President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Ukrainian Dictator President Zelenskyy met in front of the TV cameras, and after a long, reasonably civil conversation, Vance said something that set Zelenskyy off, and the conversation went sideways, with Trump concluding that Zelenskyy was not showing gratitude and was unwilling to seek a peace, and talks could continue after he accepted that fact, and the meeting ended unceremoniously. Zelensky was later interviewed by Fox News' Bret Behr, and doubled down. Stacy McCain reports
Zelenskyy Gets Pimp-Slapped on Live TV by Trump in White House Meeting UPDATE: Lindsey Graham Blames Zelenskyy for ‘Complete, Utter Disaster’. Sundance at CTH hosts the whole affair at
President Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Meet at White House. Mary Chastain at LI,
Trump Cuts Talks With Zelensky After Fiery Oval Office Exchange, "Trump to Zelensky: “You’re right now not in a very good position. You’ve allowed yourself to be in a very bad position.”
Collin Rugg @CollinRugg, JUST IN:
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance excoriate President Zelensky during heated meeting in the Oval Office. "You don’t have the cards right now… You’re gambling with WWIII," Trump told Zelensky. "It's going to be very hard to do business like this. You've got to be more thankful." A Larry video at Hat Hair,
Fight Breaks Out in Oval Office: Trump/Vance Shut Down Zelensky. Ace,
Wow: Trump and Vance Are Openly Arguing With Zelenskyy, Accusing Him of a Lack of Gratitude Towards America. Althouse,
Trump and Vance get remarkably intense with Zelensky. Also at Hat Hair, Capt. Ed says
'Disrespectful': Zelensky Visit Doesn't Exactly Reset US-Ukraine Relations; UPDATE: Video Added and Beege Welborn at Hat Hair,
Sorry, Y'All - I Need a Cigarette and a Cocktail After Watching That Oval Office Manfest. A Driscoll post at Insty,
FINALLY:
Nick Arama at RedState, WHOA: Fox Reporter's Backstory on Trump-Zelensky Meeting Shows Just How Mad Trump Was. At Twitchy, Here's Trump's Blistering Statement About When Zelenskyy Can Return to the WH After Being Shown the Door. Sundance, President Trump Shuts Door, No Need for Further Conversation With Zelenskyy and President Trump Delivers Impromptu Remarks Departing White House. Matt Vespa at TownHall, How Trump Responded to This Reporter's Question During Zelensky Meeting Is One of His All-Time Greats. "“What if Russia breaks ceasefire? What do you do then?” asked a member of the press pool. “What if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head right now?" replied the president." Matt Vespa, Zelenskyy's Tweet After Disastrous White House Visit Is What You Post When You've Been Totally Defeated Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський@ZelenskyyUa, "We are very grateful to the United States for all the support. I’m thankful to President Trump, Congress for their bipartisan support, and American people. Ukrainians have always appreciated this support, especially during these three years of full-scale invasion." John Sexton at Hat Hair, Bret Baier Interviews Zelensky After Today's White House Disagreement. "Baier's first question was whether he felt he owed an apology to Trump and the American people. On that point, he refused to offer one and instead suggested he was just being honest with a strategic partner. Baier follows up, pressing him on whether he owes Trump an apology. Zelensky, once again, declines to apologize. “I think that we have to be very open and very honest,” he says. “And I’m not sure that we did something bad.”" Jen Van Laar at RedState says OH, BOY: Volodymyr Zelensky Didn't Do Himself Any Favors in Interview With Bret Baier. Matt Margolis at PJM, Well, Zelenskyy’s Interview With Bret Baier Was... Interesting.... At Twitchy, James Woods Just Uttered the Most TERRIFYING Words for Democrats After Zelensky Got the Boot and YAAAS. James Woods @RealJamesWoods, "Not only is America blessed to have President Trump for the next four years, today it was clear Vice-President Vance will be yet another great American leader for eight more years after that. AMERICA IS GREAT AGAIN!" And, ARGLE RAR! Liz Cheney's HISSY-FIT AFTER Trump Shows Disrespectful Zelenskyy the Door Is 1 for the BOOKS.
