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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | February 28th, 2025: Trump Explodes At Zelensky During Heated Meeting & A Secret CIA Drone Program Is Hunting Down Cartel Bosses
28 Feb 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: First, an explosive confrontation between Presidents Trump and Zelenskyy that played out in front of the world today. What started as a meeting for a major deal quickly turned into a heated exchange—and it didn’t end well for anyone. Later in the show, as Mexico extradites nearly 30 high-level cartel leaders and members to the U.S. under threats of new tariffs from the Trump administration, we are learning of a covert CIA drone program being used in Mexico to help hunt down major drug kingpins. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
It's Friday, 28 February. Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. We'll kick things off with, well, a once-in-a-lifetime explosive confrontation between President Trump and President Zelensky that played out in front of the world today.
What started as a meeting for an important deal signing quickly turned into a heated exchange, and frankly, well, it didn't end well for anyone. Well, okay, perhaps except for Vladimir Putin and his minions who undoubtedly watched the televised argument with delight. Later in the show, as Mexico extradites nearly 30 high-level cartel leaders and members to the U.S.
under threats of new tariffs from the Trump administration, we're learning of a covert CIA drone program being used in Mexico to help hunt down major drug kingpins. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.
What was supposed to be a productive meeting between President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Ukrainian President Zelensky quickly turned into an explosive confrontation, and the whole world got to watch. The meeting was set to finalize a minerals deal, an important minerals deal, but things started going downhill almost immediately once the press was invited into the Oval Office.
Trump and Vance began accusing Zelensky of not showing enough gratitude for the U.S. support over the years after Zelensky interrupted Vance at one point to ask what type of diplomacy Vance thought might work with Putin. And they made it clear also that they felt Zelensky was in a bad position at the negotiating table.
A clearly irritated President Trump accused Zelensky of, quote, gambling with World War III and being very disrespectful to the United States. Things got even more heated when Vance pointed out that Ukraine was dealing with manpower and military recruitment problems. Zelensky responded by saying that war means everybody has problems, even you. And he said that the U.S.
would eventually feel the war's effects in the future. Well, Trump wasn't having that. He fired back saying, quote, don't tell us what we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel, end quote. In true Trump fashion, the whole episode concluded with the president declaring, quote, this is going to be great television. Well, he wasn't wrong.
Seriously, I cannot do justice to just how big of a goat rope this meeting was. I mean, really, there hasn't been anything comparable in modern times. Shortly after the fireworks ended, the minerals deal that had been on the table was pulled off. Trump reportedly asked Zelensky to leave the White House, ending the meeting rather abruptly.
Later, Trump took to Truth Social to share his thoughts, saying, quote, I've determined that President Zelensky is not ready for peace if America is involved because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don't want advantage. I want peace. He disrespected the United States of America.
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