Ezra Levant calls the February 28 Oval Office meltdown between Zelensky, Trump, and JD Vance the most shocking political video ever—raw, public shouting over a $500B mineral deal. Trump mocked Zelensky’s leverage ("you and what army?") while Vance accused him of disrespect for not thanking U.S. aid, sparking Lindsey Graham’s withdrawal of support. Zelensky’s defiance, comparing Obama’s "blankets" to Trump’s "javelins," mirrored European hawks’ stance, risking WWIII escalation and Ukraine’s isolation if Trump pulls back. Levant warns: diplomacy demands trust, not confrontation, and contrasts Zelensky’s failure with Canada’s Danielle Smith’s success—flattery over clashes. [Automatically generated summary]
It's the most astonishing political video I've seen.
Well, I can't even think of another time ever.
I'm talking about the meeting between Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, and Donald Trump and JD Vance, the president and vice president of the United States.
What started out as a sort of a celebration of coming together with a peace deal that seems like it's almost about to be born, turned into an acrimonious argument, hollering over each other, a little bit of name-calling, just astonishing.
And Vladimir Zelensky basically being shown the door afterwards.
I've never seen anything like it.
I'm going to play about almost 10 minutes of it, and I'm going to stop every moment and just give you my reaction.
Frankly, I encourage you to watch the whole thing.
In fact, there's a longer version of it that is worth watching.
It's just unbelievable, and it's roiling the entire world.
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Tonight, the most astonishing debate between Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine and President Donald Trump and his vice president, JD Vance.
I've never seen anything like it, and I doubt you have either.
It's February 28, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Russian Invasion Debate00:09:46
Well, you know Donald Trump's position on Ukraine.
It's simple.
He says the war would not have started had he been president at the time, and he used to boast that he could get the war ended in 24 hours after his victory.
Well, I think it's likely true that the war would not have happened on his watch, and we have some proof of that.
There was a Russian invasion of Ukraine under Barack Obama.
There was no Russian invasion of Ukraine when Trump was president the first time.
Then there was another Russian invasion of Ukraine under Joe Biden.
And now Vladimir Putin seems eager to stop.
Donald Trump is many things, but one of them, and perhaps it's an unlikely thing, is he's a peacemaker, whether it's in the Middle East or hopefully between Russia and Ukraine.
It's difficult being a peacemaker, especially when so much of the West has demonized Russia and Russians and even talking about ceasefires.
I've shown you this clip before.
This was a couple years ago.
This is the spokesman for the U.S. Secretary of State saying that America's position is there should never be a ceasefire in the war because that would suggest that the current borders are the permanent borders.
Imagine the United States saying we will not even entertain the idea of stopping the war.
Here's that clip.
And beware of what may seem to be well-intentioned efforts, for example, to call for ceasefires, which would potentially have the effect of freezing in place the conflict, allowing Russia to consolidate the gains that it's made, and simply use the time to rest and refit and then reattack.
And so what seems to be appealing on the surface, who wouldn't want the guns to be silent, can also be a very cynical trap that we have to be very, very careful of.
And of course, I think it's safe to say, Dimitro, that no one wants peace more than the Ukrainian people because they're the ones who are suffering directly from its absence and from this aggression.
But it has to be just and it has to be durable.
Otherwise, it's ultimately for naught.
So it's very hard to say, you know what?
We should talk about peace with the hated Russians and Vladimir Putin.
That's the thing about making peace is you make peace with your enemies, not your friends.
Europe certainly was belligerent and encouraged Vladimir Zelensky, mainly rhetorically, but through some funding, it should be noted.
But under the presidency of Joe Biden, the United States gave by far the most money and the most sophisticated equipment, including M1 Abrams tanks, javelin missiles, and on the way, F-16 fighter jets.
Well, Donald Trump didn't solve the war in the first day, but it's still barely a month out of his inauguration, and it looks like he's getting there.
And so today, not only did the British Prime Minister Kier Starmer arrive at the White House, but so did Vladimir Zelensky.
Donald Trump greeted him when he pulled up in his bulletproof limo, wearing his casual clothes, as he does as a, I suppose, a symbol of staying true to the military state of Ukraine.
Here's how that clip looked.
President Trump, what's your message to Pleiniger and Putin, sir?
President Trump, Cabinet, President Trump, you have a message for Vladimir Putin.
Well, Zelensky and Trump and JD Vance sat in the Oval Office that was packed with reporters, and they had a conversation on TV for the better part of an hour.
And they talked about a variety of things, and the deal was effectively done.
There's that large mineral deal by which America would recoup some of the funds that it had put into Ukraine, but also help rebuild Ukraine after the war.
And with a large American economic interest in Ukraine, that in itself is a kind of deterrent against Russian military adventures.
There have been statements from the UK and from France, and actually a hint from Justin Trudeau for Canada's sake that there would be some soldiers in Ukraine as a kind of peacekeeping buffer.
The United States clearly said that would not happen.
It's look, it's going to be difficult to negotiate a peace with Russia.
Russia has a larger population, a larger economy, a larger military.
And even though they had some setbacks in the war, they are now inexorably marching forward.
Vladimir Putin surely wants the war to end, but it's unlikely that he will give up much, if any, territory at all.
That's the thing about wars, is they're terrible.
And it's only once, I suppose, one side or both sides are exhausted that peace comes.
I'm setting the scene for the most astonishing debate.
Like I said, you had maybe a half hour discussion. in public about the negotiations, which is always a dangerous thing to do.
If you're negotiating in public, you're giving away things.
You risk offending the other side.
You wish blurting things out.
You don't want Russia to hear your real positions.
It's always a dangerous thing.
And I'd be most surprised that Vladimir Zelensky has been going to various capitals in Europe and now in the United States and talking about the state of negotiations while they are underway, which is a very difficult thing, but it's a very complex, it increases the complexity of a deal.
But I think he was being egged on.
I think Vladimir Zelensky was being egged on by two things.
First of all, Europeans who are generally terrified of Vladimir Putin.
And second of all, Europeans who are not genuinely terrified of Vladimir Putin, but disagree with Donald Trump and have other motives for fighting Vladimir Putin still.
One of them might be Boris Johnson, who the other day said publicly that this was just a proxy war whereby the West could fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Remember this clip?
We are, let's face it, we're waging a proxy war.
We're waging a proxy war, but we're not giving our proxies the ability to do the job.
And for years and years now, we've been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs.
And it has been cruel.
