The first order of business in the world of politics.
Because I don't know if y'all saw what the hell happened on TV today live, national television, live, international television as well, y'all got to see this if y'all haven't said it, because that's exactly where I'm getting started. It's in the nation's capital with a nation saw a President Donald Trump and Vice President JD. Vance have a testy
exchange with Ukrainian President Vladi Mayor Zelenski. It all happened in front of reporters during their meeting at the White House this afternoon, with the camera's roll laying keep that in mind. During the meeting, Trump called the Ukrainian president disrespectful end quote, and said, quote, you don't have the cards end quote when it comes to resolving the current
war versus Russia. Just to put this in perspective, this three minutes of video, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you it is worth every second for you to listen to this. I did not want to take this out this It'll be about three minutes. It is worth listening to this exchange between Zelensky, Vice President Vance, and President Trump in the Oval Office with the cameras rolling for the nation to see live.
Check it out.
What kind of diplomacy gg US became involved? What do you what do you what do you mean?
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. But mister President, mister President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict into Craine.
That do you say, what problems we have?
I have been to I have actually I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, bring them on a propaganda tour. Mister president, are do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people in your military? And do you think that respectful once to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to trying to prevent the destruction of your country.
A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning. First, wall during the war. Everybody has problems, even you, But you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the fusion.
God, bless you don't know that.
Blessed, you're blessed. You don't tell us what we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
I'm not telling you because you're in no position to dictate that.
Remember this, you're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel. We're going to feel very good, feel influenced. We're gonna feel very good and very strong.
It will feel influenced.
You're right now not in a very good position. You've allowed you in a very bad position about the very beginning of the war. Not in a good position. You don't have the cards right now with us. You start having right now. You're playing. You're gambling with their lives and millions of people. You're gambling with world War three. You're gambling with world War three. And what you're doing
is very disrespectful to the country. This country. It's back to you far more than a lot of people said they should have.
Have you said thank you once this entire meeting. No, in this entire meeting, and you said thank you. You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
Please, you're seeing that if you will, speak were loudly about the war.
He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble. No, No, you've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble. I know winning.
You're not winning this.
You have a damn good chance of coming out okay, because.
Of the president.
We're staying Yanawa country, staying strong. From the very beginning of the war, we've been alone and we are thankful.
I said, we gave you, through this stupid president, three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Will we gave your military equipment.
You and you met are.
Brave, but they had to use our military one of all, if you didn't have our military equipment, I mean, you didn't have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks.
In three days, I heard it from Putin in three days. This is something maybe less in two weeks.
Of course, yes, it's.
Going to be a very hard thing to do business like this.
Shortly afterwards, Zelinsky left the White House without signing a deal for the US to receive revenue from Ukraine's mineral supply in exchange for military assistance. President Trump said he's quote determined that President Zelinsky is not ready for peace if America is involved.
End quote. I'm pro America. Let me get that out the way first.
I'm an American citizen, and I'm going to try to give us the benefit of the doubt, knowing that we have an abundance of flaws as a nation in terms of our historical involvement in foreign affairs.
There is no doubt about that.
On one hand, there are two sides to this story. On one hand, if your president Selenski for Ukraine, who did campaign, I shouldn't say campaign, but was very supportive, as Vice President Vance pointed out, very supportive of the Body of the administration because they did give you over three hundred and fifty million dollars, they did give you nearly a five hundred million worth of weapons, or they
committed to that. Knowing the level of support that the Body and administration had given to Ukraine, how vociferous Biden was in his support for Ukraine. And by the way, that's going across the yall because you got Cenator Lindsay Graham on the Republican side, there has also been an avid supporter of Ukraine and their mission toward off Russia
taking over their sovereign territory. I would look at Zelensky and I would say, not very smart to be butting heads with this administration, this White House at that particular moment in time. Trump is not wrong when he said you don't have all the cards. You don't have the cards. He's absolutely right about that, because Zelensky does not, Ukraine does not.
It's projected that over a million.
Lives have been lost, vast majority of them being from Ukraine. And when you're in an a war to a war torn country and you don't have the muscle and the mic, and Russia has already been gaining ground, it might behoove you to come across as a bit more cordial with the president President of the United States. Fair enough, that does not negate the fact that Trump Advance came across as bullies. It does not negate the fact that Vance brought up something as trivial, talking about you should say
thank you and accusing him of being disrespectful. When Vance was the one that was talking and then Zalyinsky, they said it's your turn to speak, and Zalynsky said, hey, have you been to Ukraine?
Do you know how many people we're in a war experiencing it?
And when he asked Vice President Advance that he'd been there, he stumbled before acknowledging he hadn't been there. He had read and saw footage of what's happened in the Ukraine. It's safe to say that's not the same as being there. And for me personally, I didn't look at Zelensky is disrespectful.
I looked at him trying to get in.
A word because I looked at the Vice President chastising him for not being grateful, and the President piggybacking off of that to pounce on him some more about not understanding his plight and being thankful for the ceasefire that America has intervened to try and negotiate so this war
between Russian and Ukraine can come to an end. Now, is it wrong for President Trump to finagle his way into the proceedings to get some of their minerals in exchange for US support or in an effort to recoup something for what they've given out to Ukraine.
Not at all.