Stephen Kruiser at PJM, Why, Yes, I Did Vote for This. Thank You Ever So Much for Asking. Dan Surber has his Highlights of the week, "By the way, Donald John Trump is still your president." From the College Fix, 950+ law professors label Trump’s actions a ‘constitutional crisis.’ At Hat Hair John Sexton questions Does Article II of the Constitution Only Apply to Democrats? Matt Whitlock @mattdizwhitlock "For 4 years the office of the President of the United States was controlled by unelected aides and political activists who were hiding an incapacitated president. THAT was a constitutional crisis. Cutting off taxpayer funding of trans surgeries in South America is not." Quote Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT, "We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis. Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security." Althouse, "There is a deep irony here. If there is an operating philosophy driving the Trump White House, it is that of the unitary executive..." "... the idea that the president is the sole and exclusive wielder of a broad and expansive executive power. This includes the power to dismiss federal employees at will as well as the power to resist congressional statutes or judicial decisions that encroach on executive authority.... Trump may be working from an expansive theory of executive power, but in delegating so much of his authority to Musk... he is both undermining that power and demonstrating [Alexander] Hamilton’s real insights about the importance of a singular executive. . . . Writes Jamelle Bouie, in "The Bewildering Irony Behind the Trump-Musk Partnership" (NYT)(free-access link). But Trump himself says "The buck stops here":"
WaPoo reluctantly reports
Eli Lilly says it will spend billions to move drug manufacturing to U.S. soil, "Drugmaker plans to invest in manufacturing sites for pharmaceutical ingredients that largely come from overseas. . . . Trump administration officials heaped praise on Lilly in a gilded auditorium in Washington bedecked with red company banners." OilPrice.com,
Oil Prices Climb as Trump Pledges to Refill Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Gas prices here are under $3 again. Ace,
Green Shoots, For Real: Interest Rates Begin Falling Due to Cuts to Federal Spending, "And falling interest rates should, in time, result in falling inflation.
Good news via Reason." The Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Mention mentions
The Process Of Rescinding The Endangerment Finding Has Begun. At RCW,
Move the UN to Gaza, sounds OK to me! From WaEx,
Trump to make Christmas great again at the Kennedy Center. No issue too small, Althouse finds
"Baseball, which is dying all over the place, should get off its fat, lazy ass, and elect Pete Rose, even though far too late, into the Baseball Hall of Fame!" "
Writes Donald Trump (on Truth Social):" And,
Inciting a peaceful and patriotic riot. "Mmm. First time I'm noticing that the word "riot" is present in "patriotic."On January 6th, 2021, Trump famously said "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." Today, I'm reading:
"Why Aren’t We in the Streets? On Trump the Almighty and his so-far quiescent capital," by Susan Glasser, in The New Yorker."
AMAC explains,
DOGE Isn’t Just About Efficiency. "But “doing good” does not automatically justify the expense to taxpayers." John Sexton has Althouse hosts
3+ hours of Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, which, after some conversation with an AI with a sexy voice, is mostly about DOGE. John Sexton has
Some Highlights from Joe Rogan's Interview with Elon Musk.
The Vigilant Fox @VigilantFox, "
NEW: Elon Musk just revealed that the government handed the Navy $12 billion to build new submarines—and not a single submarine was built. When investigators asked where the money went, Navy officials shrugged and said they had no idea. “There’s a case where I think Senator Collins was telling me about how she gave the Navy $12 billion for more submarines, got no extra submarines, and then held a hearing to say where the $12 billion go. “And they were like, we don’t know. That was it. I mean, basically, stuff is so crazy. Only the federal government could get away with this level of waste,” Musk said." At SAN,
Nonprofit under investigation after DOGE spotlight, millions in waste. Dave Strom is
SHOCKED NOT SHOCKED: Former USAID Officials Testify That Biden Admin Had Policy to Fund Terrorists.
Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "
No, I can’t ever imagine. A Democrat acknowledging he made a mistake, owning up to it, fixing it, and moving on. You are right. I can’t imagine that. In what universe would the standard be zero defects when you’re trying to reform the biggest entity in all of human history even as it operates and as it fights the reforms?" Quote Dan Shafer @DanRShafer "can you imagine if a Democratic president’s biggest donor was in the White House just over a month in saying they accidentally cancelled a program for ebola prevention?…" VodkaPundit at Insty,
TO BE FAIR, SHE’S AN IDIOT:
Ana Mostarac @anammostarac, "
Government employee compares replying to an email to “what I imagine living in North Korea to be like”" At Althouse,
Things that explain a lot. "This image, for example" of Elon Musk, "What I want is to talk about the image. He's green. The little green man from Mars. But more importantly, his head is cut off, the top of his head, and it is cut off by a shape that is not a rectangle. It is angled....And note the angled shadow across his neck." From Da Wire,
House Republicans To Put FEMA Under The ‘Microscope’, "Trump has floated getting rid of FEMA completely."
