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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Tuesday that he believed President Donald Trump found his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, more irritating than him because of his dishonesty. The comments were in response to a journalist directly asking Zelensky at a press event who he thought the White House was more annoyed with, him or Putin, after a week in which Trump has published increasingly frustrated statements condemning Putin for expanding attacks on civilians in Ukraine, according to the state outlet Ukrinform. The news agency published the remarks on Wednesday. Trump campaigned throughout 2024 on the promise of helping end...

President Volodymyr Zelensky has issued a plea to President Donald Trump to personally visit Ukraine and see the impact of the war himself, claiming that others simply can’t understand what’s happening without witnessing it first-hand. Ukraine’s President Zelensky has appealed to President Donald Trump to visit Ukraine, and argued that figures like Vice President JD Vance, Trump envoy Keith Kellogg, and United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio can’t understand Ukraine without seeing the battlefield. Asked whether he would invite Trump to Ukraine, Zelensky said in a now-published interview recorded on Friday: “With pleasure. Please. I always wanted very much,...

President Joe Biden believes he would have defeated President-elect Donald Trump in November if his party had not pressured him to step aside, he told USA Today‘s Susan Page. Biden, 82, whom Special Counsel David Hur characterized as an elderly man with a poor memory, does not appear to remember the depths of his sinking campaign. Biden dropped out of the race following a poor debate performance that caused his polling and support among allies to tank. Several states considered solid blue, such as New Hampshire and Virginia, were showing signs of leaning toward Trump, an unfathomable downward trajectory that...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former MSNBC host Chris Matthews stated that he believes President Joe Biden “thinks things are going on in this administration he doesn’t know about, that’s his problem. He’s not sure what isn’t true.” And therefore, can’t call out 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump effectively. After host Bill Maher said that Trump makes things up, Matthews stated, “Or he does it in a way that our President couldn’t catch him on it. He said last night, twice, that Social Security and Medicare are going to people in the country illegally, they...

ESPN turned into a running political talk show on Monday that centered around one man: President Trump. Trump’s battle with the NFL over national anthem protests dominated ESPN’s morning and afternoon shows, which at times sounded more like CNN than a sports channel. ESPN’s analysts were overwhelmingly critical of the president. ESPN host Stephen A. Smith claimed during one segment that Trump’s attack on the NFL was part of a nefarious “grand scheme” from the president. “I personally believe Donald Trump has a grand scheme, I think his aspiration is to own a network when this is all said and...

Ben Shapiro plans to release audio from interviews he conducted for his just-released book, Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, a little at a time in a strategy learned from Andrew Breitbart’s ACORN exposes. The strategy seems to be working pretty well; after debuting with Hot Air and Townhall yesterday, Ben gets the Hollywood Reporter to release a couple of juicy quotes on tape today from television producer Susan Harris (Golden Girls, Soap), legendary TV executive Fred Silverman, and even COPS creator John Langley, who says he prefers to choose segments based...

What white France thinks ... Interviews by Felix Lowe Sunday November 13, 2005 The Observer (UK) Pierre Purseigle, 30, Stipendiary Lecturer in Modern History, Jesus College, Oxford. 'The riots are not only an indictment of political and economic elites for they also tragically undermine the historic failure of our intellectual elites. Distinguished by their arrogant parochialism, they have proved incapable to think about the pluralist nature of French society.' Claude Fruchet, 25, radio journalist, Paris 'It's very difficult to find a job in France when your name is Martin, but it's almost mission impossible to find a job, rent a...