal because it all played out live on camera for almost an hour.
But misconstrue it bad people did, and for base political motivations, skewed by a good dose of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Zelensky himself seems to suffer from the affliction, and his inability to understand the situation he was in should disqualify him from leading Ukraine in the future. That, of course, is up to the Ukrainian people, or perhaps their generals — although since two-thirds of Ukraine’s media outlets have received some, if not most, of their funding from USAID, it’s likely Ukrainians have never received the unvarnished truth about their wartime president, an actor who cosplays as a soldier.
Now Trump’s creative “Art of the Deal” effort to end the war lies in tatters, just as his enemies here and abroad wanted. They could not tolerate that Trump, who thumbed his nose at all their sacred cows, would be successful in ending the war. If Trump succeeded, then it would expose warmongers on both sides of Congress and in Europe as incompetent or far worse.
So Trump’s enemies are now using the million dead souls of the Ukraine war to spawn a new Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, their fourth by my count.
First there the fake Steele Dossier, which spawned the Mueller investigation, which eventually cleared Trump but crippled his first presidency. Next, Trump was impeached for asking Zelensky on a 2019 phone call to look into Joe Biden and his crackhead son Hunter’s role with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that began paying Hunter a million dollars a year from April 2014, after the Maidan revolution installed a US-vassal regime, answerable to then-VP Biden.
Third was the “Laptop From Hell” saga in October 2020, when the “Dirty 51” intelligence officials lied that Hunter’s abandoned laptop was Russian disinformation and the FBI pre-bunked the story to social media companies as a Russian “hack and leak operation” so that the New York Post was censored by Facebook and Twitter when it published evidence from the laptop incriminating Joe Biden in Hunter’s international influence peddling schemes, including in Ukraine.
So intertwined is the laptop and Biden corruption with the current mess in Ukraine that Trump brought it up in the contentious Oval Office meeting with Zelensky on Friday.
“It came out of Hunter Biden‘s bathroom,” he said. “It came out of Hunter Biden’s bedroom. It was disgusting.
“And then they said, oh, oh, the ‘laptop from hell’ was made by Russia. The 51 agents. The whole thing was a scam.”
Needling
Trump raised the laptop in the context of all the Russia witch hunts that recklessly heightened tensions with Putin.
“Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. . . . That was a phony Hunter Biden, Joe Biden scam. Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff. It was a Democrat scam. And Putin had to go through that [but] we didn’t end up in a war.
“All I can say is this: He might have broken deals with Obama and Bush, and he might have broken them with Biden . . . I don’t know what happened, but he didn’t break them with me. He wants to make a deal.”
In response to a reporter’s question suggesting he was “aligned with Putin,” Trump replied: “I’m not aligned with Putin. . . . I’m aligned with the United States of America, and for the good of the world. . . . You want me to say really terrible things about Putin and then say, ‘Hi, Vladimir. How are we doing on the deal?’ It doesn’t work that way.”
Zelensky kept needling, refusing to look at Trump as he spoke, in contrast to Trump’s rapt attention on him. He ruled out a cease-fire, lectured Trump on history and “the rule of war” and was increasingly disrespectful and argumentative while Trump remained polite.
At 23 minutes in, Zelensky was ranting about how many agreements Putin had broken. Trump interjected: “He never broke [his word] to me,” something Bill Clinton also once said.
Zelensky rudely contradicted him: “No, no, you were the president, you were the president. . . . In 2016, you were the president. You’ve been the president, Mr. President. You’ve been the president.”
Then Zelensky described the minerals deal he was there to sign as “2%,” after Trump had earlier described it as “98%” of the pathway to peace.
Provocation
At 31 minutes, Zelensky said: “You have big, nice ocean, between us, but if we will not stay [fighting], Russia will go further to Baltics and to Poland. It’s a fact, and [then] you will fight, your American soldiers. It doesn’t matter, do you have ocean, or not, your soldiers will fight.”
This was a severe provocation and yet Trump kept his cool.
It was another seven minutes before Vance piped up. He was sitting opposite Zelensky and had a better view of his insolent body language than Trump.
Even then Vance was measured: “The path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy. What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy. That’s what President Trump is doing.”
That set Zelensky off and his rudeness finally demanded a response from Trump.
“We’re trying to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel, because you’re in no position to dictate that.”
The rest is tragic history.
Zelensky ambushed Trump. He just got more than he bargained for.
Now it’s up to Europe at its summit on Thursday to make Ukraine see reason, because the country can’t survive without America.