As the United States of America, we're giving and giving and giving those at tax payer dollars, we have a right to get something in return if we can pull it off. I get that part. I'm not disagreeing with President Trump about that. See, this is where the centrist in me comes in. I'm not siding with Trump just because I got conservative views, and I'm not siding with Zelensky just because I have liberal views. I'm siding with
common sense. Zelensky, knowing how much you need America's support, you need to be a bit more cordial and play a little nicer than that. The flip side to it is that he's at war. He has to depart from the United States of America go back to Ukraine in a war torn country with Bob's being dropped on his people, on his territory.
I'm saying, wait a minute, y'all are talking to me like.
I should have no sensitivity to my plight or to my people and should just throw out my arms and surrender. And capitulate to what Trump is negotiated. Let's hold on for a second here during the body and I'm sorry doing the Obama administration. In twenty fourteen, Russia did take over Crimea, if I remember correctly, that did happen. And when they took over Crimea, that was a part of Ukraine. Now its establishes Russian territory. And for Russia to start this war with Ukraine to take over.
Parts of mainland Ukraine, they're right there to do it.
And Zalinski was interrupted when he was making the point that when we negotiated back then, the negotiation that involved France, England and others said it was going to be a cease fire. Putin disavowed that, ignored it, and ultimately restarted war in twenty twenty two. So what he's saying is a cease fire isn't enough.
Now.
We need security that we don't have to concern ourselves with Putin ultimately invading more of our territory moving forward, to just stop the fighting for the time being.
He can't be trusted.
And what trumping them is saying is, well, you better trust him by trusting us, because this is the best that you're going to get.
Well.
The Ukrainian is a saying we have war.
Now, we on death door, on death's door, we might as well go down.
Swinging ladies and gentlemen. Who are we to.
Argue with that position? Who are we to argue with that position? This man is the leader of Ukraine. Despite the fact that quote unquote, according to Trump, they are losing the war. There is no doubt that they have fought valiantly. Even Trump admitted their soldiers have fought valiantly orbit with US weapons.
I don't want to hear that they fought valiantly. That's what they did.
Pool is considered a dictator, has been labeled a murder on all of this other stuff, and the only person that speaks glowingly about him is Trump.
I'm talking about what he says.
I'm not talking about what he does because I don't have all the into then tell about what he's done with or for Rusher.
But come on, this man.
Zelensky is at war, defending the very survival of his nation, and he's telling you that a ceasefire.
Ain't gonna cut the mustard.
Because this man Putin has ignored ceasefire ceasefire agreement before and what he needs is security that the war will come to an end, and it won't be a cease fire. It will be protection by the involvement of the United States or anybody else to ensure that he no longer attacks, not that he just stops for the time being. And
he's saying that this agreement doesn't provide that. And we're going to engage in condemnation about this man and be petty and talk about how you come into the Oval Office in the United States of America.
Well, sir, how did he do that? President Trump? How did he do that? Vice President Vance? He didn't come into.
The Oval Office on his own, by the way, he didn't have his interpreter either. He came in there by himself. Y'all are interrupting him.
Listen, that's like.
Me speaking Spanish or Francis if I know the language a little bit. Could you at least be quiet and let me speak, because it's a challenge for me to speak your language. It's a challenge for him to speak fluent English. It's a challenge for him to make sure that he coachingly and fluently gets his thoughts across. Could you have let him finish speaking? Vance didn't do that. Trump didn't do that. So, no, Zelensky didn't handle it right, And no, he should not have been as contankerous as
a politician. As a leader, you have to be a bit more composed than that.
Guilty is charged. But that ain't his oval office, that's ours.
The person residing in it is Donald Trump is the President of the United States with Dvance. Dear Zolensky ain't there without their invite. Those cameras are not there without Trump and his administrations invite.
They allowed that environment to exist.
This is Zelenski and Ukraine facilitating all of this.
This was them, and we're gonna just look at him like he's the villain.
Can we at least acknowledge that there must be a level of understanding to the fact that the man is fighting for Ukraine's very survival as a sovereign nation and that the circumstances upon which he's living in which he's scheduled to go back to is not the same as President Trump and Vice President Vance and what they have to deal with here in the United States of America. They may have been right in some of the things that they were saying.
But they were also bullies and this man.
Who's literally on the battlefield responded, whether it's a soldier or a general or whatever, that's how he responded. Because they ain't the ones that got bombs being dropped on them.
He does.
On their hospitals, on their schools, on childcare facilities, everywhere. I'm sorry, I'm not saying that President Trump and Vice President Vance was totally wrong and the things that they were saying. Once again, the art of the quorum and decency play a role in.
All of this. You could actually do both and be right.
You didn't have to do that. For all we know, Zelensky might be dead in a month for a bomb being dropped on some place where he's at. We ain't worried about.
That, were President Trump and Vice President Vance.
America hasn't lost nearly a million lives in this war over the last two years.
I mean, damn, that's all I'm saying.
We ain't talking politics conservative, liberal, We're talking about leadership from our statesman, the President of the United States.
And how that hand that I was handled.
It looked elementary, it was embarrassing, and Zelenski didn't handle it right. But if your country was being bombed into oblivion and you needed assistance, and the President of the United States was speaking more favorably about Putin than he was about you. And then you were getting lectured by the Vice President who's never been to Ukraine, who hasn't seen the worn, torn territory, and he's getting on you
for not being grateful. How would you have reacted. I don't know I answer to that question, but I know it's a legitimate, damn question.