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Speaker 1: So Donald Trump didn't just embarrass the United States this weekend,

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he actually humiliated it. He humiliated all of us, and

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he did it while standing directly next to a wartime president,

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literally while parroting Vladimir Putin's talking points like I don't

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know some junior associate desperate to please his boss. Welcome

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back to The Michael Cone Show on our continued journey

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to now one million subscribers, and thanks to you again,

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we're actually getting there. So do me a favorite, hit, Subscribe, watch, comment,

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and share, because the stupidity coming out of DC or

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Mara a Lago for this matter, it's endless. Now, what

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we saw during Trump's meeting with President Zelenski, it's not

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called diplomacy, not by a long shot. It's not even strategy.

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It's not even confusion. It's submission. So let's walk through

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what Trump actually said, clip by clip, and why every

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single word matters. Let me start with the statement, because

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it tells you everything that you need to know where

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literally Trump's head and where his loyalties lie. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, in your conversation with President Putin, did you

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discuss what responsibility Russia will have for.

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Speaker 3: Any kind of reconstruction of Ukraine posted agreement I did.

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They're going to be helping Russia is going to be helping.

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Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed once. It sounds a

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little strange, but I was explaining to the president. President

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Putin was very generous in his feeling towards Ukraine succeeding,

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including a supplying energy, electricity and other things at very

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low prices. So a lot of good things came out

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of that call today, but they were in the works

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for two weeks with Steve and with Jared and Marco

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and everybody.

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Speaker 1: Wait, did I just hear what I thought I heard?

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I mean, really, Russia wants Ukraine to succeed. If you're

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not calling bullshit as I am right now, well, maybe

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I have to play the clip for you again, because

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over the course of the weekend, you had more than

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ten hours of shelling into Kiev, killing several and injuring

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many dozens. Let's rewatch President Zelenski's face as Trump was

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saying this, play the clip.

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Speaker 3: Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed once. It sounds a

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little strange, but I was explaining to the president.

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Speaker 1: Uh, President Putin, Yeah, I mean He literally wanted to

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stand up and if he had the courage, if he

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had the ability, he would have stood up and said,

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mister President, with all who respect, I got to call

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bullshit on that. The only thing that Russia wants of

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Ukraine is Ukraine. Now here's the crazy thing. It actually

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gets worse. Trump drags his personal grievance into this global war.

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Play the clip.

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Speaker 3: If the election weren't rigged and stolen twenty twenty, you

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wouldn't have had this war would have never happened. And

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it didn't happen for four years, never was even thought

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to happen. And I spoke with President Putin. I got

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along with him very well, despite the Russia Russia Russia hoax,

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which was a total hoax.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so and I agree the Russia Russia Russia it

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was a hoax. I got dragged into it. I in

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fact went to prison for it. I get it. I

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get it. You're angry, but right now you have people dying,

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you have Russia shelling Ukraine, you have the Ukrainian president

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standing in front of you, a wartime president whose people

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are being killed, by the way, along with Russia's people

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are being killed, and you're still talking about a twenty

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twenty election. Meanwhile, then comes the moment that literally should

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have ended any illusion about what Trump's true role here

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is when a reporter asks him about the ceasefire. Play

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the clip.

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Speaker 3: Steve and with Jared and Marco and everybody.

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Speaker 2: Russell agree or to Puton agree to a cease fire

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to allow or referendum to take not a ceasefire.

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Speaker 3: And that's one of the points that we're working on

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right now now. Not a cease fire. He feels that, look,

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you know, they're fighting and to stop and then if

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they have to start again, which is a possibility, he

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doesn't want to be in that position. I understand that position.

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The president feels strongly about that or something. But I

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think we're finding ways that we can get around that.

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But I understand President Putin from that standpoint. You know,

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you have to understand the other side, and you know,

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I'm on the side of peace. I'm on the side

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of stopping the war. So but I think that's that's

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the problem that's going to get solved him.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean that you're on both sides that

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you know you understand Putin? Does it not ring something

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very similar to when he said that there are good

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people on both sides when he was talking about the

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white supremacist the clan, I should say the neo Nazis

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walking down the streets in Charlottesville screaming Jews will not

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replace us. There are not good people on both sides.

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Russia invaded a sovereign nation, Ukraine, plain and simple. What

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is it that you get? Oh yeah, the theft of

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the oil in the dombas, the theft of the rare

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earth materials, the land itself. Next, of course, Trump brags

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about how long he spoke to Putin, as if that's

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some sort of a major accomplishment. Yeah, we spoke, We spoke.

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Speaker 3: So look, I was on the phone with him for

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almost I guess two and a half hours. They're just

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telling me, now, it's a long time. We discussed a

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lot of things. We didn't talk about the weather. We

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weren't talking about how what a beautiful day is in Pomby, Florida.

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Speaker 1: Let me be clear about something I would love, and

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supposed to put it out there. I am very curious

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as to what they spoke about for two and a

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half hours. It doesn't take two and a half hours.

