Harry Litman - Can Ukraine Survive? [View all]
During his 4+ years as President, Donald Trump perpetrated a countless series of regular (or so they became) outrages, along with a few dozen instances of Hall-of-Fame wickedness. But for sheer gut-wrenching, repulsive, run-for-the-exits putrescence, Trump’s Oval Office lambasting of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky feels like perhaps the single most repugnant Trump moment we have ever witnessed.
The tape will be studied by generations of historians for its classic Trump cocktail of vanity, grievance, mendacity, and flat-out surrealism. And it will be lampooned within hours. I’m looking forward to SNL’s Mikey Day playing Zelensky, growing increasingly incredulous at Trump’s nasty patter and little by little letting his bafflement and contempt show.
But as an ambushed Zelensky burst out when Trump tried to bully him by telling him he had “no cards,” “I’m not playing cards. I’m very serious, Mr. President.”
In a fireworks-like 10-minute display of socio- and psycho-pathologies, Trump brought shame on the country and made the world less stable.
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/can-ukraine-survive
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