The recently doxed
DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican "
I've had a change of heart on federal income tax. On the surface, it's just a way for the government to generate revenue—it has to get its funding from somewhere. But I now see that the method of taxation itself fundamentally alters the relationship between the government and its people. When the government relies on taxing individual income, it shifts from serving its citizens to exploiting them as a revenue source. This dynamic creates an inherent friction, where the government no longer answers to the people but to the system that extracts from them. And if you look around, it's clear—whatever our tax dollars are funding, it’s not serving us. This is what modern economists fail to grasp when they dismiss tariffs, sales taxes, or luxury taxes as harmful. The structure of taxation matters, not just the amount collected. The income tax distorts governance itself—and it needs to go." Sarah Hoyt,
Vampires and Mirrors, "People were very upset because the left was being the left. In this specific case, they were — after doxxing her —
bad-review bombing DataRepublican’s husband’s small business. Most people’s reactions — and her own — was “that’s not fair. He didn’t do anything to deserve it.” What is missed in this whole thing is that SHE didn’t do anything to deserve it. Data Republican is not a hacker, breaking into their systems. In fact as they keep saying, all the information she’s discovered has been public for for decades. (What she’s doing is more attaching the index to the volume so we can read it. But she’s not breaking into their systems or causing damage or any of that.) All she’s doing to bring on their hatred and attempts at destroying her and everyone linked to her is bringing to light the things they’ve done for years — decades? — in secret with our tax money and the government power with which they were entrusted."
From the
Wombat's In The Mailbox: 02.28.25: EBL,
Zelensky Conference Turns Into ? Show,
Lindsey Graham: Zelensky has destroyed the relationship between Ukraine and the United States, Twitchy:
Twitter Schools Susan Glasser – Nothing Tops Bill & Monica’s Oval Office Cigar Masterclass,
Trump & Vance Might NOT Be Swayed By Zelensky Doubling Down In Fox Interview, Louder With Crowder,
Leftists are planning an “economic blackout” to tank the Trump economy and here’s how,
Joy Behar slanders Elon Musk as “pro-apartheid,” but an attorney must have gotten to her during the commercial break,
NY Governor blames Trump for NYC’s egg prices skyrocketing, manages to forget why SHE is to blame, and
State Democrats Want To Put Vending Machines Containing Condoms In Kindergarten Schools [Not the Babylon Bee], Vox Popoli:
You Don’t Have the Cards,
Germans Never Learn,
America First Investment Policy, and
The Total Irrelevance of 80’s Conservatism, Stoic Observations:
Trillion Dollar Scale, Dana Loesch:
Trump Hands Zelensky A Presidential Beatdown.
Stephen Kruiser asks
Can We Send DOGE to Deal With the 'Free-Palestine' Brats? "I was obviously kidding about DOGE in the headline. All of President Trump's administration is working on cleaning up the societal garbage that was strewn all about the country by Joe Biden and his "America Last" commie handlers."
At Splice Today, Mark Judge looks at
Jake Tapper’s Calamitous Book Launch. "On X, journalist Mollie Hemingway represented the general response to Tapper: “The mother bleeping AUDACITY of you to do this after running 24-7 interference on behalf of him and mocking and attacking every single person who noticed Biden’s decline. The MOTHER. BUH-LEEP-ING. AUDACITY. Have you no decency? Have you NO shame?” He doesn’t. He also, like most modern journalists, doesn’t have any street smarts. Living in a liberal bubble, Tapper had no clue how the news of Original Sin would be received. Now he and his publisher, Penguin Press, are probably panicking." PJM's Scott Pinkser sees
Warfare at the Washington Post: Journalists in ‘Open Rebellion’ Against Jeff Bezos. He who has the gold, rules. Ace,
Media Whines: The Billionaires We Counted On to Keep Paying Us No Matter How Much Money We Lost are Rebelling! "
A cri du coeur from perpetual cri babies." Capt. Ed has an
Important Warning From the NYT Pronoun Police: MAGA's War on Speech "The editorial board goes on at length to defend the Associated Press over its dispute with the White House, without once mentioning that the AP acts every inch like a Language Police itself:" A Driscoll post at Insty,
NEWSPAPER THAT SOUGHT TO RECAST AMERICA’S FOUNDING FROM 1776 To 1619 SUDDENLY WORRIED ABOUT “
LANGUAGE POLICE:”
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