Sean covers the press conference with President Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The effort is to get a cease-fire in Ukraine... President Trump is driving that effort now.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| Uh man, what a day this has been. | |
| What a historic day. | |
| It was kind of like it reminds me of being in the studio, radio studio, when the OJ verdict was being read. | |
| Because every single person that works, you know, in a you know, around me and all the people that I know gathering around a television and just captivated by the exchange that resulted in Vl uh uh uh uh Zelensky, President Zelensky of Ukraine walking out of the White House. | |
| Now, my sources have told me he was asked to leave. | |
| President Trump instructed Mike Walls and Senator and now Secretary of State Marco Rubio, get out. | |
| Get out of here. | |
| And and the president no longer wanted to see it. | |
| Now, there's all the only about 11 minutes that that or 12 minutes that aired. | |
| I want to play it at the top of this show just so you hear that part of it. | |
| But there's so much more because the media pool did not pick up what was nearly the full hour. | |
| So I think it's worth playing. | |
| Linda, what do you think? | |
| I gotta make an executive, you know, host decision here. | |
| And I think it is just something that most people have not heard because it wasn't covered by any of the networks. | |
| And I think we probably would have enough time, maybe in the last hour. | |
| I think it's a great idea, boss. | |
| Um because I can't, there's only so much I can say. | |
| There's so much wrong with this. | |
| I mean, Trump asking Zelensky basically to leave the White House. | |
| He came in and this was supposed to be a good day. | |
| This was supposed to be the signing of the Rare Earth Minerals Deal. | |
| And he got dressed up. | |
| Well, no, he didn't get dressed up because he he President Trump met him when his car pulled up and said, Oh, he got dressed up because he's wearing the typical black, you know, uniform that he always wears. | |
| And it's just sad on so many levels. | |
| But on the other hand, he came in with as I uh I don't think there's anybody that's been more supportive of Zelensky and America supporting Ukraine, but also supporting the end of the war than Senator Lindsey Graham, because he's been over to Ukraine with Zelensky eight, nine, ten times. | |
| And and to hear him, you know, saying, I I actually have the exact quotes in front of me. | |
| And he said he he had spoken to Zelensky the night before. | |
| He spoke to President Trump the night before, and they they met this morning with Zelensky, urged him to stay on message, be grateful, and and and work on the security deals, be positive and get a ceasefire. | |
| And what's the purpose of this? | |
| Now, I know that the media, and and this is where the media will never ever understand Donald Trump, which frustrates me to no end. | |
| Now, I'm gonna stop here and then I'm gonna come back to where I am. | |
| They don't understand Trump and Donald Trump. | |
| They all want call Putin a Nazi. | |
| And Trump addressed that today. | |
| Putin's a Nazi, and if they he listened to these idiots in the media all day, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, and then he's gonna pick up the phone and and try and you know, talk Vladimir Putin into the benefits of a peace deal. | |
| That's that's not how life or the world works. | |
| And this was the art of the deal with very severe consequences. | |
| In this case, I would argue for Ukraine. | |
| Because being disrespectful to the president and the vice president is not going to end up well for Zelensky. | |
| It just is not. | |
| And what he did today, you know, he he now is eliminated the support of the United States of America. | |
| Now, we're in this situation in large part. | |
| Let's go back and do a little history. | |
| We'll have time to play the 11 minutes. | |
| Um, we will. | |
| We'll have time to get to it. | |
| Um, I'll get it in this hour. | |
| I'm not I'm not telling you when I'm getting it in, but I do have to lay down. | |
| But if you go back, remember they were amassing troops, Putin was amassing troops on the Ukrainian border. | |
| And there are all these questions, do you think he's gonna go in? | |
| And I kept saying to myself, and I was saying on the air at the time, are you people really that dumb? | |
| You think he's moving all of these troops, all of this military equipment to the border because he's not planning on invading? | |
| And Joe Biden was asked, Well, what if he does invade? | |
| Well, it depends if it's a minor incursion or you know, something more severe. | |
| What do you mean a minor incursion? | |
| Why was he not more proactive? | |
| Why did he not get on the phone and talk to Putin and talk to Zelensky and work towards a negotiated settlement before they inv before the invasion ever started, and they were massing all these troops on the border. | |
| You think he's doing it because he's playing around, he has a history of doing this very thing. | |
| Georgia comes to mind. | |
| Let's see, what else comes to mind? | |
| Crimea comes to mind, and we knew what his territorial ambitions were. | |
| Remember, Crimea was annexed under Obama and Biden. | |
| This this war started under Joe Biden. | |
| And of all people, it's Donald Trump, you know, that wanted to bring a peace deal. | |
