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Trump’s explosive clash with Zelenskyy: read the full transcript Meeting between US and Ukraine presidents descends into chaos at White House – here’s what they said, word for word Guardian staff and agencies in Washington Fri 28 Feb 2025 16.22 EST Share A meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy veered sharply off track in front of the television cameras as the US president berated his Ukrainian counterpart then abruptly called off a minerals deal with that he had said would be the first step towards a ceasefire with Russia. Here are the highlights, word-for-word, of the conversation between Trump, Zelenskyy and Vice-President JD Vance in the Oval Office. Zelenskyy: What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you are asking about? What do you mean? Vance: I’m talking about the kind of diplomacy that’s going to end the destruction of your country. Zelenskyy: Yes, but if you … Vance: Mr President, with respect, I think it’s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office and try ...

At Least Now We Know the Truth Trump and Vance undermine Ukraine •29KThe Atlantic by David Frum / Feb 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM//keep unread//hide Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. At least the Oval Office meeting held by President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was held in front of the cameras. False friendliness in public by Trump and Vance, followed by behind-the-scenes treachery, would have been much more dangerous to the Ukrainian cause. Instead, Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular. The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it. Today’s meeting gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States, however misguided. Trump and Vance displayed in ...

The Great Resegregation The Atlantic by Adam Serwer / Feb 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM//keep unread//hide Feedly AI found 2 Companies View All The nostalgia behind the slogan “Make America great again” has always provoked the obvious questions of just when America was great, and for whom. Early in the second Trump administration, we are getting the answer. In August, speaking with someone he believed to be a sympathetic donor, one of the Project 2025 architects, Russell Vought, said that a goal of the next Trump administration would be to “get us off of multiculturalism” in America. Now Vought is running Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, and the plan to end multiculturalism is proceeding apace. Much of the chaos, lawlessness, and destruction of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the administration’s central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender. Call it the “Great Resegregation.” [From the January/February 2024 issue...

early and often 5:00 A.M. Is Trump Building an International Authoritarian Alliance? Portrait of Ed Kilgore By Ed Kilgore, political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015 Elon Musk shows support for his scary German friends. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance/Getty It’s hardly news that Donald Trump and many of his top subordinates intensely dislike NATO and the entire set of international alliances they have inherited, and are also fond of right-wing global pariahs like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. But these inclinations are usually seen as subordinate to Trump’s America First orientation, in which the United States is generally less beholden to its allies and allowed to focus on its own interests, rather than the world’s many squabbles. At the start of Trump’s second term, however, a rather different approach to international affairs is taking shape. Far from leaving U.S. allies to their own devices, the new administration seems determined to encourage these nations to adopt regim...

I was a Jan. 6 juror. What I learned surprised me. Trump’s pardons of virtually all of the Jan. 6 rioters left me dejected. Am I safe? When the jury summons for federal criminal court arrived in my mailbox in November 2023, I knew I had to answer it. And not just because I had been deferring and deferring and now I was all out of deferments. I had to answer this one because in my gut I knew it wasn’t going to be just any old criminal case. I remember saying to my partner, “I bet you anything it’s a January 6 case.” Make sense of the latest news and debates with our daily newsletter At that point, it had been more than two years since a violent mob attacked the U.S. Capitol in the city that has been my home for 16 years. But criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were still making their way through the federal court in D.C. at a pretty steady clip. At the time my summons arrived, roughly 1,200 Jan. 6 cases had already been adjudicated, and there were still many mor...

Nobody Wants Gaz-a-Lago Trump's controversial Gaza takeover plan •500+The Atlantic by Yair Rosenberg / Feb 5, 2025 at 7:22 AM//keep unread//hide Is this article about Political Science? Move over, Greenland. Donald Trump has his eyes on a new prize: Gaza. At a news conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, the president declared that “the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip,” “level it out,” and “create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area.” These people would not all be Gazans, whom Trump suggested should be resettled elsewhere, at least temporarily. The president also expressed openness to deploying U.S. troops in order to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” Trump’s Gaz-a-Lago plan has just one minor defect: It is a nonstarter with pretty much all of the parties required to make it work. Fresh off failed forays into Iraq and Afghanistan, many Americans will bal...