It has been cruel.
And we need now to give them what they need.
And remember Kaya Kallas, the former prime minister of tiny Estonia, talking about how she thinks Vladimir Putin is actually scared of the European Union.
Do you see that clip?
NATO is not the thing that Russia is afraid of.
Russia is afraid of democracy spending to Russia because NATO has never, and any NATO countries have never attacked Russia.
The point is that why are we in NATO is because we are afraid of Russia.
And the only thing that really works, the only security guarantee that works is the NATO's umbrella.
Well, whatever it is, someone was whispering into Vladimir Zelensky's ear.
Was it Democrats?
Was it never Trumpers?
Was it Europeans who were feeling pretty butched, like Kaya Kallas?
Was it people from the military-industrial complex in the United States?
People who benefit or profit from the war and don't want to see it ended?
I don't know.
But after being fairly well-behaved for half an hour, a fight broke out, an argument.
Really, it was when Vladimir Zelensky and JD Vance, the vice president, started at it.
They went back and forth a bit, and then Trump came in.
And then it was the most undiplomatic beating I think I've ever seen.
And so without further ado, I'm now going to play, I don't know, about a seven-minute clip of it.
I really encourage you to go back and watch the whole thing.
I've watched about a 10-minute segment of this two or three times now.
It's just unbelievable.
I'm going to play this about seven and a half minute clip now, and I'm going to interrupt a few times just to say some observations.
But without further ado, let's play that now when things started to undo themselves between Zelensky, Trump, and JD Vance, literally on the eve of the whole deal.
This was practically a signing ceremony.
Okay, let's take a look.
This thing over with.
You see the hatred he's got for Putin.
It's very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hate.
He's got tremendous hatred.
And I understand that, but I can tell you the other side isn't exactly in love with, you know, him either.
So it's not a question of alignment.
I'm aligned with the world.
I want to get the thing set.
I'm aligned with Europe.
I want to see if we can get this thing done.
You want me to be tough?
I could be tougher than any human being you've ever seen.
I'd be so tough.
But you're never going to get a deal that way.
So that's the way it goes.
One more question.
I will respond to this.
Diplomacy Under Pressure00:15:11
So look.
Let me stop right there.
So right there, Zelensky had complained about Putin.
It was sort of trash-talking Putin, which is completely understandable.
But Trump said, whoa, if we're going to get a deal done here, that kind of rhetoric's not working.
The other side feels the same way.
I'm not going to be aligned.
I'm the deal maker.
So Trump was sort of gently tapping down Zelensky, not in a rough way, but just saying, look, our alignment here is to get a peace deal.
And JD Vance, I think something was pricked inside him, and he felt like Vladimir Zelensky, by it was just before this clip starts, by sort of turning this meeting into a criticism of the other party, Vladimir Putin, maybe wasn't respectful enough of Trump's role.
And he says so.
And here's where it all starts to unfold.
Take a look at JD Vance.
Four years in the United States of America, we had a president who stood up at press conferences and talked tough about Vladimir Putin.
And then Putin invaded Ukraine and destroyed a significant chunk of the country.
The path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy.
We tried the pathway of Joe Biden of thumping our chest and pretending that the president of the United States' words mattered more than the president of the United States' actions.
What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy.
That's what President Trump is doing.
Can I ask you?
Sure.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Okay.
So he occupied our parts, big parts of Ukraine, parts of East and Crimea.
So he occupied it on 2014.
So during a lot of years, I'm not speaking about Jose Biden, but those times was Obama, then President Obama, then President Trump, then President Biden, now President Trump, and God bless, now President Trump will stop him.
But during 2014, nobody stopped him.
He just occupied and took.
He killed people.
You know what the contact was.
2015.
2014.
So it's not here.
Yeah, but yes, but during 2014 till 2022, was the situation the same?
People have been dying on the contact line.
Nobody stopped him.
You know that we had conversations with him, a lot of conversations, multilateral conversation.
And we signed with him, me, like a new president.
In 2019, I signed with him the deal.
I signed with him, Macron and Merkel.
We signed ceasefire.
Ceasefire, all of them told me that he will never go.
We signed him with gas contract, gas contract.
Yes, but after that, he broke the ceasefire.
He killed our people and he didn't exchange prisoners.
We signed the exchange of prisons, but he didn't do it.
What kind of diplomacy, JG, you are speaking about?
What do you mean?
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.
Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conference.
I've never been to Ukraine.
Did you say what problems we have?
Look, what he said there about litigating things in public, I think that's what pricked JD Vance.
I don't think it surprised him or even so much upset him that Zelensky was sort of arguing and grouchy, being grouchy about diplomacy, including when Trump was president between 2016 and 2020.
I don't think that's actually what bothered JD Vance, because I believe that Vladimir Zelensky has had to suffer a number of indignities in this peace treaty process.
Of course he does, and of course he will.
But as JD Vance said, to litigate it in public, to hash it out in public, it's not going to make a deal any more likely.
And JD Vance said diplomacy is the way.
And Zelensky said, what kind of diplomacy is that?
And it was the defiance and the fact that he had not yet submitted himself to this peace process that I think lit the fuse and watch that fuse explode.
Keep watching.
I have been to I have actually watched and seen the stories and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President.
Do you disagree that you've had problems like bringing people into your military?
And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
A lot of questions.
Let's start from the beginning.
Sure.
First of all, during the war, everybody has problems.
Even you, but you have nice ocean and don't feel now.
But you will feel it in the future.
God bless you.
You don't know that.
God bless you.
God bless.
You will not hear it.
Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
We're trying to solve a problem.
Right there.
So again, the thing about a deal, there's a phrase in law, the meeting of the minds.
You never have a deal until the two minds have interlocked and agreed on things.
If one side still feels like he's arguing, if one side still feels like he hasn't had his points reflected, you don't have a deal.
And so like I say again, that Zelensky was in Washington to ink up the deals.
I understand he already signed the mineral deal, but here he is, he's complaining.
And do you see, he said something there that I think pricked Donald Trump.
And I'm going to come back to Trump's emotional sensibilities and why that's important for Canadians to learn.
But he said, I don't know if he caught that, Zelensky said, you will feel this later when Vladimir Putin comes for you because you're thousands of miles away across the ocean.
And I'm sure that Zelensky does believe that.
I think Zelensky thinks he is the last bulwark stopping Putin from bursting into the rest of Europe and then eventually into America.
