While liberals continue to clutch their pearls over the White House meeting between Zelensky, Trump and Vance, CNN’s Scott Jennings suggests that it was a massive failure for Zelensky which should have been very easy.
During an appearance on the Laura Coates show on CNN, Jennings said that all Zelensky had to do was be polite, grateful and pleasant. He says that this was a test and that Zelensky failed it. Jennings said:
“All he had to do was walk in and say, thank you. I’m really grateful to be here. We want to be partners with the United States. We’re grateful for your leadership. Where’s the papers and what are we having for lunch? That’s all he had to do.”
This is the exactly correct take, and the sort of reasoned analysis for which Jennings has become known.
Watch the clip below:
“All he had to do was walk in and say, thank you. I’m really grateful to be here. We want to be partners with the United States. We’re grateful for your leadership. Where’s the papers and what are we having for lunch? That’s all he had to do.”
Scott Jennings is always right. pic.twitter.com/nXqabMMXme
— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) March 1, 2025
John Nolte of Breitbart News made a similar point:
Zelensky Threw His Country Under the Bus to Audition for MSNBC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Oval Office appearance was, without question, the biggest public self-immolation by a country’s leader in world history.
First, Zelensky arrives at the White House dressed like a tiny Ninja. Then, in front of the American media in the Oval Office with President Trump and Vice President Vance sitting right there, he challenges Vance to explain how diplomacy would be possible today when when American diplomacy failed under former President Obama in 2014.
“What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?” the Tiny Ninja sarcastically asked like a wiseass. “What do you mean?”
My mouth literally swung open. First off, when you are in a public forum, you do not address the Vice President by his first name, especially after you show up without a tie. Secondly, you don’t disrespect the President and Vice President with your stupid talking points.
Zelensky really blew it. He has vastly overestimated the patience and charity of the American people.
