Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

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Speaker 4 You're in no position to dictate that.

Speaker 5 Remember this.

Speaker 7 You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.

Speaker 8 We're going to feel very good.

Speaker 8 We're going to feel very good and very strong.

Speaker 8 You're right now not in a very good position.

Speaker 10 You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position, and it happens to be right about it.

Speaker 6 From the very beginning of the war, you're not in a good position.

Speaker 8 You don't have the cards right now.

Speaker 2 A shameful moment in American history, a day that will live in infamy, where Donald Trump and J.D.

Speaker 2 Vance laundered Russian propaganda directly into the Oval Office, where Ukrainian President Zelensky was a guest. And Donald Trump and J.D.

Speaker 2 Vance started yelling at Zelensky with Putin's talking points.

Speaker 2 President Zelensky stood up for himself, for his country, for democracies around the world, and powerfully pushed back at Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.

Speaker 2 Let me show you more of what unfolded in the Oval Office. Here is another angle where J.D.

Speaker 2 Vance starts spreading Putin propaganda and then President Zelensky pushes back, then Donald Trump starts yelling at Zielinski. Watch from this angle.
Let's play it.

Speaker 12 If 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.

Speaker 12 Please, do you think that if you will speak very loudly about the warnings? He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly.
Your country is in big trouble. Can I have a question? No, no.

Speaker 12 You've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble.
I know.

Speaker 12 I know. You're not winning this.

Speaker 12 You have a damn good chance of coming out.

Speaker 12 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 thanks

Speaker 12 in this cabinet. And not only in this cabinet.
We gave you

Speaker 12 a stupid president $350 billion. You won't.
We gave you military equipment. You woke up.
And your men are brave, but they have to use our military equipment.

Speaker 12 If you didn't have our military equipment,

Speaker 12 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

Speaker 12 in two weeks, of course, yes. It's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this.

Speaker 12 To say thank you, I said a lot of times.

Speaker 12 Except that there are disagreements, and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out of the American media when you're wrong. We know that you're wrong.

Speaker 12 But you see, I think it's good for the American people to see what's going on.

Speaker 12 I think it's very important. That's why I kept this story so long.

Speaker 12 You have to be thankful. You don't have the car.

Speaker 12 You're buried there.

Speaker 12 People are dying.

Speaker 12 You're running low in soldiers.

Speaker 12 You're running low in soldiers. It would be a damn good thing.

Speaker 12 Then you tell us, I don't want to cease fire. I don't want to ceasefire.
I want to go, and I want this.

Speaker 12 Look, if you can get a ceasefire right now, I tell you, you take it so the bullets stop flying and your men stop forcing kills.

Speaker 13 We want to stop the war.

Speaker 12 But you're saying you don't want to stop. But I sent to you.
I want to ceasefire. With guarantees.
Because you get a ceasefire faster than a degree. Ask our people about a ceasefire, what they think.

Speaker 12 That wasn't

Speaker 12 for you. That wasn't with me.

Speaker 12 That wasn't with a guy named Biden, who was not a smart person.

Speaker 12 That was with the president. It was your president.
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.

Speaker 12 Obama gave you sheets. In fact, the statement is Obama gave sheets and Trump gave javelins.

Speaker 12 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 guards.

Speaker 2 Here's another clip from that first interaction that I showed at the start of the video. Let's play it.

Speaker 14 I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.

Speaker 12 Yes, but if you're president, Mr.

Speaker 14 President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media.

Speaker 18 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 country.

Speaker 19 Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?

Speaker 18 I have been to

Speaker 19 come once.

Speaker 18 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.

Speaker 20 President.

Speaker 17 Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military? We have problems.

Speaker 15 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?

Speaker 19 A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning.
Sure. First of all, during the war, everybody has problems.
Even you.

Speaker 19 But you have a nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future.

Speaker 8 God bless you. You don't know that.
God bless you. God bless.
You will not have

Speaker 8 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.

Speaker 19 I'm not telling you.

Speaker 4 Because you're in no position to dictate that.

Speaker 19 Remember this.

Speaker 7 You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.

Speaker 8 We're going to feel very good.

Speaker 4 We're going to feel very good and very strong.

Speaker 9 You will feel influence.

Speaker 8 You're right now not in a very good position.

Speaker 10 You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad

Speaker 11 and he happens to be right about it.

Speaker 6 From the very beginning of the war, you're not in a good position.

Speaker 8 You don't have the cards right now.

Speaker 7 With us, you start having cards.

Speaker 9 You're not playing cards.

Speaker 21 Right now, you don't wear your playing cards.

Speaker 11 I'm wearing

Speaker 21 a card. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people.

Speaker 9 You're gambling with World War III.

Speaker 11 You're gambling with World War III.

Speaker 7 And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country.

Speaker 11 I'm going to ask you to

Speaker 7 far more than a lot of people say they should have.

Speaker 5 Have you said thank you once?

Speaker 11 A lot of times. No, even today.

Speaker 6 You said thank you.

Speaker 15 Even today.

Speaker 5 If 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.

Speaker 2 Here's more from that Oval Office interaction. Let's play it.

Speaker 19 Yes, but after that, he broke the ceasefire.

Speaker 22 He killed our people and he didn't exchange prisoners. We signed the exchange of prisoners, but he didn't do it.

Speaker 22 What kind of diplomacy, GD, you are speaking about?

Speaker 6 What do you mean?

Speaker 16 I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.

Speaker 24 Yes, but if you...

Speaker 20 Mr.

Speaker 16 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.

Speaker 18 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 conflict.