| And he very cleverly thinking really out of the box, didn't like the fact that America paid hundreds of billions of dollars because Joe Biden then tried to manage the war from the United States of America, which was insane. | |
| Remember, he nixed and vetoed the use of MiGs that were offered by Poland. | |
| That was in the very beginning of the conflict. | |
| Uh, maybe a year later, then he was telling Ukraine what weapons they couldn't use against Russia. | |
| Remember, they couldn't use cluster bombs and a few other things. | |
| And by the time he leaves office, he's authorizing the use of ballistic missiles that he was providing Ukraine, again, hundreds of U.S. taxpayer dollars. | |
| And and what happened is it evolved into a conflict, basically a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia. | |
| Now, what do I mean by proxy war? | |
| Because if we weren't providing hundreds of billions of dollars, I'm sorry, the military might of Russia. | |
| This is simple mathematics when it comes to warfare. | |
| They have more soldiers, they have more sophisticated equipment, they are more prepared for war, but if it wasn't for the United States and to a smaller extent European countries providing the weaponry to Ukraine, this war would have been over. | |
| Now, I do admire the Ukrainian people. | |
| They fought, they fought valiantly. | |
| Nobody's gonna convince me that that Putin's anything other than a murdering dictator thug with territorial ambitions, but that doesn't mean you can't do a deal with him. | |
| That doesn't mean right now the Russia's economy is on the precipice. | |
| They've had their own severe loss of life. | |
| They have their own the Russian people have had it with this war. | |
| They didn't want the war to begin with. | |
| So there's a moment in history here, and so then everything that was put in place, everything that was supposed to happen, didn't happen today. | |
| Now, let me play the beginning of the the 11 minute exchange, and then we'll later in the program play no, I think I'm gonna do half of it now, and then we'll come back to it. | |
| And and I'm just gonna play the beginning of it, give you a taste of it, and we'll play it at the bottom of the half hour as well. | |
| Because this really is historic. | |
| It reminds me of Reagan and Reykjavik. | |
| If you recall, Reagan was a staunch believer in strategic defense. | |
| The media mocked him. | |
| Star Wars, ha ha. | |
| Well, that that technology resulted in the Iron Dome and and many other versions of it. | |
| And that took out ballistic missiles fired by Iran into Israel. | |
| The President's now talking about an iron dome being built here. | |
| But Reagan walked away from that summit and said and no deal. | |
| And and the same pro we it just didn't unfold in public like this one did. | |
| Well, if I didn't align myself with both of them, you'd never have a deal. | |
| You want me to say really terrible things about Putin and then say, hi, Vladimir, how are we doing on the deal today? | |
| That doesn't work that way. | |
| I'm not aligned with Putin. | |
| I'm not aligned with anybody. | |
| I'm aligned with the United States of America and for the good of the world. | |
| I'm aligned with the world. | |
| And I want to get 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. | |
| Uh so it's not a question of alignment. | |
| I have to 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 gonna get a deal that way. | |
| So that's the way it goes. | |
| Well that I would respond to this. | |
| So look, for 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 it our parts, big parts of Ukraine, part of East and Crimea. | |
| Uh so he occupied it on 2014. | |
| So during a lot of years, I'm not speaking about just Biden, but those time 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 2015. | |
| So how is he killed? | |
| Yeah, but yes, but uh during 2014 till 2022, you know, the si were the situation the same. | |
| That people are been dying on the contact line. | |
| Nobody stopped him. | |
| You know that we had conversations with him, a lot of conversations, my bilateral conversation, and we signed with him, me, like in you, 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. | |
| Guess contract. | |
| Yes, but after that, he broken 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, GD, you are speaking about? | |
| What what do you what do you what do you mean? | |
| I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's gonna end the destruction of your country. | |
| Yes, but if you're Mr. President, 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 bringing into this conflict. | |
| I have been to how much I have actually I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President. | |
| Are do you disagree that you've had problems with bringing people in 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 fusion. | |
| You don't know that. | |
| Unless you don't know war. | |
| 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. | |
| I'm not telling you because you're in no position to dictate that. | |
| 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 influenced. | |
| 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. | |
| With us, you start having cards. | |
| Right now you don't play cards, Brett. | |
| You're playing with the lives of millions 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. | |
| I'm not sure what's badly. | |
| Far more than a lot of people said they should have. | |
| Have you said thank you once? | |
| This entire meeting. | |
| No, in this entire media, you said thank you today. | |
