Alex Marlow
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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The Charlie Kirk Show · Don't Disrespect Our Oval Office — Trump/Vance v. Zelenskyy · 28 Feb 2025
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I have not had a chance. to see the clips because I was doing another hit that I had pre-scheduled. So sorry to leave you guys for a little bit. But I'm on the MSNBC homepage right now and it's Trump and Vance berate Ukraine Zelensky in ugly Oval Office media, ugly Oval Office meetings.
So it's exactly what I predicted an hour ago, Blake, to you, which is that the media was going to try to spin this as Zelensky's the victim. And so I don't think all of them are going to be able to stick with this because it did look so bad. And the points that
particularly Vance was making were so salient and so resonant that Trump is not getting enough credit for all the good that he's done for Ukraine over the years. And I think that once people realize that that's what was going on and Zelensky was being ungrateful, they're not going to be able to hang on to this, I don't think, for too long. But you knew they were going to try. They have to try.
Because remember, everything Trump does is bad and everything Zelensky does is good in the eyes of our press.
Yeah, that's how Trump is playing it. But who knows now, because this was so surprising that Zelensky, who you would think would be a pro by now, I know he was a comedian, but he's been president. He was president of his country for four years, and then he's been a dictator of his country for the last year. I say that only partially trolling.
He certainly has canceled elections and has a lot of the hallmarks of a dictator. And so he should be able to handle himself in these scenarios. And He couldn't. He just completely, completely messed up here. And so he does need a full mea maxima culpa and he needs to then sign the mineral deal.
But that's why I wondered in the last hour with you guys whether or not the mineral deal is even a real thing. Like maybe there's something else going on that we're not seeing that we can't see quite yet that maybe we'll come out later.
But if this really was just Zelensky freaking out and not handling himself like a, like a diplomatic leader trying to lead a massively consequential negotiation, then he's just got to try to take a mulligan, just say, I'm sorry, let's sign the deal and let's move on. But can he do that? Is he capable of doing that when all he wants to do is be Putin? I don't know.
And I meant he sort of picked with- He's going to lose land, particularly the stuff that Putin took under Obama. And the gravy train is going to slow down. Knowing America is not going to completely stop, because unfortunately we keep sending money overseas at insane levels, but it's not going to be what it was.
And there's going to be more accountability for everything that does get sent going forward. And so he's not really looking forward to this, is that he's choosing between bad options. And I don't think he likes the current slate of bad options that Trump has presented him, which is partially why he freaked out.
Andrew, can I add something, Blake? Going back to what we were talking about where I was half joking about him being a dictator, part of that is because he's losing popularity. And even before this happened, there's a very good chance he wouldn't win if he called an election, which is partially why he's not calling an election. Now,
his constitution does grant him the right to declare martial law and thus he doesn't have to have an election. So that's what he's doing. But again, that basically gives him an indefinite, he could just declare he's at war for infinity and never call an election again, which is why I maintain he is a dictator. But part of it is he thought he would win an election
he probably would have called it by now to get himself another four-year runway. He's not called it. And stuff like this could make it even more likely that he would lose. So maybe the move is if this thing does not get resolved very quickly, and Trump are the deal guy, so Trump knows how to negotiate this stuff better than I do.
But maybe the move is if Zelensky does not come right back there, sign that deal, the move is to say the Ukrainian people, they need to have an election right now, frame it up that way. And that could be a huge squeeze on Zelensky when it comes to negotiating any sort of broker piece going forward. So Trump has a lot of moves he can play now.
Zelensky, with his tantrum, has given Trump even more leverage than he had previously, which was pretty much all of it.
He's got to wear an Al Sharpton tracksuit. He's got to get the Adidas tracksuit out. He's got to get the big metal gold chain going. What is with that look? Can we retire that look, please?
291.
Totally right. But Graham is a politician, so Graham's angling for something, and I don't have a total read on it right this second. But he is right. I mean, that was, I thought, masterful by Vance and Trump, and it will go down in their historical canon as one of their best moments. Defending America and doing it calmly and articulately, they presented great arguments.
Trump swooping in there and saying to Zelensky, you have no right to tell us how to feel about was so perfect. It was such a classic where Trump just sees things so quickly. That was the exact right response. That was the moment of the day. Yes.
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