US president said his horrific blow-up would make ‘great television’ – the White House has never seen anything like it

Summary

Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history, with flared tempers, raised voices, and shredded protocol.

Never before has a U.S. president bullied and berated an adversary, never mind an ally, in such a public way.

During a tense Oval Office meeting, Trump and JD Vance attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, demanding he accept a peace deal with Russia or lose U.S. support.

The conversation devolved into shouting, with Trump accusing Zelenskyy of being ungrateful and “gambling with World War III.”

The meeting ended in chaos, with no agreement reached.

  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I’m not American but wouldn’t that mean Vance becomes president? It’s tempting to think he couldn’t be any worse, but trump likes the fucker so who knows?

    • masinko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 minutes ago

      The main benefit of it is a lot of the MAGA movement will wither with him gone. Someone will be a successor to it, but I don’t think anyone is as influential to that movement as he is.

    • merdaverse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Honestly, Vance seems even worse to me. Trump has that embarrassing grandpa vibe and he seems too stupid to make any important decisions on his own or realize what he’s doing. Vance gives me a determined murderous intent vibe.

    • wall_panel_96@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      After watching the trump, JD, zelensky situation, I lost a big of respect for JD. He acted like a twat. Trump is definitely a better president than him. President that is. They are both douchebags, but so far doing good for the country.

      • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        I’m curious, what good do you see trump doing for the country? It seems to me that he’s doing a lot of harm but we probably have differing views

        • wall_panel_96@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          Woman only gof woman’s sports, sounds fair to me. Ending corruption in politics, giving doldeierx who lost their jobs for not taking the experimental jab back their jobs, revealing the jfk, mlk files, trying to reveal the Epstein files, improving efficiency in government spending of hard earned taxpayer dollars, ending wars etc etc. safely his personality has gotten in the way of some of those, but do far, so good. I’m dick of people ignoring all the clear good he has done and just screaming ‘nazi’ and ‘hitler’ which is an inst to anybody award if history. Those words involve pure evil. Don’t use them in vain. If trump starts sending people to gas Chambers and murdering races ge didn’t like, I’ll be there with you screaming ‘nazi Hitler’ at the top of my lungs, that’s not reality though.

          • webadict@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            27 minutes ago

            Can women be in men’s sports?

            What about the veterans who lost their government job?

            What efficiency has been created?

            What if he starts concentration camps, is that enough to compare Trump to Hitler? Or does it have to specifically be death camps? What if people in those concentrations camps just disappeared and nobody cound find them, would that count?

            • wall_panel_96@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 hour ago

              Explain. What is bad about less corruption, more freedom of speech, less waste of taxpayer dollars, less wars, fair sports, less catering to the mentally ill, instead of yes manning them, actually offering them therapy, less racism, sexism etc, less dei. More catering to the 99.999% of the population.