MAGA loyalists are
seething as President Donald Trump prepares to welcome Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskiy—and the European leaders he’s brought along for support—to
the White House on Monday.
Trump has had an
extremely contentious relationship with Zelenskiy. He’s berated him to his face
in front of millions in the Oval Office and has constantly dismissed Russian
aggression and Ukrainian requests for more military aid.
Zelenskiy and Co.’s
visit comes just days after Trump’s Alaska summit with Russian President
Vladimir Putin, in which the U.S. leader moved even further away from ceasefire
talks, much to Putin’s delight. But the EU crew accompanying Zelenskiy has
Trump’s base worried that he’ll be “cornered” into making financial concessions
to the European Union he’s promised never to make.
“A big day at the White
House. We have never had so many European Leaders here at one time. A great
honor for America!!!” Trump wrote Monday in a feeble attempt to frame the meeting
positively for his supporters. “Lets see what the results will be??? President
DJT.”
Zelenskiy will be
accompanied by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor
Friedrich Merz, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, U.K. Prime Minister Keir
Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Finnish President Alexander
Stubb.
MAGA was not pleased.
“After little
Volodymir’s meltdown at the last meeting he is back but this time must be
chaperoned by Europe’s regional manager caste,” author Hans Mahncke wrote on
X. “The whole spectacle
is so pathetic and humiliating.”
“Will Zelensky fck this
peace deal up?” MAGA hardliner Gunther Eagleman chimed in.
Trump also tried Sunday
night to assuage his fans’ concerns. “The Fake News will say that it is a big
loss for President Trump to host so many great European Leaders at our
beautiful White House,” he wrote on Truth Social. “Actually, it is a great honor
for America!!! President DJT.”
Secretary of State Marco
Rubio claimed that the EU wasn’t calling in the cavalry to give Zelenskiy much-needed backup but that they were cordially invited.
“They’re not coming here to keep Zelenskiy from getting bullied,”
he told CBS’s Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. “They are coming here
tomorrow because we’ve been working with the Europeans.… We invited them to
come.”
Six of Europe’s most powerful leaders aren’t
coming all the way to D.C. with Zelenskiy just to hang out. It’s clear that
they see Trump’s recent moves toward Putin as a real threat to Ukrainian
sovereignty, and this meeting as a last chance to pull Trump away from Putin’s
anti-NATO, anti-EU, and anti-Ukrainian agenda.
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