Trump Is Cross-Examined by World Leaders and He Folds
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Why did world leaders cross‑examine Donald Trump over his Alaska‑Putin meeting plan?
Donald Trump got cross-examined by pissed-off world leaders who were stunned by Donald Trump's message on Friday that he would be meeting this Friday with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, which is nothing short of a massive victory for Putin and these world leaders, our allies, mostly from Europe. Said, get the hell on the phone right now. Send JD Vance to Chevening in Kent in the United Kingdom. We're bringing him here. Send some of the top people from Ukraine. We're going to sort this out. What the hell? hell did you tell vladimir putin was going to go down in alaska did you tell him that ukraine was going to give up 25 of these zapretia and donesk's region did you tell putin that because putin's out there telling a bunch of our enemies that that's what he was promised now he's going to alaska
and also bragging, by the way, that according to Putin's version of history, Alaska still belongs to him. And he's laughing at you, Donald. He's laughing at J.D. Vince. He's laughing at the United States. So what the hell did Steve Witkoff... your envoy to Russia. What did he say to Putin and what did Putin say to him? Witkoff is out there claiming that Putin was going to swap some land in Kershan and give some land back to Ukraine. Putin's not saying that. So what the hell happened? So what went down in Chevening in kent in the united kingdom this beautiful manner was all the world leaders got on a call i mean all of our i guess america's former allies based on the way donald trump treats europe they all went on the phone they said get witkoff on the phone get your envoy to russia on the phone and witkoff at first started to lie
And Witkoff was like, no, no, no. Putin assured me that he would be giving some territory over to Zelensky. If Zelensky gave some territory, this would be a territory swap. Remember how Donald Trump on Friday talked about swapping territory? And then, you know, it was French President Emmanuel Macron. Frederick Merz of Germany, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and others said, no, what did you really say to Putin? And what did Putin say to you, Witkoff? And Witkoff's like, I don't know. I don't really, that's what I believe we said. So they said, get Witkoff on the phone again. We're not okay with this, Witkoff. What the hell went down? And then finally, Witkoff has to sheepishly admit that Well, maybe I got the translation wrong.
That's what Witkoff says, kind of blaming it on the translator. Maybe I got the translation wrong. It's actually quite possible that all Putin said... was that he wanted 25% of Donetsk, basically hand over Zabriskie, hand over all of this territory to Putin, and then Putin may consider a ceasefire. So that's why Putin's going to Alaska. Putin's precondition to going to Alaska to meet with Donald Trump was that Trump and Witkoff had to endorse the following terms, the following stipulation. One, Ukraine and Europe could not be at this meeting. Two, Donald Trump and Witkoff had to go into this meeting agreeing that Ukraine would give up major portions of land that belongs to Ukraine, that has not even been taken over by Russia.
heavily fortified land, key defensive Ukrainian positions, just turn that over to Russia. First off, it's against the Ukrainian constitution to do that. It would also be the biggest infringement on Ukrainian sovereignty ever. And it basically amounts to a surrender by Ukraine. And so, uh, Our European allies, I guess you can say former based on the way Donald Trump treated them. They went on and they said, that's not the way it's going to work, Donald. We're all going to be there. OK, maybe if we're not in the room, you will not make any deal at all without Europe signing off on it, without Ukraine signing off on it. We're not being cut out. This impacts our territory because the moment Putin takes over Ukraine, he's coming for us next.
So what the hell are you going to do about it, Donald? What the hell are you going to do about it? So J.D. Vance at this Chevening conference, you can see right here, David Lammy is like the foreign minister.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
Why did world leaders cross‑examine Donald Trump over his Alaska‑Putin meeting plan?
0:00–5:37
2
What did Steve Witkoff claim about the Putin‑Trump negotiations and why did it cause a backlash?
5:37–12:29
3
How did European leaders respond to Trump’s proposed territorial swaps in Ukraine?
12:29–17:08
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