Whereas Trump, and I think a growing number of Americans, according to pollsters, think, no, no, no, you're not doing us a favor.
We were doing you a favor by giving you all this money and weaponry.
And I don't know, maybe the truth is somewhere in between.
Boris Johnson says that we were using Zelensky in Ukraine as a weapon.
So, I mean, maybe there is a little bit of truth all around.
Maybe Russia would be deterred from attacking the West based on how it went for them in Ukraine.
I don't know.
But I do know this.
This was supposed to be a harmonious meeting where Donald Trump gets a diplomatic win and Zelensky gets the war ended, not in a perfect way, but in a way that stops the killing.
And JD Vance needled him a bit by saying, you're so out of men.
So many young men have died in the meat grinder of this war that you're literally grabbing conscripts on the street.
The average age of the Ukrainian soldier is now 43.
43.
They've burned through their young men, those who haven't fled the country.
And JD Vance is prickling back at Zelensky.
And obviously, he's irritated and prickling back.
This is not a signing ceremony.
This is not someone who has come to terms, consensus at Edem, meeting of the minds.
It hasn't happened yet.
Keep watching.
And boy, he said something that prickled Trump when he said, you will pay the price later for this, is essentially, I think, what Trump heard.
Keep rolling the tape.
Problem.
Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
I'm not telling you.
Because you're in no position to dictate that.
Remember this.
You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
We're going to feel very good.
We're going to feel very good and very strong.
We'll feel influence.
You're right now not in a very good position.
You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position.
And he happens to be right about the very beginning of the war.
You're not in a good position.
You don't have the cards right now.
Stop right now.
Now, on paper, these two men are equals.
One's the president of Ukraine, one's the president of the United States of America.
I sometimes paddle a canoe.
I sometimes drive a little fishing boat.
And it is legally true that I am as much a captain of my little fishing boat as the captain of a mighty aircraft carrier is.
We're both equal that way.
But no, there is not actually an equality between these two men.
And Trump is trying to say in a diplomatic way, he's saying you don't have any cards to play.
Did you hear him say that repeatedly?
And Zelensky is talking over Trump.
And I get it if you're fighting with Trump.
I get it if you disagree with Trump and you're not going to sign a deal.
But I think you've got to pick a lane.
Are you going to sign the deal or not?
And Trump is trying in his own way to say, you and what army?
And that's the problem with this whole war, I think, is that the people who are talking the toughest, Kaya Kallas, so much of Europe, have denuded their militaries.
Even the United Kingdom is, their military is falling apart.
And it really is just America.
And so if you come to the paymaster of all of it, you come to the country from which all the weapons come, all the high-tech weapons especially, and you're quarreling with the president and you're talking over him.
This is a guy who does business deals his whole life.
And he's looking at Zelensky and saying, why are you arguing with me?
You have no better option.
You have no better deal.
All right, keep playing the tape.
With us, you start having cards.
Right now, you don't play peace, you're playing.
You're gambling with the lives of billions of people.
You're gambling with World War III.
You're gambling with World War III.
And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country.
That's back to you.
That's what I'm saying.
Far more than a lot of people said they should have.
Have you said thank you once?
No, in this entire meeting, that you said thank you.
You went to Pennsylvania and can have you said thank you once.
I bet you that sounds like a shock to Zelensky's ears because I think he has convinced himself of the European view, which is that he is the hero.
And certainly Justin Trudeau has told him that, and Christian Friedland has told him that, and Emmanuel Macron has told him that.
Kier Starmer has said that you are the hero who is saving the world from Vladimir Putin.
And he comes to America, these gauche right-wing cowboys, and here is JD Vance saying, Did you even say thank you today?
Which is not a substantive question, really.
It's a stylistic question, but it goes to attitude and tone.
The United States of America is trying to save Ukraine from being completely devoured, and it's no longer going to do so militarily.
It's going to do so diplomatically.
And I think that that question landed with a shock on Zelensky's ears.
And to see the quarrel, and by the way, when Donald Trump says this war could lead to World War III, that is a possibility.
As I mentioned before, North Korea has sort of a brigade of mercenaries fighting against Ukrainians.
So there are other countries involved.
Of course, there are mercenaries from all countries involved.
There has been outrageous talk about using nuclear weapons.
There's been talk about using long-range cruise weapons, including one called Storm Shadow, to shoot deep into Russia.
Like there's all sorts of ways this could careen out of control.
And if you think of Donald Trump as the America first guy who doesn't want foreign entanglements, he's got to be thinking, why would I be dragged into World War III, let alone why am I paying for all this?
Let's get out of it and let's let everyone have some dignity.
And it makes me think of the Abraham Accords.
Could you imagine all the backroom arguing and complaining and accusations between Israel and Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates and Sudan?
And I think maybe Morocco was in the first wave of that.
And could you imagine?
I mean, there must have been enormous quarreling.
There must have been a thousand years' worth of pent-up quarrels, but they kept it behind the scenes.
And then they hammered out a deal that I'm sure had, you know, costs and benefits to everyone.
But that's what a deal is.
And even during, let me just shift gears a little bit.
Even during Joe Biden's presidency, when Benjamin Netanyahu would appear on camera with Joe Biden or Anthony Blinken, the Secretary of State, you know that both sides hated each other.
But Netanyahu didn't engage in this kind of belligerent, badgering, heckling, and embarrassing his host.
I just think this is the most astonishing thing.
Here, let's play.
There's a little bit more.
Keep watching.
Campaign for the opposition in October.
Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
Please, you see that if you will speak very loudly about the war you've been doing.
He's not speaking loudly.
He's not speaking loudly.
Your country is in big trouble.
Can I have a question?
No, no.
You've done a lot of talking.
Your country is in big trouble.
I know.
You're not winning.
You're not winning this.
You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of us.
Mr. President, we are staying in our country, staying strong from the very beginning of the war.
We've been alone and we are thankful.
I said thank you.
You haven't been in this cabinet.
You haven't been in this cabinet.
We gave you through this stupid president $350 billion.
You won't.
We gave you military equipment.
You won't have to do it.
And your men are brave, but they had to use our military equipment.
If you didn't have our military equipment, didn't have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks.
In three days, I heard it from Putin in three days.
This is how maybe less.
In two weeks, of course, yes.
It's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this.
I'm going to tell you.
Just say thank you.
Proud Of Our Men00:16:08
I said it at all don't worry about it.
Except that there are disagreements and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the American media when you're wrong.
We know that you're wrong.
