OK, seriously: can anyone here give me an unbiased, agenda-free quick rundown on the meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump? My entire social media is on fire from angry shitlibs crying about muh Ukraine, I'm seeing Redditards seething as usual, mainstream news sites are giving me the predictable orange man bad shtick, and Youtube is recommending me right wing grifter channels bragging about how Ukraine has been buckbroken by Trump. I don't know who to trust, and these threads are going fast. What honestly is happening?
I'll to keep this as objective as possible
So context on the run up to the meeting:
Trump proposes a mineral rights deal with Zelensky. Zelensky tells the US he is all for the agreement in theory, but has to get it passed by Parliament, US says ok, meeting ends. Zelensky then goes on Ukrainian News and says he refuses to sign the deal.
(There is a whole lot of uncomfirmed bullshit around this, but that's proven facts)
This gets Trump bigly mad, he mean-tweets about Zelensky, hurling typical Trump insults. French President & British PM both meet with Trump to calm him down, Boris Johnson (and other EU/UK officials) goes to meet with Zelensky to do the same. Zelensky is brought to the understanding that unlike an EU leader, he definitely needs Trump more than Trump needs him. Zelensky agrees negotiate on the mineral deal, and a vastly scaled back version is set to be signed.
The meeting:
So with tensions running high, someone decides to do a Press conference/signing/lunch/dinner, a whole event around the deal likely to try to show the world a united front "See, we are all friend". In the middle of this, VP Vance decides to start asking very pointed questions of Zelensky. Vance was very clearly trying to provoke Zelensky, and Zelensky is getting less and less calm. In response to Vance saying he'd been to Ukraine and Zelensky takes guests on a propaganda tour when they come, Zelensky mutters "fucking bitch" in Russian under his breath.
Shortly after this Zelensky takes the bait, specifically on a question about Ukraine's issues with staffing its military and if Zelensky believes its respectful to (verbally) attack the US Government at this meeting. Zelensky as part of his responses says "First of all, during the war, everybody has problems, even you, you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future."
This sets off Trump who had just been sitting mostly quietly to this point, and tells him "Don't tell us what we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel." Zelensky attempts to explain his statement, but Trump doesn't let him.
Zelensky leaves the whitehouse by himself, gets in motorcade and leaves.
What is happeneing:
Vance doesn't like the fact the US is sending Ukraine lots of weapons and providing cash and loans. He baits Zelensky into making a dumb, poorly worded statement. Trump, who is already pissed at him, calls him out. Trump doesn't think Zelensky is willing to try to make a peace deal, kicks him out of the Whitehouse. We are now waiting to see the responses.
