Trump praised in conservative media – Zelenskyy is scorned
Many commentators have been appalled by Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House, but the tone is exactly the opposite in conservative American news media.
"Standing up to the establishment requires enormous self-confidence," writes Scott McConnell in The American Conservative.
Yes, Trump dissed Zelenskyy in the White House, but above all he spoke out against the entire "establishment" that seems to want to continue to wage war against Russia, he says. He praises Trump for the realization that it is not in the United States' interest to wage war against a nuclear-armed Russia.
In the National Review, Rich Lowry certainly thinks that it was wrong for Trump and Vice President JD Vance to go after Zelenskyy. But at the same time he is "shocked" by how badly the Ukrainian president behaved.
"Is Zelenskyy an idiot?" he adds.
Lowry believes that it would have gone a long way for Zelensky to say something like that the war would never have happened if Trump had been president and that he appreciates his efforts to create peace.
“If he had done that, it would have gone well, and it wouldn’t have been difficult.”
Source: Ukraine demanded signing of mineral agreement at the White House – despite advice
The mineral agreement between the US and Ukraine was almost complete in connection with US envoy Keith Kellogg’s visit to Kyiv last week. But then Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, pushed for the agreement to be finalized and signed at the White House between the two presidents, an American source told the New York Post.
According to the source, Kellogg advised against this, knowing that the relationship between Zelensky and Trump first “needed to be strengthened.” But Ukraine is said to have stood its ground.
Furthermore, sources in the Ukrainian parliament state that the agreement was ratified in Kyiv on Thursday and that all that remained were the presidents' signatures.
But then everything fell apart.
- Now Zelenskyj has to figure out how to fix this on his own. We can't fix it for him, says the source.
Many commentators have been appalled by Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House, but the tone is exactly the opposite in conservative American news media.
"Standing up to the establishment requires enormous self-confidence," writes Scott McConnell in The American Conservative.
Yes, Trump dissed Zelenskyy in the White House, but above all he spoke out against the entire "establishment" that seems to want to continue to wage war against Russia, he says. He praises Trump for the realization that it is not in the United States' interest to wage war against a nuclear-armed Russia.
In the National Review, Rich Lowry certainly thinks that it was wrong for Trump and Vice President JD Vance to go after Zelenskyy. But at the same time he is "shocked" by how badly the Ukrainian president behaved.
"Is Zelenskyy an idiot?" he adds.
Lowry believes that it would have gone a long way for Zelensky to say something like that the war would never have happened if Trump had been president and that he appreciates his efforts to create peace.
“If he had done that, it would have gone well, and it wouldn’t have been difficult.”
Source: Ukraine demanded signing of mineral agreement at the White House – despite advice
The mineral agreement between the US and Ukraine was almost complete in connection with US envoy Keith Kellogg’s visit to Kyiv last week. But then Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, pushed for the agreement to be finalized and signed at the White House between the two presidents, an American source told the New York Post.
According to the source, Kellogg advised against this, knowing that the relationship between Zelensky and Trump first “needed to be strengthened.” But Ukraine is said to have stood its ground.
Furthermore, sources in the Ukrainian parliament state that the agreement was ratified in Kyiv on Thursday and that all that remained were the presidents' signatures.
But then everything fell apart.
- Now Zelenskyj has to figure out how to fix this on his own. We can't fix it for him, says the source.
Analysis: The attack dog finally got into a fight with Europe
It is not uncommon for an American vice president to verbally attack a visiting president. This is what the BBC's James Landale writes in an analysis, highlighting the fact that it was JD Vance – not Donald Trump – who started the fight.
Landale writes that the vice president's role is often to help the presidential candidate to victory and then "sit quietly by the boss's side". But Vance showed that he is not afraid to act as an attack dog, writes Landale.
He wonders if the fight was planned, and whether Vance might be laying the groundwork for him to become president himself in four years.
"Regardless of the answers, Vance appears to be more than just Trump's number two".
The Guardian's Andrew Roth believes that JD Vance took the lead role in a drama that may have marked the end of the European-American post-war alliance.
He writes about JD Vance's criticism of Europe during the security conference in Germany in February. At that time, the EU's foreign policy chief responded by saying that Vance seemed to want to have a fight with the EU, but that the alliance does not want to fight with friends.
"But on Friday, Vance finally got his fight."
It is not uncommon for an American vice president to verbally attack a visiting president. This is what the BBC's James Landale writes in an analysis, highlighting the fact that it was JD Vance – not Donald Trump – who started the fight.
Landale writes that the vice president's role is often to help the presidential candidate to victory and then "sit quietly by the boss's side". But Vance showed that he is not afraid to act as an attack dog, writes Landale.
He wonders if the fight was planned, and whether Vance might be laying the groundwork for him to become president himself in four years.
"Regardless of the answers, Vance appears to be more than just Trump's number two".
The Guardian's Andrew Roth believes that JD Vance took the lead role in a drama that may have marked the end of the European-American post-war alliance.
He writes about JD Vance's criticism of Europe during the security conference in Germany in February. At that time, the EU's foreign policy chief responded by saying that Vance seemed to want to have a fight with the EU, but that the alliance does not want to fight with friends.
"But on Friday, Vance finally got his fight."
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