But you see, I think it's good for the American people to see what's going on.
I think it's very important.
That's why I kept this going so long.
You have to be thankful.
You don't have the cards.
You're buried there.
People that die tell you.
You're running out of soldiers.
Just listen.
Everyone in that room knew how unusual this was.
And by the way, it was packed with reporters.
And JD Vance makes a point again: why are you litigating this out in public?
I think that's JD Vance's way of saying, listen, everything you're saying is legitimate, or at least is heartfelt.
And you can, you know, there's nothing illegitimate about complaining about, you know, he said we were alone.
Trump said, no, you weren't.
You had our money and weapons.
But it's okay to just say you felt alone because it's true.
No other country's soldiers had boots on the ground.
So in that sense, he was alone.
And I think the number, if I was on Zelensky's staff, the number one argument I would use privately, not publicly, is you told us to keep fighting.
You told us never to negotiate, never to have a ceasefire.
They had a peace treaty almost done three years ago, and Boris Johnson came and ordered Zelensky not to sign it.
That would be my private argument.
I would say to America, we are in this disastrous war because you egged us on the whole time.
You forbade us from having ceasefires.
You scuppered the deal.
How can you hang us out to dry now?
That's what I would say if I was a Zelensky staffer.
But even after JD Vance, for what, the second or third time, says, don't fight with us in public.
Are you hearing what he's saying?
He's saying, don't do this in front of the cameras.
Do this in private.
Let it all out in private.
And even now, Trump is talking and Zelensky's talking over him.
And I'm not saying you have to treat Donald Trump like a king, but how about use your noggin a bit?
Do you want to win the argument but lose the negotiation?
If you swallow your pride a little, you know, there's one thing you'll notice about every cabinet secretary in the Trump administration.
Whenever they're about to announce something awesome, they always say, under Donald Trump's leadership or with Donald Trump as the president, they always give the kudos and the credit to the boss.
Now, by the way, it's true.
If it weren't for Trump, none of the cabinet would be appointed.
They are all his appointees.
They are successful because of his coattails.
So it is literally true.
But of course, it also makes Trump feel good.
And it also shows some loyalty to Trump, which I think is necessary or at least understandable because in his entire first term, half of his appointees were disloyal.
Half of his appointees were trying to undo his mandate and his projects.
So put aside how you feel or put aside, oh, we don't need to be so submissive to Trump.
Well, how about have a get ahead?
You know, they say, don't get mad, don't get even, get ahead.
Vladimir Zelensky is getting mad.
He's certainly not getting even.
And oh my God, is he not getting ahead?
And I just find it astonishing what he has given up here for what reason?
Just because he couldn't come in and say, Mr. President, thank you for using your power and charisma and credentials to get a deal done.
How about just, you know, there's an old British saying, a diplomat is someone who lies abroad for his country.
And if you know the source of that, it was sort of a triple pun to lie abroad is what a battleship does when it uses its guns sideways and to lie abroad.
Of course, you're telling lies abroad.
A diplomat is someone who lies abroad for his country.
And Zelensky could just tell some white lies, Mr. President, you're super awesome.
Mr. President, I thank you so much.
And he would have gotten this deal done.
Instead, I'll give away the ending.
They basically kicked him out of the White House.
They canceled a formal press conference and they sent him out without dinner.
Anyway, let's watch the final moments.
You're running slow on soldiers.
It would be a damn good thing.
Then you tell us, I don't want to ceasefire.
I don't want to ceasefire.
I want to go and I want this.
Look, if you could get a ceasefire right now, I tell you you take it so the bullets stop flying and your men stop calling.
Of course, we want to stop the war.
But I'm saying you don't want to ceasefire.
I want to cease guarantee.
Because you'll get a ceasefire faster than a degree.
Ask our people about ceasefire, what they think.
That wasn't with me.
That wasn't with me.
That was with a guy named Biden who was not a smart person.
That was with Obama.
It was your presence.
Excuse me.
That was with Obama who gave you sheets and I gave you javelins.
Yes.
I gave you the javelins to take out all those tanks.
Obama gave you sheets.
In fact, the statement is Obama gave sheets and Trump gave javelins.
What he's talking about is blankets, actually.
I don't know why he's saying sheets.
Obama didn't give the same lethal weapons.
He gave humanitarian weapons.
Not even weapons, blankets.
But put aside that factual detail there.
Look at the bickering.
Look at the arguing.
Look at the interrupting.
And most Americans don't really know much about Vladimir Zelensky other than he's a foreign guy who never wears a suit, who asks for a lot of money.
And now, when he's been asked repeatedly to be a little bit polite, a little deferential to say thank you, he's arguing.
I can only imagine Vladimir Putin and the Russian foreign ministry watching this video just shocked, shocked and stunned.
Vladimir Zelensky, in the course of 20 minutes, I believe, has done more damage to his reputation in the United States, or at least to Republicans.
And by the way, right now they can control all the branches of the government.
In terms of support for more funding or support to drag this on, I think Vladimir Zelensky, if he could have just kept it together and smile and wave and smile and wave, just think that you're like the queen or the king.
Just smile and wave.
Smile and wave.
If you could just suck it up for 10 more minutes, it would have been done.
Instead, he was booted out.
Okay, watch the rest.
You got to be more thankful.
Because let me tell you, you don't have the cards.
With us, you have the cards.
But without us, you don't have any cards.
One more question to my vice president.
I'm sorry.
It's going to be a tough deal to make.
Because the attitudes have to change.
What if Russia breaks ceasefire?
What if Russia?
The attitudes have to change.
It's true.
A lot of deal making is based on personal connection and trust.
And I've just never seen anything like that.
And all I've been thinking of since I saw that earlier today was who was speaking in Vladimir Zelensky's ear?
Who put him in that frame of mind?
Or is that his natural state?
Hey, I want to show you a very short clip.
This is the Ukrainian ambassador to America.
Take a look at her just watching what was going on and just putting her head in her hands and thinking, this can't be salvaged.
I truly feel bad for her.
This was the Hindenburg of diplomatic blow-ups.
I just never seen anything like it.
Do you know who Lindsey Graham is?
He's a Republican senator.
He's a real hawk.
He's very hawkish on war.
He was for wars in the Middle East, for wars in Ukraine.
He's visited Ukraine about 10 times.
He always votes for and supports more money for Ukraine.
He watched this exchange and he was stunned by it.
Here, watch Lindsey Graham, who's never voted against a military appropriation or a war in his life.