| All right, we're gonna pick it up from there on the other side of the half hour, and then we're gonna play this. | |
| What was played publicly was only about 11 to 12 minutes. | |
| We'll play the rest of the segment, then we're gonna play the entirety of the exchange as the program unfolds today. | |
| I'm not sure exactly when we'll get to it. | |
| We'll figure we'll figure it out. | |
| It's live radio. | |
| What do I know? | |
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| Well, so obvious. | |
| Uh now we are seeing that Zelensky releasing this statement after he got lit up by very frankly being very arrogant before President Trump and J.D. Vance, and in the end just asked to leave the White House because he came in with a horrible attitude. | |
| The biggest loser today is him. | |
| Because now the White House is talking about okay, they're just gonna double down their efforts to get rid of waste fraud abuse in government, and that means that Zelensky and Europe now are on their own because Zelensky was being was just not being smart. | |
| He had the opportunity of a lifetime to partner with the United States. | |
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| We've had what nearly a year and a half of war in the Middle East. | |
| I don't think that President Trump is gonna have as big a problem. | |
| Well, I mean, you never know. | |
| I mean, I I think for example, out of Gaza, Hamas is just gonna be destroyed by Prime Minister Netanyahu. | |
| When Once this hostage deal, body exchange deal is finished, after the way this thing has been handled, I could tell you right now, I promise you, and I have no insider information. | |
| I just have known BB for 30 years, like I've known Trump for 30 years. | |
| And that's another thing about today. | |
| It's they don't if you read the art of the deal, it says in that book, be willing to walk from any deal up until the last second. | |
| Zelensky killed this deal today. | |
| Lindsay Graham of all people, you know, was was like infuriated. | |
| Because he tried to, you know, get this rare earth minerals deal behind the scene, and he was working on the president's behalf in ways that I knew that others didn't know. | |
| And I know Lindsay takes a lot of heat because he was a big Zelensky supporter, and he and I have had a long, you know, long discussions about it, and he was one of the biggest advocates of the rare earth mineral deal. | |
| It just wasn't public. | |
| I'm telling you because I knew, and I just tell the truth. | |
| And he said in an ex posting, I have never been more proud of at Real Donald Trump and vice president at J.D. Vance for standing up for America first. | |
| He said, President at real Donald Trump invited me to the White House today for the signing of the critical minerals deal between the U.S. and uh Ukraine. | |
| I'm honored to attend. | |
| Why was he invited? | |
| Because of what I just told you. | |
| He was a big part in helping facilitate the negotiations along with Secretary of State Rubio, Mike Waltz, J.D. Vance. | |
| You know, there are a lot of people involved. | |
| Now, I don't this sources I have. | |
| For example, you get things on the record and you get things off the record. | |
| You had things on the record and off the record, but I'm working sources all the time. | |
| I can tell you that the same thing is happening in Israel, and that a lot of discussions are taking place with a lot of Arab nations. | |
| I can tell you know who they are, the Saudis, the Qataris, Jordan, Egypt, the Emirates, they're all involved, because they're all going to have to be part of the solution. | |
| And that is, you know, removing the rubble, demilitarizing Gaza, as and so on and so forth. | |
| But the sad thing is in the meantime, we have a humanitarian disaster because of, you know, this Seven Front War that Israel has been having to fight. | |
| And you've got all of these people, refugees, uh, and evacuees, tens and tens of thousands of them from all these war-torn areas. | |
| First responders, volunteers, wounded soldiers, even elderly Holocaust survivors and families, people that lost everything. | |
| And that's why we proudly on this program have partnered with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, because they are providing the food, the water, the shelter, the clothing, the medicine, the bare necessities that are desperately needed, and they don't have enough money. | |
| I'm just going to be very blunt with you to take care of the needs of the many needs of people as a result of this horrific war against radical Islamic terrorism. | |
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| I mean, they these people have lost everything. | |
| And the government, frankly, does not have the time, money, resources right now to take care of everybody in need. | |
| And if it's not for your generosity, these people are literally out in the cold. | |
| 888-488-IFCJ today. | |
| Um, it is interesting to watch President Zelensky sending out, and I I I can tell you what this is right now. | |
| This is regret. | |
| This is remorse. | |
| Because J.D. Vance, and we're going to go back a little bit from where we were, we're going to pick it up. | |
| Uh because and then we're going to play the whole exchange, which went on for like an hour. | |
| And I don't think anyone else has played it except C-SPAN. | |
| And I just I think it's worth hearing all of it. | |
| So you because it was like history in the making, and we were able to catch it all, but the media only ran about 12 minutes of it. | |
