The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Screams at Zelenskyy in Oval Office Meltdown

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Trump and J.D. Vance. Let me show you more of what unfolded in the Oval Office. Here is another angle where J.D. Vance starts spreading Putin propaganda and then President Zelensky pushes back. Then Donald Trump starts yelling at Zelensky. Watch from this angle. Let's play it. Even 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, do you think that if you will speak very loudly about the war...

He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble. Can I answer? 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've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble. I know. You're not winning.

I know. 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 thanks in this cabinet and ultimately in this cabinet. We gave you, you stupid president, $350 billion.

We gave you military equipment. And your men are brave, but they have to use 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 you... Maybe less.

In two weeks. Of course, yes. It's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this. Again, can you just say thank you? I said a lot of time series to 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 story so long. You have to be thankful. You don't have the cards. You're buried there. Your people have died. You're running low on soldiers.

You're running low on soldiers. It would be a damn good thing. Then you tell us, I don't want to cease fire. I don't want a ceasefire. I don't want a ceasefire. I want to go. And I want this. Look, if you can get a ceasefire right now, I tell you, you take it so the bullets stop

flying and your men stop. Of course we want to stop the war. But I said to you, we guarantee it. Because you'll get a ceasefire faster than any green. Ask our people about a 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 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 things. Obama gave you the javelins to take out all those things. Obama gave you sheets. In fact, the statement is Obama gave sheets and Trump gave javelins. 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. Here's another clip from that first interaction that I showed at the start of the video. Let's play it. I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. Yes, but if you are not strong. Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come to 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 an end to this conflict.

Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have? I have been to... Come once. 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 bringing people into your military? We have problems.

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 a nice ocean.

And don't feel now. But you will feel it in the future. God bless. You don't know that. Even you. But you have nice ocean and don't feel now. But you will feel it in the future. God bless. You don't know that. God bless. God bless. You will not have the 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. 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. You're right now not in a very good position.

You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position, and he's happened to be right about it. From the very beginning of the war, Mr. Rahab, I was... You don't have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards. I'm not playing cards. I'm very serious, Mr. President. I'm very serious. I'm the president of the world. 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 disrespectful to the country, this country. It's back to you. Far more than a lot of people said they should have. Have you said thank you once? A lot of times.

No, in this entire meeting, you said thank you. 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. Here's more from that Oval Office interaction. Let's play it. Yes, but after that, he broken this, his fire. He killed our people and he didn't exchange prisoners.

We signed the exchange of prisoners, but he didn't do it. What kind of diplomacy, J.D., 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. Yes, but if you are not strong... 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 trying to bring it into this conflict. Have you ever been to Ukraine? Did you say what problems we have? I have been to... Count once. 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. Do you disagree that you've had problems 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. 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 don't know that god bless you god bless you don't tell us what here trump doesn't even know what year the russia ukraine war started let's play it what makes america a good country is america engaging in diplomacy that's what president trump is doing can i ask 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 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 was?

2015. 2014. 2014. 2014. I was not here. Yeah. That's exactly 2015. 2014. 2014. 2014. I was not here. Yeah, but. That's exactly right. Yes.

And by the way, this follows the meeting that Donald Trump had yesterday with the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, where Donald Trump did not even know what the AUKUS alliance is. Here, play this clip with the Australians and and the Brits were you discussing you're discussing August with the Prime Minister sir what does that mean August the Australia US defense alliance yeah well we'll be discussing that we've had a another great relationship and you have to with Australia yeah we've had a very good relationship with Australia. 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. Here's what Zelensky wrote earlier in the day before that debacle in the Oval Office.

Zelensky wrote, an important visit to the United States. In Washington, I met with a bipartisan delegation from the United States Senate. 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 we take pride in having strategic partners and friends like the United States 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 thank you so much

happy to see you um we know each other it's not the first meeting and I'm very proud that Ukraine has such big strategic, not only partner, friends like the United States. So we are very thankful for this. We're here today as a show of support. Show of support. We have committee chairs. That was a video that President Zelensky posted. And just so you can see here the the contrast. 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. She's asking what if Russia breaks the ceasefire? What if they what if anything? What if the bomb drops on your head right now? OK, what have they broken?

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 did. I don't know what happened, but he didn't break it 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 uh i think we've seen enough what do you think this is going to be great television i will say that we'll see what we can do i mean again it is quite literally r propaganda. I wanted to show you this. 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. 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 and has for close to 80 years now. This period of peace, stability, prosperity for the world happens because we had rules around borders, around not invading your neighbors,

that Russia chose deliberately to violate a number of years ago. That is why Canada and our allies are unequivocal on standing up against Vladimir Putin's illegal, immoral, unjust violations of the international order, 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. Well, there you have it. Tell me what you think, folks. Again, a day that will live in infamy in American history. Shocking that I'm even reporting on what just went down. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 5 million subscribers. Let's grow this. Let's rise up, people, right now.

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