A caller on “The Breakfast Club” confronted the show hosts Monday for providing limited context on how President Donald Trump’s White House clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy unfolded on Friday.
During the show’s “Front Page News” segment on Monday, “The Breakfast Club” focused on the heated exchange between the two leaders, neglecting to mention that Trump started the meeting off cordially and omitting details of what led to the clash. The caller, during the show’s “Get It Off Your Chest” segment, called out “The Breakfast Club” for not including how Zelenskyy’s remarks may have contributed to the spat.
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“It’s 45 minutes worth of conversation, and actually Trump was very nice and very quiet for a lot of the time until Zelenskyy threatened us and said, we ain’t going to feel it now, but you’ll feel it later ’cause we got this big, beautiful ocean that’s protecting us,” the caller said. “And then that’s when Trump went off. So, I just want y’all to — I love y’all … people can have the right to agree and disagree on everything, but if you’re going to give the news, give the whole story and not just — and I know we don’t have necessarily time for it, but we always focus in on the negative and it’s always like an attack.”
Trump had suggested during the meeting that the U.S. should not be providing more aid to Ukraine than European nations, given that America is separated from the continent by an ocean.
“During the war, everybody has problems. Even you. But you have nice ocean and don’t feel now but, you will feel it in the future,” Zelenskyy said during the exchange, prompting Trump to push back and criticize the Ukrainian president for “dictat[ing] what we’re going to feel.”
The caller further appeared to suggest that the attacks on Trump over the meeting are anti-American.
“It’s like, stand up for America because this is where we are. If people don’t love America as a country and as where they were born and where their roots are, people can leave,” the caller continued. “I don’t want that. Nobody wants that. But it’s like, let’s stand for America.”
Host Charlamagne Tha God asked if the caller believes that the meeting hurt America’s reputation with its allies. “Could you trust America at this point?” he queried.
“Would I trust America for walking us into a war that they couldn’t win? That is horrible,” the caller retorted. “People’s lives are being lost, and it’s like, that’s more important than anything. Than land. You can’t replace lives, and people are going in on him for wanting people to stop being killed.”
Charlamagne disagreed with her, saying everyone wants to end the war.
Following the contentious end to the meeting, the scheduled joint press conference between Trump and Zelenskyy was canceled. The White House told the Daily Caller that Trump requested that Zelenskyy depart the White House without signing the two nations’ finalized deal for mineral extraction in Ukraine.
Trump asserted in a Truth Social post that Zelenskyy “is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.”
“I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office,” the president continued. “He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”
Following the meeting, even Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a historically staunch defender of Ukraine, scrutinized Zelenskyy for his conduct.
“Most Americans, after what they saw today, would not want Zelenskyy to be their business partner, including me and I’ve been to Ukraine nine times since the war started,” Graham said.
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