Showing posts with label Trump and Vance efforts to humiliate Zelenskyy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump and Vance efforts to humiliate Zelenskyy. Show all posts

Saturday, March 1, 2025

A spectacle to horrify the world’: what the papers say about Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelenskyy; The Guardian, February 28, 2025

Guardian staff , The Guardian; A spectacle to horrify the world’: what the papers say about Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelenskyy

"The unprecedented scenes in the Oval Office dominated the front pages on Saturday, with the papers united in their horror. Adjectives including disastrous and vile were used to describe the meeting in which Donald Trump and his vice-president JD Vance openly berated the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy...

The Daily Mail called the meeting “A spectacle to horrify the world” and said that during the “shouting match in the Oval Office” a “raging Trump humiliates Zelensky on live TV”...

The Daily Mirror went for “Shock & War” as its front page headline, with subheads reading “Trump stuns the world with vile rant at Zelensky” and “Ukraine hero forced home without a deal.”...

The Sun declared “Ukraine hero ambushed” above the splash headline “The Fight House”, alongside a picture of Trump wagging his finger at Zelenskyy...

The Independent said “Zelensky ambushed by Trump, calling the meeting a “disastrously bad-tempered summit”."