I think it's all he lives for.
And listen to him saying he wouldn't do any business with, he just doesn't think he can do any business with Zelensky anymore.
And he was shocked by it.
And he said he's never been more proud of Trump.
Take a look at this.
So what do I think?
Complete, utter disaster.
I've been to Ukraine eight or nine times since the war started.
I understand the consequences of Putin's actions against Ukraine.
I appreciate what the Ukrainian people have done.
They fought like tigers.
At the end of the day, I was hoping that this minerals deal, which would be transformative in the relationship, would go over well.
I talked to Zelensky this morning.
Don't take the bait.
President Trump was in a very good mood last night.
Somebody asked me, am I embarrassed about Trump?
I have never been more proud of the president.
I was very proud of JD Vance standing up for our country.
We want to be helpful.
What I saw in the Oval Office was disrespectful.
And I don't know if we can ever do business with Zelensky again.
I think most Americans saw a guy that they would not want to go in business with.
The way he handled the meeting, the way he confronted the president was just over the top.
So I think the relationship between Ukraine and America is important, vitally important.
But can Zelensky do a deal with the United States after what I saw?
I don't know.
You just had lunch with President Trump.
What did he say to you about his interactions and whether he's a good person?
He was shocked.
He was very upbeat.
I told Zelensky, we'll talk about security guarantees.
We'll talk about ceasefires and how the war ends.
This is a process.
You have a new relationship with America.
A $500 billion, half a trillion dollar deal that President Trump is proud of, that gives us an interest worth defending.
Let's talk about the positive.
But he was terrible at Munich, Zelensky, and I think he has made it almost impossible to sell to the American people that he's a good investment, that he is a good business for us.
Last question is.
Senator Williams.
Senator Lee.
One out of time.
Senator, do you hear me?
One at a time.
Thank you.
Do you think President Zelensky needs to resign to resume these peace?
He either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with, or he needs to change.
You know, Donald Trump was stern, but throughout it, he had a sense of kindness.
He said things like, your men are brave.
They fought bravely.
He said that several times.
He just kept coming back to his phrase, you don't have any cards to play.
Or I would use the phrase, you and what army?
Because I think at the end of the day, that's what it is.
And this, watching the reaction to this conflagration has been quite something.
People who hate Trump pounce on and say, look, he's throwing Zelensky to the wolves.
I saw a lot of comments that Trump was more brutal with Zelensky than Putin.
Of course, that's not true.
Putin has killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.
But rhetorically, Putin is probably more reserved.
But I think this is a moment for the entire Western world to sort of grow up a bit.
And this is my message to Canada's leaders too.
Donald Trump is a very unusual, powerful, and public man.
The fact that he had this public dispute and kept it going, and the fact that he tweets in the way that he does, the fact that he bluntly says whatever's on his mind, even if he changes his mind shortly thereafter, he's very unusual and I'd even say unique.
The fact that he happens to be the leader of the world's most rich and most powerful country is why it's so interesting.
There's a lesson here, I think, which is, do you want to win the negotiation or do you want to win the argument?
And I think this shows what happens when you go to Donald Trump with demands that you just can't fulfill when you do not have the cards, when you're writing checks that cannot be cashed.
And obviously that applies to Ukraine, a country that has been devoured by Putin, that has really no tax base anymore.
An enormous number of their people have fled as refugees.
Their land has been annexed or conquered.
The thought that he could show public chutzpah towards Trump is astonishing bad judgment on his part.
But more than bad judgment, it's counterproductive.
I say again, he was sort of frog-marched out of the White House, dinner canceled, etc.
It would not surprise me, frankly, if he resigns or in some way steps aside as leader and someone else will finish the job.
It wouldn't surprise me at all, given the disaster diplomatically here.
What happens if Trump just says, good luck, good luck with you and your European friends?
Because that's the alternative that Trump is referring to when he says you have no cards.
The lesson for Canadians is, if we actually want to win, don't be disrespectful.
Don't poke at him.
Don't insult him.
Don't try to embarrass him in the media, especially in his own office.
And I think if you look how Justin Trudeau, Melanie Jolie, Christia Freeland, Mark Carney are all talking about Trump.
And frankly, even Pierre Polyev, trying to flex his anti-Trump muscles lest he be tagged as a pro-Trump person.
I don't think that's the approach.
I think the approach by Danielle Smith, which is never throwing Canada under the bus, never disparaging Canada or any part of Canada, being positive and upbeat, being flattering where appropriate, and just saying, look, We are after happy Trump, positive Trump, effusive Trump, ambitious Trump, deal-making Trump, and we're going to be in the right frame of mood.
You heard the last thing that Trump said in that clip.
He talked about attitude.
I think the amazing thing about Trump is that he can actually work with people who have insulted him before.
As long as they just fix that, they can get along famously.
Whether it's Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio, remember he gave them nicknames.
He said Lion Ted Cruz and Little Marco.
Like there's so many people in the Republican Party that he just thrashed, but they kissed and made up, and now they're productive friends.
Trump's Unlikely Alliances00:03:10
And it's not just in politics, it's in business.
Mark Zuckerberg had a come to Jesus moment with Trump, and now Zuckerberg has found a happy way to coexist, and he's actually becoming more freedom-oriented.
I think Canada can get through our current diplomatic challenge with the United States easily.
But I think that we've chosen the Zelensky approach.
And the crazy thing is, I think Zelensky chose it by accident, or he was sort of put up to it or set up for it, or he misunderstood the motivations of Trump.
Maybe he actually thought Trump does believe or should believe that Ukraine is all that's standing between Putin and America.
Trump doesn't believe that.
But in the case of Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney, and Christy Freeland, our political class absolutely knows that we're not about to be invaded by Donald Trump and annexes the 51st state.
He never said that at all.
He never talked about seizing or annexing.
He suggested that Canadians would choose.
Our political leaders know that it's not a hostile act.
It's a taunt.
But they're choosing their attitude.
They're choosing to fight for their own political interests.
I don't think it's going to work out well for them either.
Hey, welcome back.
You know, instead of letters, I want to show you a bunch of very good interviews that my colleague David Menzies did last night on the Ontario election.
Now, I know a lot of our viewers are not in Ontario, but there was one little occurrence in particular that I thought was encouraging.
An independent candidate named Bobby Ann Brady won in her district and won big.
And I think that Rebel News was the first media outlet she spoke with after that.
So I want to show you that.
