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Zelenskyy Just Rejected Trump’s Deal—And He Was Right to Do So

I’m going to keep this short and sweet: the current administration’s handling of the Russia-Ukraine war is far worse than anything I could have imagined.

With a few reckless speeches and phone calls, Trump and his team undermined 70 years of U.S.-European relations. After a private call with Putin—Trump came out a megaphone for Putin’s propaganda narrative of the war.

My expectations were already low, but I figured Trump would at least pretend to be tough before staging a fake victory—like he did with Trudeau and Sheinbaum, our allies. Surely, he would be harsher on an adversary than an ally. Instead, here’s what actually happened:

• Trump spends a year claiming he’ll end the war on day one.

• Three weeks after the promised date, he realizes it’s not that simple and phones Putin.

• After one conversation, he seems to buy Putin’s justification for the war and repeats it verbatim.

• Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth then accidentally makes significant concessions on Ukraine’s behalf while on stage in Brussels, ceding much of their leverage.

• Hegseth backtracks the next day after Republicans scold him.

• J.D. Vance makes reckless comments in Munich, forcing Europe into an emergency meeting.

• Trump publicly says Biden and Ukraine are at fault for the war.

• Trump offers Ukraine the most offensive deal possible: The U.S. gets half of its mineral resources, and Ukraine gets no security guarantees.

• Zelenskyy rejects the deal.

Never forget: Ukraine’s security is tied to U.S. security.

This weekend, Zelenskyy warned that if the U.S. pulls out of NATO, Russia will begin to invade Europe. His words weren’t speculation—they were a warning based on Putin’s own statements.

At the very least, the sitting U.S. president should be expected to push back on a Russian authoritarian’s Hitler-esque invasion of a neighbor—but we got the opposite.

In a long, gushing tweet after his phone call with Putin, Trump recalled how Putin even used his favorite motto from the campaign: “COMMON SENSE”. “We both believe very strongly in it,” Trump said, before detailing how they are going to work closely and visit each other's nations from time to time. This isn’t normal. The U.S. President isn’t supposed to be openly welcoming to a Russian dictator but despite Roy Cohn being a mentor to both Trump and McCarthy, this Republican party is far from the Soviet hawks from McCarthyism.

Trump openly used the term “common sense” during every speech. Outside of that, the phrase “common sense” is common. Does this guy seriously not realize that Putin’s team could figure this out with 10 minutes of research—then use it to flatter him? How is this being used to legitimize anything?

Seriously, why does Trump have nicknames for everyone—from Gov. Gavin ‘Newscum’ Newsom (which he loves to deploy during natural disasters in California) to Prime Minister ‘Governor’ Trudeau to DeSantis—but no nickname for Putin?

To make matters worse, our new director of national intelligence—the person in charge of giving the president daily intelligence briefings—tweeted this on the night Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

After Trump’s call with Putin, he parroted Kremlin talking points about the war. On camera, he even blamed Biden:

“And Biden said, ‘No, they should be able to join NATO. Then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep. I could understand their [Russia’s] feelings about that.’”

This argument is nonsense for three reasons:

1. NATO is a purely defensive alliance. It has never invaded or annexed territory.

2. NATO has already been on Russia’s border for 20-plus years. The Baltic states are in NATO, and Russia has never been attacked.

3. Ukraine is a sovereign nation. It has the right to decide its own alliances—Russia doesn’t get a veto.

By repeating Putin’s justification for war, Trump is legitimizing Russia’s strategy: Invade sovereign land, claim it’s for "security," and wait for the West to give up.

China is watching closely. If the U.S. caves, Taiwan could be next.

This is why Zelenskyy refused Trump’s joke of a peace deal—and he was right to do so.

Trump demanded half of Ukraine’s mineral resources while offering nothing in return—no security guarantees, no solutions, just huge demands while locking Zelenskyy out of the negotiations.

Meanwhile, his team made reckless public statements that weakened Ukraine’s position and forced European allies into crisis mode. This wasn’t diplomacy—it was a blatant attempt to appease Putin at Ukraine’s expense. And Zelenskyy knew better than to trust a man who was negotiating behind his back while selling out U.S. interests.

With Trump trying to rewrite the narrative it’s important now more than ever that we hold him accountable. It’s because of you that I’m able to continue pushing back against the propaganda—this community is only getting stronger and stronger. Legacy media is failing us when this is a fight that we need to win.

Thanks to you guys, our pushback is working, and I’ll only keep going. Being fearless and relentless in my coverage when mainstream media around us is collapsing.