Speaker 19 You have been to Ukraine Ukraine that you say what problems we have.

Speaker 18 I have been to

Speaker 18 I have actually I've actually watched and seen the stories and I know that what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr.

Speaker 20 President.

Speaker 15 Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military?

Speaker 19 Yeah, and do you think that it's respectful

Speaker 5 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?

Speaker 19 A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning.
Sure.

Speaker 13 First of all, during the war, everybody has problems.

Speaker 19 Even you, but you have a nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future. God or less.
You don't know that. God bless.
God bless. You don't know how to work.

Speaker 8 Don't tell us what.

Speaker 2 Here, Trump doesn't even know what year the Russia-Ukraine war started. Let's play it.

Speaker 16 What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy.

Speaker 20 That's what President Trump is doing.

Speaker 19 Can I ask you?

Speaker 13 Sure. Yeah?

Speaker 25 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Okay.

Speaker 11 So

Speaker 19 he occupied

Speaker 19 our parts, big parts of Ukraine, parts of East and Crimea.

Speaker 19 So he occupied it on 2014.

Speaker 13 So

Speaker 19 during a lot of years, I'm not speaking about Joe 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.

Speaker 19 But during 2014, nobody stopped him. He just occupied and took.
He killed people. You know what the contact.
2015.

Speaker 19 2014. 2014 and 2014.
2014.

Speaker 27 So

Speaker 20 he was not here. Yeah, but

Speaker 2 by the way, this follows the meeting that Donald Trump had yesterday with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Kier Starmer, where Donald Trump did not even know what the AUKUS

Speaker 2 alliance is here. Play this clip.

Speaker 24 We've been discussing AUKUS with the the Australians and the Brits. Will you be discussing AUKUS with the Prime Minister, sir?

Speaker 27 What does that mean?

Speaker 16 AUKUS, the Australia-U.S.

Speaker 24 Defense Alliance.

Speaker 27 Well, we'll be discussing that. We've had another great relationship, and you have too, with Australia.

Speaker 27 We've had a very good relationship with Australia, Mr.

Speaker 23 President.

Speaker 2 Now, today started with the way diplomacy is supposed to go down. You had President Zelensky visiting with a bipartisan delegation from the United States Senate.

Speaker 2 Here's what Zelensky wrote earlier in the day before that debacle in the Oval Office.

Speaker 2 Zelensky wrote, An important visit to the United States in Washington, I met with a bipartisan delegation from the United States Senate.

Speaker 2 Our discussion focused on the continued military assistance for Ukraine, relevant legislative initiatives, my meeting with President Trump, efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace, our vision for ending the war, and importance of robust security guarantees.

Speaker 2 We take pride in having strategic partners and friends like the United States.

Speaker 2 We are grateful for the unwavering bicameral and bipartisan support for Ukraine throughout all the years of Russia's full-scale aggression. Let me play this for you right here.

Speaker 27 Oh, Marian, thank you so much.

Speaker 11 It's very good to see you.

Speaker 13 How are you?

Speaker 13 Hi,

Speaker 13 guys.

Speaker 13 Thank you very much.

Speaker 13 Thank you so much.

Speaker 23 Happy to see you.

Speaker 23 We know each other. It's not the first meeting, and I'm very proud that Ukraine has such big strategic,

Speaker 23 even not partner, not only partner friends like the United States. So we are very thankful for this.

Speaker 25 We're here today as a show of support. Show of support.
We have committee chairs.

Speaker 2 That was a video that President Zelensky posted. And just so you can see here,

Speaker 2 the contrast.

Speaker 2 Well, let me show you this clip as well here, though, where a reporter asks, what if Russia breaks the ceasefire? Let's play this clip. Let's play it.

Speaker 20 She's asking, what if Russia breaks the ceasefire?

Speaker 27 What if anything? What if the bomb drops on your head right now?

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 27 What if they broke it? I don't know. They broke it with Biden because Biden, they didn't respect him.
They didn't respect Obama. They respect me.

Speaker 27 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?

Speaker 27 That was a phony Hunter Biden, Joe Biden scam. Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff.
It was a Democrat scam.

Speaker 27 And he had to go through that. And he did go through it.

Speaker 13 We didn't end up in a war.

Speaker 27 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.

Speaker 27 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.

Speaker 27 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.

Speaker 27 I don't know what happened, but he didn't break him 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.

Speaker 27 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.

Speaker 27 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.

Speaker 27 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?

Speaker 19 This is going to be great television.

Speaker 27 I will say that.

Speaker 13 We'll see what we can do about it.

Speaker 13 I think so.

Speaker 2 I mean, again, it is quite literally Russian propaganda. I wanted to show you this.

Speaker 2 This is what previously Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in his meeting with Zelensky, so you can just see the difference. Let's play it.

Speaker 26 Ukrainians have been fighting and dying not just to protect their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, they're also fighting to protect the rules-based order that keeps us all safe around the world

Speaker 26 and has for close to 80 years now. This period of peace, stability, prosperity for the world happens because we had rules around borders,

Speaker 26 around not invading your neighbors, that Russia chose deliberately to violate a number of years ago.

Speaker 26 That is why Canada and our allies are unequivocal on standing up against Vladimir Putin's illegal, immoral, unjust violations of the international order.

Speaker 26 and why I'm looking forward to sitting down with my European partners in a couple of hours to talk about how we will continue to stand unequivocally in defense of Ukraine, but also in defense of the rules that keep us all safe.

Speaker 2 Well, there you have it. Tell me what you think, folks.
Again, a day that will live in infamy in American history.

Speaker 2 Shocking that I'm even reporting on what just went down.

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