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I mean, this is not his first phone call with Putin.

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It is simply it is simply just a conversation to

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turn around into show that he and Putin have a relationship.

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I would love to see what they talked about. And

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you know what, I wouldn't be shocked if they talked

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about the language, or I should say, the weather. Then

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Trump of course threatened Ukraine. He threatens Ukraine while the

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Ukrainian wartime president is standing next to him. And how

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did he do it by using Russia's own language? Play

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the clip.

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Speaker 3: Something that comes up, I'd speak, but otherwise I don't

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think there's any reason too in your.

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Speaker 2: Mind, sir, what are the Thornius issues still unresolved?

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Speaker 3: After the name? Well, I think the land you're talking about,

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some of that land has been taken. Some of that

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land is maybe a for grabs, but it may be

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taken over the next period of a number of months,

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and you better have making a deal. Now. Look, let

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me tell you they have been very brave. They fought

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very hard and continue to fight very hard.

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Speaker 1: Four years they're fighting. In fact, more than a million

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Russian soldiers dead, so many Russian soldiers on the battlefield dead,

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that there was no way that they were able to

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bury them, so they brought in mobile crematoriums. Imagine that.

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And the worst part, many of the family members back

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in Russia don't even know that their family, that their sons,

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their husbands, et cetera, are deceased. Now, I also want

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you to listen to Trump's response when he was asked

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about nearly one hundred Americans that have been killed fighting

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in Ukraine. Play the clip.

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Speaker 2: You were saying that you've said multiple times that you

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want to stop the killing, and nearly one hundred American

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citizens guy in Ukraine on the battlefield. What's your message

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to their family who's loved ones died fighting.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, I mean the message is so obvious. It's

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what a shame. They died in a country, a foreign country,

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and some are celebrated people, they're very celebrated. But so

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said that a thing like that would happen.

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Speaker 1: There's no answer there. He doesn't even know what to say.

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So you state what the obvious, they died in a

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foreign land fighting a war. Amazing, And I want I

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bring that up because I actually want to contrast that

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with what actual leadership really looks like. I want to

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show you the clip of Prime Minister of Canada Mark

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Karney and Zelensky having the same conversation. Played the clip.

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Speaker 4: Welcome, thank you for taking this time. This at a

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crucial moment in this process.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Under President Zelenski's leadership, we have the conditions the possibility

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of a just and lasting peace, but that requires a

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will in Russia. And the barbarism that we saw overnight

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the attack on Keith shows just how important it is

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that we stand with Ukraine during this difficult time and

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that we create the conditions for this just and lasting

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piece and a true reconstruction. And I want to underscore

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something that has happened in recent weeks is that the

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development of that possibility under your leadership, and also the

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prospect of true prosperity for the Ukrainian people. I'll just

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finish with one point. On Canada, we've provided military assistant,

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further military assistance. We're announcing today further economic assistance for

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you two and a half billion dollars worth of economic

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assistance that helps unlocked financing from the IMACO, from the

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World Bank, from the European Bank for reconstruction and development

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to begin this process of rebuilding.

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Speaker 1: We have an.

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Speaker 4: Important bilateral meeting and then a meeting virtually with our

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colleagues from the coalition of the willing EPIDO.

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Speaker 1: Look, you have on one hand, someone like Mark Karney,

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who displays leadership, diplomacy and empathy. On the other hand,

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you have Steve Whitcoff, Marco Rubio, and Jared Kushner. You know,

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over the course of the weekend, before I actually give

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you my sum up onto it, I want to put

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this all together. Trump praises Putin while he has this

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wartime Presidents Alenski standing at his side, dismisses the entire

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concept of a ceasefire. I mean, that's what I thought

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the entire mar a Lago trip was all about. He

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threatens Ukraine with land loss. He shows an indifference to

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the Americans, the one hundred Americans that have died in

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Ukraine on the battlefield. He coordinates calls with the Kremlin,

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and then he walks into critical meetings completely unprepared. This

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is not strength, This isn't deal making. This is submission.

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And the reason that I broke it all down clip

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by clip for you is because this kind of behavior,

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it only survives if we allow it to be normalized.

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In fact, let me say this, over the course of

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the weekend on my substack, I posted something called Ukraine's

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Peace awaiting Trump's approval. I couldn't believe when I saw this,

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as Kiev bleeds, Trump treats peace like a personal endorsement,

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turning war, death, and diplomacy into a loyalty test for

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his ego and the nobel fantasy. I finished my sub

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stack article by turning on saying, last night, while Kiev

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burned for ten straight hours under Russian missiles and drones,

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our president was busy polishing his imaginary nobel peace price.

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Bodies were being pulled from rubble, Hospitals were running on generators.

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Families were sleeping in basements and subway systems. Families, families,

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and yet somehow, miraculously, our president manages to make it

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all about himself. This is what we need to stop.

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So again, hit subscribe, watch, comment, and share, because only

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through our actions will we ensure that this behavior does

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not stay normalized and we end up everything around. And

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