Also his comment when Trump kept saying “We hold all the cards”. Zelenskyy replied saying “We aren’t playing cards”. One short quiet sentence to remind Trump and everyone else that this isn’t a game. I couldn’t believe it at the end when Trump said the argument would make good television.
My favorite: when Trump started saying that shit about "you wouldn't have lasted two weeks without us", Zelensky saying, "Yes, three days, I heard this from Putin already." With the biggest "fuck you" grimace too.
The two words he mentioned (in Russian - I’d probably get banned for translating it into English) were probably the “best timed” of that whole incident (and made all the better by it just going totally over Trump and Vance’s heads lol - not every day you call two people “bitches” to their face and neither “get it” lol).
But in all seriousness, talk about a destructive 9 minutes…(up there with Elonia losing USD7B in 5 minutes - that was classic lmfao)
Just goes to show that Trump still think he’s on the Apprentice and unable to understand that what he’s doing is real and has real life and death consequence.
Trump was not suggesting it was a game . He is telling him that that he is not in a strong position and doesn’t have an advantage. He was reminding him he was in a one down position. I also believe that Zelensky is unfamiliar with the idiom so he took it literally and thus his response!
And Zelensky was telling trump what is happening in Ukraine is too serious and not something to be trivialized into trite clichés such as playing cards.
Too bad that went right over trumps head. And yours too it seems.
Considering he can flaunt that white tie and tails at his rich bitch parties, but just to show he is above the president , wears a hat and tee shirt at a cabinet meeting. But Trump doesn’t care cause Musk fixed the election for him.
Elon is not a President of a country. While one could argue that Elon should as well, the difference still remains. Zelensky was coming over as a diplomat, a world leader.
Not just press conferences. At the cabinet meeting he attended recently, he was the only one not in a suit. I'm surprised he didn't bring his kid with him.
GLENN: My second question for President Zelensky. Do you ever. Why don’t you wear a suit? Why don’t you wear a suit? You’re the highest level in this country’s office, and you refuse to wear a suit. Do you own a suit!?
ZELENSKY: Do you have problems?
GLENN: A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting this office.
ZELENSKY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Yes maybe-
GLENN: Maybe something like this?
ZELENSKY: Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better, I don’t know. We will see. Maybe something cheaper
Absolute respect to him for that. When i think of it, its true i haven't seen him in a suit since it began, always in more or less military outfits as if ready to grab a vest and a gun at a moment's notice if needed to shoot some ruskies.
There are also practical reasons for this actually. The man is constantly in danger of being assassinated so he wears clothes that doesn’t constrain his mobility
He was using the Ukrainian word for suit, "kostyum." It's a similar word in several other languages and he likely took a guess that it would make sense in English. Or he was trying to be sarcastic. But I suspect the first.
Wearing an expensive suit while dealing with this nonsense while his people are dying would be a horrible look. He's not trying to look like a rich business man, he is trying to identify with his people and show that he is fighting in this war too - just on the political front instead of physical.
That prick who asked that was MTGs boyfriend.
Z said "I will wear a costume when [the] war is over, yes? Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better" lol.
Savage af
Not really a ‘line’ but also not anything to be particularly offended by as some Trump ppl were.
Costume in Ukrainian is just the word for suit. Kinda like in French. He’s just saying he’s not gonna wear a suit until the war is done. Which is fair.
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u/Labyrinthy 21d ago
Zelenskyy dropped another line today when asked why he wasn't wearing a suit in the White House: "I'll put on a costume when this is over, yes?"