Speaker 1: So Donald Trump didn't just embarrass the United States this weekend,
he actually humiliated it. He humiliated all of us, and
he did it while standing directly next to a wartime president,
literally while parroting Vladimir Putin's talking points like I don't
know some junior associate desperate to please his boss. Welcome
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Mara a Lago for this matter, it's endless. Now, what
we saw during Trump's meeting with President Zelenski, it's not
called diplomacy, not by a long shot. It's not even strategy.
It's not even confusion. It's submission. So let's walk through
what Trump actually said, clip by clip, and why every
single word matters. Let me start with the statement, because
it tells you everything that you need to know where
literally Trump's head and where his loyalties lie. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, in your conversation with President Putin, did you
discuss what responsibility Russia will have for.
Speaker 3: Any kind of reconstruction of Ukraine posted agreement I did.
They're going to be helping Russia is going to be helping.
Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed once. It sounds a
little strange, but I was explaining to the president. President
Putin was very generous in his feeling towards Ukraine succeeding,
including a supplying energy, electricity and other things at very
low prices. So a lot of good things came out
of that call today, but they were in the works
for two weeks with Steve and with Jared and Marco
and everybody.
Speaker 1: Wait, did I just hear what I thought I heard?
I mean, really, Russia wants Ukraine to succeed. If you're
not calling bullshit as I am right now, well, maybe
I have to play the clip for you again, because
over the course of the weekend, you had more than
ten hours of shelling into Kiev, killing several and injuring
many dozens. Let's rewatch President Zelenski's face as Trump was
saying this, play the clip.
Speaker 3: Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed once. It sounds a
little strange, but I was explaining to the president.
Speaker 1: Uh, President Putin, Yeah, I mean He literally wanted to
stand up and if he had the courage, if he
had the ability, he would have stood up and said,
mister President, with all who respect, I got to call
bullshit on that. The only thing that Russia wants of
Ukraine is Ukraine. Now here's the crazy thing. It actually
gets worse. Trump drags his personal grievance into this global war.
Play the clip.
Speaker 3: If the election weren't rigged and stolen twenty twenty, you
wouldn't have had this war would have never happened. And
it didn't happen for four years, never was even thought
to happen. And I spoke with President Putin. I got
along with him very well, despite the Russia Russia Russia hoax,
which was a total hoax.
Speaker 1: Okay, so and I agree the Russia Russia Russia it
was a hoax. I got dragged into it. I in
fact went to prison for it. I get it. I
get it. You're angry, but right now you have people dying,
you have Russia shelling Ukraine, you have the Ukrainian president
standing in front of you, a wartime president whose people
are being killed, by the way, along with Russia's people
are being killed, and you're still talking about a twenty
twenty election. Meanwhile, then comes the moment that literally should
have ended any illusion about what Trump's true role here
is when a reporter asks him about the ceasefire. Play
the clip.
Speaker 3: Steve and with Jared and Marco and everybody.
Speaker 2: Russell agree or to Puton agree to a cease fire
to allow or referendum to take not a ceasefire.
Speaker 3: And that's one of the points that we're working on
right now now. Not a cease fire. He feels that, look,
you know, they're fighting and to stop and then if
they have to start again, which is a possibility, he
doesn't want to be in that position. I understand that position.
The president feels strongly about that or something. But I
think we're finding ways that we can get around that.
But I understand President Putin from that standpoint. You know,
you have to understand the other side, and you know,
I'm on the side of peace. I'm on the side
of stopping the war. So but I think that's that's
the problem that's going to get solved him.
Speaker 1: What do you mean that you're on both sides that
you know you understand Putin? Does it not ring something
very similar to when he said that there are good
people on both sides when he was talking about the
white supremacist the clan, I should say the neo Nazis
walking down the streets in Charlottesville screaming Jews will not
replace us. There are not good people on both sides.
Russia invaded a sovereign nation, Ukraine, plain and simple. What
is it that you get? Oh yeah, the theft of
the oil in the dombas, the theft of the rare
earth materials, the land itself. Next, of course, Trump brags
about how long he spoke to Putin, as if that's
some sort of a major accomplishment. Yeah, we spoke, We spoke.
Play the clip.
Speaker 3: So look, I was on the phone with him for
almost I guess two and a half hours. They're just
telling me, now, it's a long time. We discussed a
lot of things. We didn't talk about the weather. We
weren't talking about how what a beautiful day is in Pomby, Florida.
Speaker 1: Let me be clear about something I would love, and
I mean love to see the transcript, because they are
supposed to put it out there. I am very curious
as to what they spoke about for two and a
half hours. It doesn't take two and a half hours.
