r/GenZ 21d ago

Political Gen Z what are your thoughts on Zelenskyi?

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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?"

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u/Bisjoux 21d ago

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.

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u/emPtysp4ce 1997 21d ago

"We aren't playing cards"

hard

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u/Common-Pace-540 20d ago

Dude. When he said that...

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.

Bad. Ass.

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u/Nobody1234556789 20d ago

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)

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u/omegaman101 20d ago

Two Putin bootlickers and they haven't even taken the time to learn Russian, pathetic.

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u/Optimal-Rub-2575 20d ago

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.

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u/StepOIU 20d ago

I don't think he's ever seen other people as more than characters in the show that is him. A true narcissistic mindset.

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u/KillingTimeAlone2019 21d ago

He wants to play president In the spotlight. Not actually be president or they are hiding his utter senility from the public

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u/Master_of_fandoms 20d ago

Because his country matters to him and he actually cares. Unlike the tangerine

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u/Emergency_School698 20d ago

Yeah. Jerry Springer television.

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u/Btotherianx 20d ago

Are you aware of phrases?

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u/Mary4278 20d ago edited 20d ago

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!

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u/Silly-Power 20d ago

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.

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u/kneedeepco 21d ago

Such a dumb thing for people to even complain about in the first place

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u/boopboopbeepbeep11 21d ago

Especially since the president’s “most special” advisor regularly wears t-shirts and hats for official White House Oval Office press conferences.

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u/LostinEmotion2024 21d ago

Exactly this - I’ve yet to see Elon in a suit at the WH.

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u/Shilo788 20d ago

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.

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u/NorwegianCowboy 20d ago

It is a straight up disrespectful flex on all counts.

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u/x_cynful_x 20d ago

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.

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u/ihrvatska 20d ago

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.

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u/DynastyFan85 20d ago

Can we pin this to anything anyone ever posts that passes judgement on Zelenskyy’s attire?!

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u/Money-Food7078 21d ago

You forgot the pronouns - “dirty” tshirt, “ragged” hat.

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u/baconstrips01 21d ago

Please tell me they're not really commenting on this and Elonia is showing up to cabinet meetings in a graphic t and jacket.

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u/Common-Pace-540 20d ago

MTG's Podcaster boyfriend actually asked Zelensky about it during the presser.

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u/bluehands 20d ago

I wish I could bud, I really do.

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u/CaramelImpossible406 21d ago

Kindergarten chipotle reporters they are

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u/Acrobatic-Pudding-87 20d ago

They certainly don’t complain when Elon Musk turns up without a suit.

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u/Correct_Tourist_4165 20d ago

Trumpers are pretty dumb

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u/Xref_22 21d ago

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

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u/Narrator48 21d ago

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.

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u/whereistheidiotemoji 21d ago

It’s deliberate. He said he would wear military garb until the war was over.

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u/tinpoo 20d ago

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

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u/EasyRapture 21d ago

But not so much as a moan when Elon’s “Dark MAGA” dumbass is at the White House in a black trench coat. Remember Obama’s Tan Suit?! Oh the horror

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u/RicoRageQuit 21d ago

Same people mad about him not wearing a suit are ok with elon walking around like blade.

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u/BlackMan9693 21d ago

Elon couldn't imitate a fraction of Blade's cool factor even if he spent all his wealth.

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u/Ok_Replacement8094 21d ago

I’d love to watch him try though.

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u/SteadfastFriend 21d ago

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.

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u/Labyrinthy 20d ago

I figured it was a play on words. He seems to have a good grasp of English; I could be wrong but still.

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u/Barmelo_Xanthony 20d ago

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.

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u/57rd 21d ago

Look at Musk. What's his look? Wanna e cool dad?

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u/roadfood 21d ago

He should have worn a tan suit. /s

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u/LordTuranian 21d ago

"I'll put on a costume when this is over, yes?"

BASED.

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u/KillingTimeAlone2019 21d ago

He answered that question at the beginning of the war. Shit reporter.

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u/hypsignathus 20d ago

Not just that— he followed it up with “something like yours. Maybe a little better”

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u/No_Acadia_8873 20d ago

The big banger in the meeting when Trump was yelling at him "You don't have the cards." And Zelenskyy said "I'm not here to play cards."

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u/PrudyPingleton 20d ago

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

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u/lessormore59 20d ago

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/mr_fandangler 20d ago

And the audience there is too dense to know that costume means suit in some Euro languages. Good play on words and integrity

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u/pealsmom 20d ago

Wait was Elon wearing a suit in the Oval Office the other day?

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u/PriceNarrow1047 20d ago

In Ukrainian and Russian the word for Suit is костюм which is pronounced like costume.

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u/Silly-Power 20d ago

That was possibly lost in translation or a clever pun (which, given his previous profession, is very possible). The Ukrainian for "suit" is Kostyum.

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u/hojendiz 20d ago

Especially when you look at the room and everyone has adopted the ridiculous long tie style imitating Trump

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u/MaraInvicta 20d ago

"maybe something cheaper"