Former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC following Ukrainian President Zelensky’s disastrous and insulting behavior during a meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Friday.
Rice made her allegiances clear as she parroted Zelensky’s own negotiation verbiage while openly objecting to a deal that would be better for America.
Susan Rice’s interview on MSNBC is telling for 2 main reasons, both revealed in first minutes in same sentence: “Zelensky was compelled to agree to a horrible deal that would have sent Ukraine’s minerals to the United States” without any concrete security guarantees.” 1/
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 1, 2025
Rice started out chummy, talking about “Vladimir” before correcting herself and calling him by his formal name.
Rice told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace, “Vladimir, I mean, excuse me, Vladimir Zelensky was compelled to agree to a horrible deal that would have set Ukraine’s minerals to the United States without any concrete security guarantees.”
“And yet, because he was trying to improve a relationship with Donald Trump, he came to Washington, he came to the Oval Office, and sat down for a meeting, hat in hand. And soon after he got there, the Vice President of the United States lit into him and started a confrontation.”
“Now, I’ve been in countless Oval Office meetings with heads of state, presidents and vice presidents, as National Security Advisor, as UN ambassador, and in other roles. I can tell you that the vice President or the Secretary of State or anybody else, they don’t jump in, hijack a conversation without the express blessing of the President of the United States.”
“So JD Vance did that deliberately. Donald Trump knew what he was going to do. And I think, as he said at the end, because he can’t help himself, this was a setup for the cameras. It was a play to his base, but above all, it was a play to Vladimir Putin, to show fealty to Vladimir Putin, and to try to humiliate Zelensky.”
Zelensky managed to humilate himself all by himself.
Rice then swooned over Zelensky like a love struck school girl, “But Zelenski didn’t play along with the script because Zelenski’s got dignity and guts, and Zelensky has people that he democratically represents. As a result, he couldn’t sit there in silence as lies were being told about how the war was started, whose responsibility it was, et cetera, et cetera.”
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2/2 So former U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice is objecting to a GREAT deal for America. WOW. And second, her language re “without any concrete security guarantees” sure seems similar to what Zelensky was trying to renegotiate. Here’s clip: https://t.co/jJitAwj6Lc
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 1, 2025
Is she, and possibly others from Obama’s inner circle, advising foreign leaders to spite President Trump?
Should Susan Rice have coached Zelensky against the interests of the US, that is Treason with capital T, my friends.
— Ibrahim Reyes (@Ibrahim_Reyes_) March 1, 2025