But I'm still just turning over in my mind what I saw in the White House.
And I have to say, the look on the Ukrainian ambassador's face told the whole story.
That Zelensky, because he just couldn't shut up and bite his tongue and bear it, I think he caused a great disaster for his country.
And if he truly thinks that he can be saved by the European Union or Kirst Starmer or Emmanuel Macron, well, now's the time for him to call in those cards.
But I just don't think so.
I think Trump knows a thing or two about negotiations.
I'm just astonished at what happens.
And whoever gave Zelensky that advice made a historic error.
And hopefully it won't undo.
Hopefully things can be put back together.
I don't think Trump will have any more time for Zelensky personally.
And I think Zelensky, frankly, will probably be shown the door quite quickly.
My hope is that the peace deal is not scuppered by this, that someone else can sign and approve it on behalf of Ukraine and that the terms don't change.
Although I got to say, if I was Vladimir Putin right now, I would be ratcheting up my demands because I can tell that Trump's frustration levels are high.
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Just an amazing thing we've seen.
I hope it does not lead to more bloodshed.
All right.
Well, that's our show for today.
Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel News Headquarters, see you at home.
Good night and keep fighting for freedom.
But here, stick around and watch these clips from my colleague David Menzies last night.
And I've just been told that one of the candidates who is, well, she's successful.
And speaking of her Killian tasks, she's an independent candidate.
And she is one of the writings to watch on my list of nine or ten.
And without further ado, let me welcome Bobby Ann Brady.
Well, Bobby Ann Brady, you did it again, didn't you?
Yes, we did it again when we were told we would never do it again.
Unbelievable.
And you know, Bobby Anna, I knew I would likely have you as a guest on the show tonight.
So what I did is, I don't know if you can tell, the color of my tie is purple because you see, I didn't want to wear red or green or orange or blue.
And what I'm getting at, folks, Bobby Ann Brady, who used to be a loyal PC party member, now running as independent when Doug Ford in the 22 election decided that they had their own cherry-pick candidate.
And Bobby Ann Brady in her writing is very well respected, very well loved.
And there was actually a smear campaign against her during this election.
You see, Bobby Ann Brady once wore a red dress into the legislature.
That means she's a secret liberal.
You see, well, what do you know, Bobby Ann Brady?
Looks like the smear tactics didn't work, eh?
They didn't work.
And, you know, it's funny when I wore that dress into the legislature, I made a joke one day.
I said, you know, I'm going to land up on someone else's literature.
And there it was.
But the good people of Haldimand Norfolk, they went out in spades today and they voted and they drove out that vote.
And, you know, it's heartening to see people defending democracy, people standing up for, you know, strong voice at Queen's Park that isn't tied to a party.
No monopoly on a good idea, David.
100%.
And I think your story is an incredible one.
I mean, you go back to when you worked with Toby Barrett, going back to 1995 in the writing.
He was well respected as well.
And then he retired in 2021.
And you had aspirations to run for being the PC candidate in that writing.
Bobby Ann, can you tell our audience what went awry?
Because obviously, you know, by the very fact you've won an election twice without a big blue machine behind you, it speaks to the respect and the love you have in Haldimand Norfolk.
So why were you sort of candidate non-Grana going back to 2022?
Well, listen, I think it goes back to the fact that, you know, I had asked some questions, you know, throughout the pandemic when I was a staffer.
And I had also spoken out against the idea of the ministerial zoning order being pushed for the Nanicoke Industrial Park.
They want there's a proposal on the table to build 15,000 homes out at the Nanicoke Industrial Park.
And I think it's a bad idea.
And I was very vocal about that.
And so I think between asking questions that people were asking us in the constituency office at the time and also pushing back against that development at the Nanny Coke Industrial Park is what, you know, that's the excuses I think that they would use if you asked them.
And Bobby Ann, I was just looking at the numbers.
Not only did you win, it was a landslide.
The PC candidate, Amy Martin, I believe, like the former PC candidate, she is a mayor of a local municipality.
But am I reading this correctly?
You got over 65% of the vote.
And Amy Martin with the big blue machine behind her got less than 24%.
What do you think?
If you're reading that, I'm in a vehicle right now.
I've been kind of chilling out with my family, waiting for the call to come in.
And I'm not a girl who likes to watch the numbers come in when my name is on the ballot.
When I was a campaign manager, no problem.
But when my name's on the ballot, I just wait for the call.
And if you're telling me those are the numbers, David, then those are the numbers.
And it just goes to show you that people in this riding, they really respect their independent voice.
They respect the fact that I can go to Queen's Park and I can truly represent them.
I don't have to be a brand ambassador.
I can ask the tough questions of the government without having to toe a party line and somebody telling me that I can't do or say something.
And you know, Bobby Ann, I got to tell you, if, you know, ProLine were taking wagers on the election, I would have bet a couple of bucks on you.
And I'll tell you, it goes back to 2022, before we even met, before I even knew who you were.
I remember going to cover the motorcycle congregation in Port Dover.
And everywhere I rode, I drove, I saw Bobby Ann Brady, Bobby Ann Brady.
And I thought, my goodness, by the sign tally, who is this Bobby Ann Brady?
And I said, but, you know, independent, what a poor dreamer.
And then, holy moly, Bobby Ann Brady, you know, wins.
Then I learned the backstory, which we spoke about, which is fascinating.
And here we are in 2025.
I got to tell you, when I drive around the GTA, I have never seen so few election signs, especially on private property.
I discount ones on vacant lots.
Anyone can put those up.
I think that speaks to the apathy of this election in the middle of a brutal winter.
But in your writing, Bobby Ann, when myself and Ace cameraman Lincoln J went out last week to do a little interview with you, yet again, your signs were everywhere and on private property.
So I had a good inkling you were going to run away with this.
And one of the things that I do not understand, and we brought this up during the interview, Bobby Ann, is that for Doug Ford, this is personal for him.
Last year at the legislature, he singled you out.
He was angry.
He was saying he was going to make you unemployed.
And Bobby Ann, I don't get it because if the Ford PCs were, say, one seat away from a majority, you know, oh, well, that Bobby Ann Brady, you know, that was, you know, she's the poison in the punch bowl that prevented a majority.
But he's got a supermajority.
Who cares if there's one lone independent out there?
Bobby Ann, can you explain why the premier seems obsessed with the fact that you won one single riding?
I think that it's an embarrassment.
I think that, you know, what they said in 2022 is, you know, we could run a monkey as long as it has a PC logo on its back.
