WTH Extra! About That Trump-Zelensky Meeting… Dany and Marc Discuss
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Partisans believe that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “ambushed” in the Oval Office. The story is rather different. In fact, President Trump was genuinely enthusiastic about signing a minerals deal with Zelensky that would enrich both nations and vest the United States in Ukraine’s future. But Zelensky, acting on poor advice or out of his own stubbornness and exhaustion, used the Oval Office meeting to challenge Trump and Vice President Vance in front of American media, leading to a public spectacle that may permanently damage U.S.-Ukraine relations and Ukrainian security. Is the U.S.-Ukraine relationship salvageable?
Read Marc’s article, Zelensky must mend the breach with Trump — or resign, in the Washington Post here.
Read Dany’s latest commentary on the Trump-Vance-Zelensky meeting here.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. |
| 0:07.0 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.4 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.2 | What is going on? |
| 0:19.6 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:28.6 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:30.3 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome to our podcast, the aptly titled, What the Hell is Going On? Mark, we've got a what the hell extra up. |
| 0:41.5 | And it's extra what the hell. |
| 0:43.1 | Tell us. |
| 0:44.0 | It's an emergency episode of the What the Hell podcast because both of us were watching the Trump Zelensky Oval Office meeting and saying, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:55.5 | That was the disaster. |
| 0:58.3 | An absolute utter disaster. |
| 1:01.2 | And just to put the context in of what are disasters, and by the way, Danny and I, |
| 1:04.9 | usually in these what the hell extras, Danny and I have a piece that we wrote and we just |
| 1:09.0 | read it to you. |
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