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Source: Trump, Vance ‘Caught Off Guard by Zelensky’s Offensive Antics’
Breitbart ^ | 02/28/2025 | Bradley Jaye

Posted on 02/28/2025 2:22:33 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were expecting a consequential but standard Oval Office appearance with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.

Their appearance was anything but routine.

The meeting to announce a rare earth materials agreement between Ukraine and the United States as part of a pathway to peace between Ukraine and Russia deteriorated quickly after a combative Zelensky protested U.S. desire to draw down the long war.

“The president and vice president were caught off guard by Zelensky’s offensive antics,” a source familiar told Breitbart News.

Zelensky suggested Ukraine had been fighting the war alone, insisting more aid from the West was needed to provide leverage in continuing, not ending, the war.

He went as far as suggesting the U.S. would “feel” the consequences of war, in response to Vance telling Zelensky the U.S. was trying to bring an end to the European conflict.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antics; caught; gaurd; littlezimplodes; off; offensive; pimpmywar; source; ukrcorruption; vance; zelenskys; zman
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I find this to be a 100 percent true....

Everyone in the whole wide world was surprised.

21 posted on 02/28/2025 2:36:53 PM PST by gloryblaze
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It looked to me like Trump the negotiator lost control of the negotiation...but did he or is it all part of a ploy we don’t understand?


22 posted on 02/28/2025 2:37:15 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (c)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The plot thickens: An unconfirmed rumor on X is saying that Blinken, Rice, Nuland, and Vindman advised Zelensky.

don't let Trump bully you
23 posted on 02/28/2025 2:37:25 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

They can deal with it all by themselves for all I care (anymore)


24 posted on 02/28/2025 2:39:05 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: redgolum
Cocaine makes you do silly things

So does not having it when you want it. Maybe the agent who was supposed to put it in the small storage locker got fired.

25 posted on 02/28/2025 2:39:39 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (We are all. We are all alone. We are all-one.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

If so, a clear violation of The Logan Act.


26 posted on 02/28/2025 2:39:46 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I wasn't caught off guard.

I expected as much.

My comment from yesterday predicting he would be sent home.

2/27/2025, 10:35:16 AM · 9 of 47 Biblebelter to ChicagoConservative27 I don’t think the minature poodle has been properly trained and house broken. I fully expect him to not play nice and accept his time on the world stage is nearly over. Expect him to bark as loudly as he can and leave do-do on the floor before he is put back on a leash and flown back from where he came.

27 posted on 02/28/2025 2:39:57 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Everyone lost their cool in front of the cameras today and Putin may have won the war as a result.


28 posted on 02/28/2025 2:41:13 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: NoLibZone

I really can’t believe that this guy has taken so much money and support from us, keeps asking for more, but can’t bother to put on a suit even when he’s politely informed that it’s protocol.

He’s a stupid drama queen. The Ukrainian people should demand his resignation and a new election.


29 posted on 02/28/2025 2:42:42 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: UCANSEE2

LOL

Just about lost my keep board spitting up that tea


30 posted on 02/28/2025 2:43:46 PM PST by redgolum
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To: dfwgator

Arrest them all immediately, if they did and it wouldn’t surprise me one bit


31 posted on 02/28/2025 2:44:00 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Midwesterner53

Everyone lost their cool? Trump and Vance did a great job of restraining themselves in the face of Z’s petulance, arrogance and disrespect. Z definitely lost to Putin today, but that was inevitable, anyway.


32 posted on 02/28/2025 2:44:58 PM PST by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: Lurker

Zelensky is about to be removed from office.


33 posted on 02/28/2025 2:45:02 PM PST by samiam5
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Zelensky made a side deal with China he would WANT to blow up the deal. What other motivation is there to sabotage a deal that will end a war? A ‘better’ offer?


34 posted on 02/28/2025 2:46:50 PM PST by GOPJ (Delta just Bud Lighted themselves - freeper dfwgator)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ukraine Congress agreed to the agreement and Zelenski was supposed to sign.

That blond bimbo that runs the EU tweeted the Europeans stand behind Ukraine. Fine, write the checks and donate military equipment. We have other things to worry about.


35 posted on 02/28/2025 2:47:57 PM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: Kid Shelleen
The plot thickens: An unconfirmed rumor on X is saying that Blinken, Rice, Nuland, and Vindman advised Zelensky.

Ever since Vietnam, I’ve been convinced that the democrat party is the enemy of the USA.

Just as we discovered that USAID has been funding our enemies, we will discover that the democrat party has plotted to destroy our civilization in order to impose slavery on us.

36 posted on 02/28/2025 2:48:03 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: dfwgator
No doubt in my mind that traitors are going to sabotage everything Trump tries .
37 posted on 02/28/2025 2:48:11 PM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: GOPJ
I agree.

He has to realize he cannot win the war, he just can't. Also, getting help from other countries won't help him win it either--it can only prolong the misery.

Why can't he understand that?

38 posted on 02/28/2025 2:49:11 PM PST by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: Lurker

Who speaks Ukrainian?

“Wow, did Zelensky actually call JD Vance “Сука(Bitch)”? 😬”

https://x.com/alex_oloyede2/status/1895601231315575275?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA


39 posted on 02/28/2025 2:49:27 PM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They still could have reached a minerals deal.


40 posted on 02/28/2025 2:49:46 PM PST by Kleon
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