I mean, we saw an interview yesterday in Windsor where the premier answered a question that was asked of a candidate.
And, you know, so we see those tight controls.
And I've, in one riding in this province, I've loosened his control.
And he doesn't like that.
You know, it is baffling to me.
Again, especially since it looks like the Doug Ford PCs are heading for their third super majority in a row, which I don't think has been done in this province, at least not in recent memory.
So, you know, we're running out of time, Bobby Ann, but of course, the most important question of all is this, given that I can only see your face.
What color of dress are you wearing tonight?
I have a green, like a teal jacket on, and underneath I have some black on.
So I'm pretty neutral tonight.
Oh, well, good for you, because you know, when you wear, well, I had no idea haberdashery was so politically charged in the province.
Listen, David, when I get back to Queen's Park, you can keep an eye on all the colors that I wear.
It's going to be fun.
Well, that is fantastic.
Bobby Ann Brady, I want to thank you for coming on, making some time for us.
I want to say congratulations.
And I guess a word to the wise, folks, whether you're a certain ex-NFL quarterback or a particular Ontario MPP, never bet against someone with a surname Brady.
Bobby Ann, a pleasure as always.
Congratulations.
Thank you, David.
Thanks so much.
Have a great night.
You too.
Take care.
And that was Bobby Ann Brady in the riding of Haldeman Norfolk, who pulled another rabbit out of the hat, really, folks.
As I've said, if you're a startup party or if you're an independent, it is a Herculean task to make headway.
And Bobby Ann Brady did it in 2022.
And she did it in 2025.
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Even though Doug Ford seems obsessed with the fact that the PCs lost that solitary loan riding in southwestern Ontario, unbelievable.
So good for Bobby Ann.
What a win.
What do we do for an encore?
Well, I'm delighted to say we have independent journalist Harrison Faulkner on standby.
And is Harrison there?
Yes, there he is.
Hey, Harrison, thank you so much for joining me.
I got to tell you, the big question going into this snap election, at least for me, you're younger, you probably don't remember.
But way back in 1990, the David Peterson Liberals had a majority government.
And, you know, the polls looked nice.
There was also a scandal they wanted to get off the front page.
And they decided that we're going to go to an early election.
And Harrison, I can tell you the dynamic in 1990, nobody, and I mean the top polling agencies, the NDP itself, nobody dreamed that everybody was going to wake up in the province that year to an NDP government under Bob Ray.
So that was the big question.
Is this deja vu all over again?
Obviously, not.
What do you think was the secret sauce for the Doug Ford PCs in going to the polls early, Harrison?
Well, I think the biggest thing was never letting a crisis go to waste.
And we've seen that twice now with the PCs and with Doug Ford.
They did that in 2022.
I'm not exactly sure if it was an early election or if they had to call it.
I think they had to call it, but they won because of a crisis that was happening in the country.
And this tariff threat really is for many people a crisis.
Sometimes other people will blow it up.
Other people try to minimize it.
But the reality is, if tariffs did come when they were originally expected to come, it would have been a disaster.
And so I think Doug Ford just played his cards right and took advantage of this crisis.
The other thing, too, however, is that I believe in 1990, I wasn't born in 90%.
I wasn't born for that.
I wasn't around for that.
But my guess is that Bob Ray's opposition was stronger than the opposition that exists right now in Ontario because the Ontario Liberals and the Ontario NDP are just so pathetically weak that it's not even doing any service to Ontarians to have such a weak opposition.
Whether you're a conservative or a liberal, I think people just want to have competency in office, whether that's in government or in opposition.
And, you know, the Liberals and the NDP, they didn't even run a full slate of candidates in this election.
They didn't even, they barely had enough money to get this thing going.
And Bonnie Crombie lost her seat tonight.
So they were pathetically weak.
And, you know, David, you look at the situation in Ontario, and the obvious campaign line for the Liberals or the NDP would have been: is your life better after eight years of Doug Ford than it is?
You know, is it better?
And the answer is obviously, I think, for most people, no.
The situation in Ontario is serious.
Millions of Ontarians don't have a doctor.
People can barely afford rent.
They can barely afford to buy a home.
The drug and addiction crisis is getting out of control.
Our cities look like a sci-fi movie with the amount of carnage and death on our streets.
I mean, this is really getting out of control.
The province is not as good as it was before.
And yet, that wasn't really the line we got from the opposition.
David, the opposition said they didn't even want the election in the first place.
No, 100%, Harrison.
And I mean, and their coffers were depleted as well.
Let's not forget.
And I'm going to further date myself in regard to how our cities look.
I remember back in 1987, I'm growing up in Toronto for all of my life except for four years.
And I can tell you back in 1987, Peter Rustinoff said, Toronto is New York as run by the Swiss.
Now we are headed towards San Francisco North.
That, you know, New York run by the Swiss, that sailed years ago.
The city is dirty.
There is homelessness everywhere.
We're having the worst crime wave ever.
And that's the thing, you know, Harrison.
What I find incredible about this election, you mentioned early on, never let a crisis go to waste.
Well, we have a housing crisis.
We have a health care crisis.
We have a cost of living crisis.
We have a crime crisis.
But the only crisis that seems to resonate or seemed to resonate, past tense, given that the Ford PCs have won again, is the fact that the Doug Ford PCs rolled the dice.
We're going to go up against a candidate not on the ballot, namely Donald Trump and the impending tariffs.
And you need a champion to fight for you because basically, if you think the cost of living is bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet if those 25% tariffs come in.
And I got to say, Harrison, I call him like I see him.
It looks like that strategy worked.
It absolutely did work.
And you will see almost certainly once Mark Kearney wins a liberal leadership race, they're going to try this as well.
They're going to go straight to an election, I think, because this is what is driving Canadian politics.
The threat of tariffs basically threw everything else in this country out the window.
We seem to forget about all of the issues that are driving our country into the depths.
And it's really, it's really too bad.
But I will say there's two things on this.
I think the reaction across the country to this tariff threat has actually been positive.
We're now finally getting some traction and some serious talk about border policy and border security.
We're also now getting some serious talk about interprovincial trade barriers.
These things don't really become serious issues until in this country until it's really prompted.
So I think that's positive.
I will, I have to say, you know, I was listening to your previous segment, and I think that it's important to give a woman named Bobby Ann Brady her flowers.
She won again.
She won as an independent, opposing the PC party from the right.
