{"id":10897,"date":"2025-03-04T09:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2025-03-04T09:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T17:44:12","slug":"trump-politicking-with-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/04\/trump-politicking-with-zelensky\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Politicking with Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did the Trump-Zelensky meeting turn on its head so quickly? I watched the meeting very carefully and here&#8217;s what I think the conversation was between Trump and JD was earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;JD, when I say &#8216;All right, one more question&#8217; we&#8217;re going to work together to throw the whole deal. He&#8217;ll go back to Europe and all the European countries will say, &#8216;Oh you didn&#8217;t deserve that treatment, we&#8217;ll support you and give you money&#8217;. And then, eventually we&#8217;ll get back in because, I mean, we really do want to hold the line with Russia at this buffer country. But by doing it this way, Putin thinks he has a chance with me and Europe is convinced to put in more money to hold Russia, saving us billions of dollars. And my reputation as a capricious deal maker is maintained.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the moment the conversation turns:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Full Meeting between President Trump, VP Vance and Ukrainian President Zelensky in Oval Office\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7pxbGjvcdyY?start=2373&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The tell for me is that the discussion was going so swimmingly well for most of the meeting. When Zelensky says, &#8220;You have nice oceans and don&#8217;t feel now but you will feel it in the future.&#8221; got Trump very agitated. But that was a call-back from just 10 minutes earlier and wasn&#8217;t seen as inflammatory then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did the Trump-Zelensky meeting turn on its head so quickly? I watched the meeting very carefully and here&#8217;s what I think the conversation was between Trump and JD was earlier that day. &#8220;JD, when I say &#8216;All right, one more question&#8217; we&#8217;re going to work together to throw the whole deal. He&#8217;ll go back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10900,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions\/10900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}