I mean, this is not his first phone call with Putin.
It is simply it is simply just a conversation to
turn around into show that he and Putin have a relationship.
I would love to see what they talked about. And
you know what, I wouldn't be shocked if they talked
about the language, or I should say, the weather. Then
Trump of course threatened Ukraine. He threatens Ukraine while the
Ukrainian wartime president is standing next to him. And how
did he do it by using Russia's own language? Play
the clip.
Speaker 3: Something that comes up, I'd speak, but otherwise I don't
think there's any reason too in your.
Speaker 2: Mind, sir, what are the Thornius issues still unresolved?
Speaker 3: After the name? Well, I think the land you're talking about,
some of that land has been taken. Some of that
land is maybe a for grabs, but it may be
taken over the next period of a number of months,
and you better have making a deal. Now. Look, let
me tell you they have been very brave. They fought
very hard and continue to fight very hard.
Speaker 1: Four years they're fighting. In fact, more than a million
Russian soldiers dead, so many Russian soldiers on the battlefield dead,
that there was no way that they were able to
bury them, so they brought in mobile crematoriums. Imagine that.
And the worst part, many of the family members back
in Russia don't even know that their family, that their sons,
their husbands, et cetera, are deceased. Now, I also want
you to listen to Trump's response when he was asked
about nearly one hundred Americans that have been killed fighting
in Ukraine. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: You were saying that you've said multiple times that you
want to stop the killing, and nearly one hundred American
citizens guy in Ukraine on the battlefield. What's your message
to their family who's loved ones died fighting.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I mean the message is so obvious. It's
what a shame. They died in a country, a foreign country,
and some are celebrated people, they're very celebrated. But so
said that a thing like that would happen.
Speaker 1: There's no answer there. He doesn't even know what to say.
So you state what the obvious, they died in a
foreign land fighting a war. Amazing, And I want I
bring that up because I actually want to contrast that
with what actual leadership really looks like. I want to
show you the clip of Prime Minister of Canada Mark
Karney and Zelensky having the same conversation. Played the clip.
Speaker 4: Welcome, thank you for taking this time. This at a
crucial moment in this process.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Under President Zelenski's leadership, we have the conditions the possibility
of a just and lasting peace, but that requires a
will in Russia. And the barbarism that we saw overnight
the attack on Keith shows just how important it is
that we stand with Ukraine during this difficult time and
that we create the conditions for this just and lasting
piece and a true reconstruction. And I want to underscore
something that has happened in recent weeks is that the
development of that possibility under your leadership, and also the
prospect of true prosperity for the Ukrainian people. I'll just
finish with one point. On Canada, we've provided military assistant,
further military assistance. We're announcing today further economic assistance for
you two and a half billion dollars worth of economic
assistance that helps unlocked financing from the IMACO, from the
World Bank, from the European Bank for reconstruction and development
to begin this process of rebuilding.
Speaker 1: We have an.
Speaker 4: Important bilateral meeting and then a meeting virtually with our
colleagues from the coalition of the willing EPIDO.
Speaker 1: Look, you have on one hand, someone like Mark Karney,
who displays leadership, diplomacy and empathy. On the other hand,
you have Steve Whitcoff, Marco Rubio, and Jared Kushner. You know,
over the course of the weekend, before I actually give
you my sum up onto it, I want to put
this all together. Trump praises Putin while he has this
wartime Presidents Alenski standing at his side, dismisses the entire
concept of a ceasefire. I mean, that's what I thought
the entire mar a Lago trip was all about. He
threatens Ukraine with land loss. He shows an indifference to
the Americans, the one hundred Americans that have died in
Ukraine on the battlefield. He coordinates calls with the Kremlin,
and then he walks into critical meetings completely unprepared. This
is not strength, This isn't deal making. This is submission.
And the reason that I broke it all down clip
by clip for you is because this kind of behavior,
it only survives if we allow it to be normalized.
In fact, let me say this, over the course of
the weekend on my substack, I posted something called Ukraine's
Peace awaiting Trump's approval. I couldn't believe when I saw this,
as Kiev bleeds, Trump treats peace like a personal endorsement,
turning war, death, and diplomacy into a loyalty test for
his ego and the nobel fantasy. I finished my sub
stack article by turning on saying, last night, while Kiev
burned for ten straight hours under Russian missiles and drones,
our president was busy polishing his imaginary nobel peace price.
Bodies were being pulled from rubble, Hospitals were running on generators.
Families were sleeping in basements and subway systems. Families, families,
and yet somehow, miraculously, our president manages to make it
all about himself. This is what we need to stop.
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