| Anyway, um, but Zelensky was asked to leave by Mike Waltz and by a Secretary of State Marco Rubio. | |
| And that was it. | |
| They were supposed to have a joint presser. | |
| And so it's it's pretty incredible what what unfolded here today. | |
| And then Zelensky leaves, and he puts out a statement. | |
| Thank you, America. | |
| And this was a point JD said, when have you ever said thank you? | |
| Hundreds of billions of dollars, not millions, billions, billions, billions, billions. | |
| Why do we always have trouble comprehending the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion? | |
| We do. | |
| Hundreds of billions. | |
| That's like over a quarter of a trillion dollars of U.S. money. | |
| He had an opportunity for a rare earth mineral deal that would have ensured America's presence and support within Ukraine. | |
| And it would have taken our relationship to the next level. | |
| It would have provided massive financial incentives for Ukraine. | |
| It would have resulted in a ceasefire and then hopefully a peace agreement. | |
| And then as a result, with the money and then the mineral deal with the U.S., then that money could be used to rebuild their infrastructure and invite back their population that have been refugees in other countries and rebuild their society. | |
| This goes on longer. | |
| There's not going to be a country left. | |
| And when you know President Trump started saying you don't have any cards, we're giving you the cards. | |
| He goes, Well, I'm not playing cards. | |
| What a dumb statement. | |
| They didn't have any cards. | |
| Thank you, America. | |
| Thank you for your support. | |
| Thank you for your visit. | |
| Thank you, Appus, Congress, the American people, Ukraine needs just and la just and lasting peace. | |
| And we are working exactly for that. | |
| Well, you're not. | |
| Because you would have stayed today and you wouldn't have acted that way in the Oval Office. | |
| Before Zelensky started complaining, Trump had agreed to lower Ukraine's repayment terms from 500 billion to just 90 billion. | |
| This just broke by Red State. | |
| I haven't confirmed it on my own. | |
| You know, this was not a situation. | |
| President Trump does not have to get involved in this. | |
| He doesn't. | |
| This is where Joe Biden failed on a spectacular level. | |
| This devolved into a Russia U.S. proxy war because without U.S. weaponry and without U.S. monies, Ukraine can't fight this war. | |
| You fa Ukraine will get eviscerated. | |
| Do I want that? | |
| Nobody wants that. | |
| And that's why the president has been spending time, energy, money, resources to try and come up with a solution. | |
| And instead of falling into the trap that the media has wanted him to fall into, call Putin a Nazi. | |
| Call him a Nazi. | |
| He started it. | |
| He started it. | |
| He turned. | |
| The only reason that the president was being critical in the beginning of Zelensky, he sort of like keeps going back and forth between, yeah, I'll do the mineral deal. | |
| And he backed off it. | |
| And Trump's pissed. | |
| You know, it's got a look kind of like a handshake deal. | |
| Lindsay Graham's statements were brutal today to Zelensky. | |
| And he had, I'm sure he's probably pissed off too. | |
| Um, and you know, for the president to offer this partnership would have provided the out for Ukraine to save their country. | |
| Not a perfect deal. | |
| The time for the perfect deal or the better deal would have been if Biden did his job while Putin was amassing troops on the border, and he didn't do that. | |
| And anyway, let's go back to this exchange, and then we'll play the entirety of this meeting, because I think it's worth playing, uh, as the show progresses today. | |
| Let's go back to where we were. | |
| You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position 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. | |
| With us, you start having cards. | |
| Right now, you don't explain. | |
| You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. | |
| You're gambling with World War III. | |
| You're gambling with World War III. | |
| And what you're doing is very disre disrespectful to the country, this country. | |
| I'm back to you. | |
| Far more than a lot of people said they should have. | |
| Have you said thank you once? | |
| This entire meeting. | |
| No, in this entire meeting. | |
| You said thank you today. | |
| You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned 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're saying that if you will speak very loudly about the war you've got. | |
| He's not speaking loudly. | |
| He's not speaking loudly. | |
| Your country's in big trouble. | |
| Can I do that? | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| 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 our staying in our country, staying strong from the very beginning of the war. | |
| We've been alone. | |
| And we are sancled. | |
| I said thanks. | |
| You haven't been in this cabinet. | |
| You don't know these cabinets. | |
| We gave you through this stupid president 350 billion dollars. | |
| You won't be able to do that. | |
| We gave you military equipment. | |
| You won't be able to do that. | |
| And you men are brave, but they had to use our military equipment. | |
| If you didn't have our military equipment, if you 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 something less. | |
| In two weeks, of course, yes. | |
| It's gonna be a very hard thing to do business like this. | |
| I said at all. | |