What the new Blue Party, what the Ontario Party was trying to do, Bobby Ann Brady on her own as an independent has been able to do it and get a seat, which is more than what the new blue and Ontario party can say for themselves tonight.
And I think that that's a big lesson that a lot of these upstart parties and you can call them fringe parties, but parties that are trying to break the establishment in this country, and I'm thinking mostly about the PPC at a federal level.
You win by dominating the ground game, picking or riding and doing everything you can, putting in the real graft, the hard work to get out the vote.
It's a lot more important to have someone in the game when it's all said and done than to put up a good fight and have nothing to say for it.
Go ahead.
I just think that I think that is the lesson that these parties need to learn.
They need to realize that whatever Bobby Ann Brady was doing on her own with her small team in Haldeman, Norfolk is the answer for how you get in the game.
You know, I couldn't agree more, Harrison.
You know, I've met a lot of great people at the Ontario Party, a lot of great people at the New Blue Party.
I have all kinds of respect for Jim Carahalios and Derek Sloan.
I would just love to lock them in a room and say, you ain't coming out until you put your heads together and run under one banner.
Because right now, your focus is split.
I think there might be some sort of bad blood between the two camps, which I don't understand.
But you are right.
Better to have one solitary member at Queen's Park, or in the case of the Greens, too, than just, I guess, unfocused opposition.
Tell me, Harrison, as you watch the campaigns unfold, did anything stand out?
I mean, you mentioned that its official Bonnie Crombie has lost her seat.
I find that absolutely staggering.
She is the former mayor of Mississauga of a decade.
She was running against, I think, a political neophyte in terms of Patrick Brown's mother-in-law.
Your best friend, David.
I know.
Well, when it comes to Patrick Brown, it's less politics and more paint in place, if you know what I'm saying.
And what I'm getting, you know, one of the bizarre sidebars, I addressed it earlier with Jim Carahalios, Harrison, is that can you possibly explain why the Patrick Brown people seem to be getting welcomed back into this party?
It was only seven years ago when a palace coup ousted Patrick Brown six months, which is barely hardly any time before the next provincial election.
Everything turned out, of course, rosy for Ford.
But I don't get it.
Yeah, well, I think the case with Patrick Brown is that he is the ultimate pragmatist and he just reads the situation as it is in front of him and does what he needs to do to get the best result for himself at whatever moment that is, depending on really not even depending on the circumstances.
You know, many people who are really, really have their heart in the game are going to hold on to some grudges, especially if in the case of Patrick Brown, who was set to win, was set to be the premier.
You know, David, it could have been Patrick Brown winning his third majority government tonight, you know, if he didn't get cooed out of the job, if he didn't get backstabbed in the middle of the night, basically.
But I think what I've heard from some people involved in the PC party and involved in that operation was that Bonnie Crombie and Patrick Brown have their own beef.
And so this was a part of Patrick Brown getting one up on Bonnie Crombie.
This may be him just, you know, setting himself up for another fight.
But really, I can't explain why he would do this.
The only explanation I can find is that he had a bigger gripe with Bonnie Crombie than he did with Doug Ford.
And so he saw this as an opportunity to backstab Bonnie Crombie, and he successfully did that.
I just, I'm amazed at Patrick Brown's political survival and his chameleon-like way of just holding on to power in whatever way possible.
It's remarkable that he's the mayor of Brampton.
I don't really even know how that came about, to be honest, but he pulled it off and he's still on the job.
You know what, Harrison?
I kind of have an idea how he became the mayor of Brampton.
And I don't want to say anything that's going to get me into trouble.
But if I had Bonnie Crombie's ear right now, I would reach out to Elections Ontario and maybe even the OPP and the RCMP.
I would ask for an audit of what happened in the election tonight.
I'm just telling you what my sources are telling me.
We don't call him sneaky Patrick Brown for nothing.
So if Bonnie Crombie gets wind of this, because after all, I don't know if you saw our report last week, Harrison.
We indicated that senior city of Brampton staffers were working on Patrick Brown's mother-in-law's campaign in a different city from Brampton, presumably on the taxpayer dime and time.
And this is exactly what happened in 2022 when Patrick Brown ran for federal leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
Same deal, using staffers from a different city at his secret Vaughan headquarters, which turned out to be a donation in kind.
I don't want to say too much more other than I'm kind of surprised he's not behind bars right now.
Harrison, last word goes to you, my friend.
Well, the thing that I'm thinking about now is I'm just shocked at how weak the provincial opposition has been over the past, it will be likely eight years.
I mean, I just can't believe that the liberal Ontario leader has lost their seat now in the second election in a row.
They barely just made official party status.
That number is 12 seats.
They're now up to 14 seats, at least as CTV is calling it.
It is remarkable that in provincial politics, there is really no opposition right now.
Doug Ford, the first Ontario premier to win three straight majority governments in 50 years, it's a remarkable political career.
It really is.
You have to say that.
But I think that Ontario voters are poorly served by having such a poor opposition.
Whether you're a liberal or a conservative, I think we just want competency in politics.
And we're just not getting that right now.
It's domination and one-party rule, it feels like.
But it might not be the worst thing.
It would be a lot worse if the NDP won tonight.
I think we can all agree on that.
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Well, that is indeed what happened in 1990 under very eerie dissimilar circumstances.
Harrison, I really appreciate your analysis.
And before you go, where can our viewers read your stuff?
You can find me on social media on X. Just search my name, Harrison Faulkner.
I'll be there on X.
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Hello, my friends.
It's the most astonishing political video I've seen.
Well, I can't even think of another time ever.
I'm talking about the meeting between Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, and Donald Trump and JD Vance, the president and vice president of the United States.
What started out as a sort of a celebration of coming together with a peace deal that seems like it's almost about to be born, turned into an acrimonious argument, hollering over each other, a little bit of name-calling, just astonishing.
And Vladimir Zelensky basically being shown the door afterwards.
I've never seen anything like it.
I'm going to play about almost 10 minutes of it, and I'm going to stop every moment and just give you my reaction.
Frankly, I encourage you to watch the whole thing.
In fact, there's a longer version of it that is worth watching.
It's just unbelievable, and it's roiling the entire world.
I really want you to see.
You got to see the body language, not just here, which is why I'd like you to get the video version of this podcast.
Go to rebelnewsplus.com, click subscribe.
It's eight bucks a month, and you get the video side of things, and you support us at Rebel News.
But you really have to watch it with your own eyes.