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Book claims Bessent called Zelenskyy 'Mr Bean on crack' and urged Trump to bar him from Oval Office
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Posted on 06/21/2026 3:11:03 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe

WASHINGTON, DC: A blockbuster upcoming account of the second Trump administration has exposed deep, profane fractures within American foreign policy, revealing that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent privately launched an aggressive campaign to block Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from entering the White House.

The explosive details surface in 'Regime Change', a forthcoming book by The New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, which alleges that Bessent repeatedly used highly derogatory nicknames to describe the wartime leader to close associates before a disastrous Oval Office summit.

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The Treasury chief reportedly harbored deep frustrations over a stalled, high-stakes critical minerals agreement, explicitly warning that Zelenskyy was a highly unpredictable actor who should not be granted an audience with the executive branch until he signed the economic pact.

"I've dealt with this little f****r... He’s tricky. He’s like the special-needs child for the Europeans. And he’s acting like Mr Bean on crack," Bessent told associates, according to the leaked text.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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To: vaskypilot

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41 posted on 06/21/2026 7:46:54 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: USA-FRANCE

“That’s a display of weakness which might prove my point that you are potentially jealous about Zelensky.”

Your statement about me being jealous of the little effete homosexual makes me wonder, but then I noticed you are evidently French or live in France, so I realize that the rules of logic don’t apply to you.

But could you give me just one reason why I, living here in Louisiana, could possibly be jealous of Zelensky? What has he accomplished besides corruption and death?

Bessant was right about him and summed him up very accurately.


42 posted on 06/22/2026 3:18:59 AM PDT by odawg
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To: USA-FRANCE

Jealous? That’s laughable.
Reality- Zelenskiy is corrupt.
Have no use for him. And don’t suggest I like Putin. No.


43 posted on 06/22/2026 5:21:55 AM PDT by Ninaq (Nina)
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To: Tench_Coxe

That’s an insult to Mr. Bean - unlike the crossdressing stand-up comic running the Ukraine into the ground, Mr. Bean was actually funny.


44 posted on 06/22/2026 5:27:35 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Tench_Coxe

All he did was remind the president that Putin cannot be trusted. For that he was publicly humiliated. But of course he was right.


45 posted on 06/22/2026 5:31:23 AM PDT by marron
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To: Tench_Coxe; USA-FRANCE

The Ukrainians under Zelensky, though greatly outnumbered, have fought the Russians to a draw and cost them a million casualties. I believe in the end they will win this war. And Putin will not survive losing it.


46 posted on 06/22/2026 5:36:55 AM PDT by marron
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“….of the little effete homosexual….”

>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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You are insulting Zelensky, wrongly accusing him being a “homosexual”… even though he is happily married to a beautiful blonde woman.

While at the same time, and ironically, you have no problem with the openly gay Scott Bessent!

Your mind is truly confused !
Do you mean you are also pro LGBT, but only as long as it is American LGBT ?

I’m trying to understand your logic.

Here is Zelensky and his beautiful wife:
https://assets.vogue.com/photos/62db2ca6cc6d8918c28d7c8f/master/w_1600%2Cc_limit/VO1022_FirstLady_05.jpg

Versus :

Scott Bessent became the first openly gay person to lead the U.S. Treasury Department, the first openly gay U.S. Senate-confirmed Cabinet member in a Republican administration,[3] and the second openly gay U.S. Senate-confirmed Cabinet secretary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent#:~:text=Bessent%20became%20the%20first%20openly,U.S.%20Senate%2Dconfirmed%20Cabinet%20secretary.


47 posted on 06/22/2026 6:49:36 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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To: USA-FRANCE

“Your mind is truly confused !”

Who was it who said that when you engage in personal insults, you have already lost the argument?

However, screw off. As long as I have a wall to talk to, that is better than you.


48 posted on 06/22/2026 7:25:07 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Tench_Coxe

Bessent loves those gay videos - he is a gay guy.


49 posted on 06/22/2026 7:26:17 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: odawg

Being “confused” is not an insult.
It’s a feeling. Someone can feel sad, happy, confused, angry, intrigued, perplexed…

I for example feel “confused” right now because I see a minority of Republicans blindly believing in Kremlin propaganda instead of opening their own eyes.

At least, the information I gave you is 100% verifiable and true. You know that.

Believe in the truth! Why? Because TRUTH matters.


50 posted on 06/22/2026 9:16:25 AM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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To: Ninaq
Bessent is saying what many of us think. We have no use for Zelensky.

For some on this forum, anything less than worshipful towards Zelensky and Ukraine make one a "Russian troll" or a "Putin stooge". It never seems to occur to these idiots that one can dislike both Putin and Zelensky, albeit for different reasons, in much the same way as during the Iran-Iraq war one could dislike both and want nothing to do with either.

51 posted on 06/22/2026 11:46:36 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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