Trump v. Zelensky cage match: Whaaaat?
theAspenbeat.com,
by
Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
3/1/2025 2:54:09 PM
The White House event “Trump and Zelensky Meeting Staged for Media” somehow turned into “Trump v. Zelensky Cage Match.”
How did that happen? My theory is that it wasn’t exactly an accident, but it didn’t play out the way either side intended.
Bear in mind that both leaders are experienced actors – Trump as a reality TV host and Zelensky as a stand-up comedian. (Yes, Trump really was a reality TV host!) Both saw the meeting as a stage. They intended to communicate not with one another – that could have been done better in private – but with millions of viewers.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/1/2025 2:59:48 PM (No. 1906460)
Zelensky wasn't prepared for a meeting with an American Administration and foreign policy team that didn't greet him bending over with their pants around their ankles.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/1/2025 3:47:37 PM (No. 1906484)
I would think that the military industrial complex applauded the shouting match. In their minds, Z's failure to handle the meeting properly was key and that this war will not end any time soon in his mind, he hates Putie with a passion, and there will still be billions of dollars yet to be made by the mic.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Sully 3/1/2025 3:50:47 PM (No. 1906485)
Cage match? More like a Ukranian tourist locked himself in a tiger cage.
Also Zelinski wasnt invited to haggle. He was supposed to sign on the dotted line period. All the details were finalized by HIS people prior to his flight.
This is the second time he does this as we sent someone over there to sign a deal that was all arranged a few week's ago. Only to be rebuffed and bewildered and come home with nothing.
I believe Zelinski will never settle bc it will mean he spent those lives for nothing. Plus he will never show his receipts for the US aid.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
NYbob 3/1/2025 3:55:17 PM (No. 1906487)
#2, you are right about the milplex liking endless proxy wars, but where will Ukraine get the money? They have spent or dispersed much of what we gave them. Is Europe ready to ship Billions, they don't even fund their own military. The stupid punk had the only deal he was going to get. More US involvement and money, but ending a war and either giving up territory where they harassed the Russian-speaking population, or seeing that territory turned into a DMZ zone. He thinks he can reject that. We will see how that goes.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/1/2025 4:14:21 PM (No. 1906493)
Glenn must bre getting his news from CNN. This was not to be a negotiation. Z had already said he would sign the rare earth minerals agreement. He was coming to Oval Office to sign that agreement which he said he was authorized to sign. Trump had specified that Ukraine needed to provide security for the billions of dollars the US had already given Ukraine. That is why the signing was made a public event. Z came in and tried to change the meeting. It is clear that he decided we were the ones whom he expected to pfrovide "security" to Ukraine. Actual on the ground securuty. He also may have foolishly thought that he could "gotcha" the American President into something he wanted if it was being done on live TV. No cage match. Z just tried to move the goalpost. Didn't work.
The mention of The Apdprentice and Trump's being an actor is ,ore CNN stuff. He played himself. Always has. Still does.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/1/2025 4:22:03 PM (No. 1906496)
From the not-so-far-back machine:
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Thursday during an interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business that the United States and Ukraine have struck a deal on strategic minerals as well as oil and gas amid peace talks for ending the war with Russia.
Bessent not only revealed that the “deal is done” but that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky will be coming to the White House to sign it.
“I went to Kiev two weeks ago and met with President Zelensky. Since then, we have struck a deal. Their governing council approved the deal last night, so I have an agreement from their economics minister, so the deal is done,” said Bessent.
The treasury secretary added that Zelensky would be coming to sign the deal “tomorrow.”
“President Zelensky is coming here to sign the deal tomorrow. There is no more negotiation,” he added
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/27/treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-usa-ukraine-minerals-deal-done/
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/1/2025 4:24:07 PM (No. 1906498)
Reality is about to place a far harsher slamdown on Zelensky than Trump/Vance did. Zelensky may not like it but he is OUT OF OPTIONS. He is slowly losing this war and reaching a point where he no longer has enough lives to spend. Putin is losing also, but has more to burn than Zelensky. Further, Trump is NOT going to support this was and Europe cannot. Trump created an exit ramp for Ukraine where they would lose a bit but get peace.
Zelensky just jerked on Trump's cape. Per Jim Croce: You don't tug on Superman's cape. Zelensky is now twisting in the wind. If I were Trump, the only deal I would back is one in which Zelensky resigns because he will sabotage any peace efforts. And by ALL MEANS, NO AMERICAN TROOPS IN UKRAINE, EVER!!! In fact, the faster Trump cuts any ties with Ukraine, the better. Ukraine is now a loser's deal for America.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Califedup 3/1/2025 4:25:16 PM (No. 1906500)
Just wondering. Could the Zelenskyy led Ukrainians in concert with the Obama led communist death democrats who have been stealing vast sums of the hundreds of billions in aid we gave to Ukraine been behind the assassination attempts of President Trump because they knew he would either stop the war or any further aid to Ukraine if elected? Sounds very plausible and I fear they will make more assassination attempts against President Trump. Just wondering.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Namma 3/1/2025 5:41:30 PM (No. 1906529)
CNN is nuts. PRESIDENT Trump was not acting. He was sincere and his love for America and his fellow citizens was showing. Zelensky was trying to be tough and trying to take control of the meeting. He failed. He should book a flight for home. Then get on that dang plane. He is- a disgrace to himself and his country. He should just go home. And stay there
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Citoyen 3/1/2025 7:26:02 PM (No. 1906559)
Unlike most here I don't despise Zelensky. He is the leader of a corrupt country that was invaded by Russia, run by a truly evil man. Zelensky could have taken his millions and fled the country. Instead he inspired the Ukrainians to fight. I'm surprised, though, that he didn't seem able to "read the room." Maybe he was too used to dealing with the handlers who ran the country for senile Joe Biden.
Trump was mostly right when he declared that Zelensky doesn't have the cards to play a winning game with Russia, let alone with the United States. The one card that he does have to play is that President Trump promised to end the war "in 24 hours". If the war continues our president will quickly find that the good will he has enjoyed since the inauguration will be diminished. I hope that Zelensky swallows his pride and realizes that all is lost if he doesn't work with Trump the way Trump wants to be worked with.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
coyote 3/1/2025 7:43:41 PM (No. 1906569)
I think land was given up for peace back in 1938 too. How did that work out. Well, I'm not saying don't do it, I say make sure Ukraine gets that peace they deal for.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mamabear 3/1/2025 8:02:22 PM (No. 1906573)
Z received advice from a bi-partisan group of American political leaders and perhaps also a group of former Obama employees. Anyone care to guess if they ALL told him to work with Trump?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/zelenskyy-meets-bipartisan-group-senators-ahead-tense-white/story?id=119305439
https://gellerreport.com/2025/03/obamas-team-including-victoria-nuland-susan-rice-alexander-vindman-told-zelensky-to-reject-trump-deal-in-violation-of-logan-act.html/
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 3/1/2025 11:50:58 PM (No. 1906653)
Personally I'm glad the deal fell through. The "trillions of dollars of "Rare Earth Minerals" in Ukraine" is a pipe-dream at best, and more likely an outright scam.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Lucky5 3/2/2025 10:31:29 PM (No. 1907297)
I do not like or agree with this article by Glenn.
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