Kate Wilber

Professor at USC; research on aging; also ranch hand and sometime chicken wrangler

[Petr Němec @SemSuchar]

Leader of the Free World 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦🇳🇿🇦🇺🇯🇵🇰🇷

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

It would’ve been a show of strength for the President of the United States to bring the elected leader of Ukraine to the Oval Office and engage with him in a dignified way.

But you would never know that after President Trump’s shameful display. Putin must be overjoyed with today’s theatrics.

Following the U.S. vote in alignment with Russia at the United Nations this week, a disturbing pattern has emerged that is contrary to America’s longstanding support of democracy around the world.

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous.

Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy.

Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

STOP IT! The mainstream media is now spinning this as a shouting match, when the only two people who were raising their voices were Trump and Vance. Trump totally lost his cool. Never in history have we seen an American president behave like this. Trump is a national disgrace.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Trump and Vance are not selling out Ukraine because of anything Zelenskyy said to them.

Trump and Vance are selling out Ukraine because of things Putin and Musk said to them.

[Truth Matters @politicsusa46]

The President of the United States just made the biggest mistake any president could ever make. He expected fealty and got a leader who stood up and said we are not going to be f*cked over by you.

For all those saying nobody dare stand up to Trump. This is how it’s done. Time for Europe to step up now.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Russian State Media (TASS) was in the meeting.

AP and Reuters were not.

Get it yet?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.

Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

[Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem]

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelensky in the Oval Office today “gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States, however misguided,” @DavidFrum writes: https://t.co/eFvRahgWL3

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelenskyy against Trump and Vance!

[💙Jillian Hurley @JillianMHurley]

When did this happen?

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Decent people thank Ukraine.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

[Kate Wilber @WilberKate2]

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