| Except American people 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, you people are dying. | |
| You're running low on soldiers. | |
| Listen, please. | |
| You're running low on soldiers. | |
| It would be a damn good thing. | |
| And then you can then you tell us, I don't want to cease fire, I don't want to cease fire. | |
| I want to go, and I wanted this. | |
| I look, if you can get a ceasefire right now, I tell you you take it so the bullets stop flying and your men stuff causing killing. | |
| Of course, we want to stop the war. | |
| But you're saying you don't want to cease fire to you. | |
| I want to cease fire because you get a ceasefire faster than any great. | |
| I'll tell our people about cis fire, 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 your that was with Obama. | |
| It was your president. | |
| 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. | |
| You gotta 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. | |
| Well, my question's a vice president. | |
| I'm sorry, he's gonna be a tough deal to make. | |
| Because the attitudes have to change. | |
| What if Russia breaks the spirit? | |
| What if Russia breaks what they do that? | |
| I said that he says conversation right now. | |
| What are you saying? | |
| She's asking what if Russia breaks the ceasefire. | |
| Well, what if they what if anything? | |
| What if a bomb drops on your head right now? | |
| Okay, what if they broke it? | |
| I don't know. | |
| They broke it with Biden because Biden didn't respect him. | |
| They didn't respect Obama. | |
| They respect me. | |
| Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. | |
| He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. | |
| You ever hear of that deal? | |
| That was a phony, that was a phony Hunter Biden Joe Biden scam. | |
| Hillary Clinton, Shifty Adam Schiff. | |
| It was a Democrat scam. | |
| And he had to go through that. | |
| And he did go through it. | |
| We didn't end up in a war. | |
| And he went through it. | |
| He was accused of all that stuff. | |
| He had nothing to do with it. | |
| It came out of Hunter Biden's bathroom. | |
| It came out of Hunter Biden's bedroom. | |
| It was disgusting. | |
| And then they said, Oh, oh, the laptop from hell was made by Russia. | |
| The 51 agents. | |
| The whole thing was a scam. | |
| And he had to put up with that. | |
| He was being accused of all that stuff. | |
| All I can say is this. | |
| He might have broken deals with Obama and Bush, and he might have broken them with Biden. | |
| He did, maybe. | |
| Maybe he didn't. | |
| I don't know what happened. | |
| But he didn't break them with me. | |
| He wants to make a deal. | |
| I don't know if he can make a Deal. | |
| The problem is I've empowered you to be a tough guy. | |
| And I don't think you'd be a tough guy without the United States. | |
| And your people are very brave. | |
| But you're either going to make a deal or we're out. | |
| And if we're out, you'll fight it out. | |
| I don't think it's going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out. | |
| But you don't have the cards. | |
| But once we sign that deal, you're in a much better position. | |
| But you're not acting at all thankful. | |
| And that's not a nice thing. | |
| I'll be honest, that's not a nice thing. | |
| All right. | |
| I think we've seen enough. | |
| What do you think? | |
| This is going to be great television, I will say that. | |
| Well, then the president released a statement. | |
| We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today. | |
| Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation. | |
| And there's such fire and pressure. | |
| It is amazing what's what comes out through a motion, and I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for peace if America's 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 and its cherished Oval Office. | |
| He can come back when he is ready for peace. | |
| And then Zelensky released his own statement. | |
| And he said, Thank you, America. | |
| Thank you for your support. | |
| Thank you for the visit. | |
| The American people and the American people, Ukraine just needs a lasting peace, and we're working exactly for that. | |
| It was the biggest missed opportunity. | |
| Now, there is a report that the rare earth mineral deal had been signed prior to the arrival today. | |
| We're going to get to the bottom of that in the course of everything. | |
| You know, I think it was Lindsey Graham was asked a question. | |
| He did a gaggle after it, and he said, I've never been more proud of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. | |
| He said, Well, you know, when asked about other countries and how what they're going to think of this, he said, uh, I don't want uh he said, Well, if I'm China, if I'm Iran or would be adversary, I'd be very worried right now. | |
| He gave a master class in how to stand up for America, and he did. | |
| Today was a master class in how to stand up for America. | |
| And for those of you in the state-run legacy media mob that is dead, this is why you will never understand him. | |
| He negotiates and he gave the opportunity of a lifetime to Zelensky. | |
| He might, I might be I'm gonna give you my prediction. | |
| He'll be back. | |
| My prediction is he has no choice but to come back. | |
| And Trump will be nice, he'll he'll accept this. | |
| He'll he'll welcome him back. | |
| 800 or somebody else, or he'll be replaced, and that person will be back. | |
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