Zelenskyy says Trump is ‘surrounded by disinformation’

https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump-surrounded-disinformation-russia-war/

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  2. Trump wants to play golf and be worshipped. It’s people around him who’ve figured this out and are using this for their own agendas.

  3. No he’s wrong… Trump just refuses to accept the truth

  4. > Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said United States President Donald Trump is **“surrounded by disinformation”** after Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia.

    > **“I wish there was more truth,”** the Ukrainian leader told journalists at a meeting in Kyiv Wednesday morning. **“I hope we can break through that cycle.”**

    > The Ukrainian president also accused the U.S. administration of enabling Russia to emerge from its international isolation. **“It got there because of the invasion of Ukraine. But now I see Russia treated as if it is a victim,”** he said.

    > At a press conference Tuesday night, Trump blamed Ukraine for the war with Russia and argued that Kyiv should hold new elections, in his first public remarks following high-level U.S.-Russia talks in Riyadh earlier that day.

    > Trump claimed that Ukraine “should have never started” the war with Russia. He then accused Zelenskyy of being “grossly incompetent” and claimed his approval rating stands at 4 percent.

    > **“I don’t usually comment on ratings — but after that claim, I checked, and my ranking is 57 percent,”** Zelenskyy said on Wednesday in response to Trump’s remarks. **“We knew about this 4 percent number. This is Russian disinformation going around.”**

    > Zelenskyy cited a study by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology published Wednesday morning that found around 57 percent of Ukrainians trust his leadership, marking an increase of 5 percentage points since December. The poll was carried out between Feb. 4 and 9.

  7. It is unfortunate to acknowledge, but many people forewas this outcome. admiration for Putin now significantly influences official US foreign policy. Alleged US core values such as respect for human rights, territorial integrity, and sovereignty seem to be flushed down the toilet.

  8. I know they want to build bridges if at all possible, but at some point leaders are going to have to start acknowledging this is fully intentional.

  9. It’s mind boggling how lucky Ukraine was to have Zelensky as president during the Russian invasion. Not only did he not run, he pushed for support from every possible angle, kept the war as top news in most Western countries for over a year, and still has the spine to say the truth when faced with the current US administration trying to subdue him.

    And he’s still sane after 3 years of this shit, sane enough to check actual data from an actual institution instead of making it up like DJT or one of his cronies would.

  10. That’s like me shitting my pants and saying I’m surrounded by shit.

  11. If only the American media would acknowledge this one simple, direct and very important point.

  13. In the third Reich, citizens often said “Wenn das der Führer wüsste” “If the Fuhrer only knew of this”. Fact is: Hitler knew of every atrocity and most of the time ordered the worst. So: No, Trump is the core of evil, not a malinformed old man.

  15. american fascists are recognisable by two things: their stupidity and their lack of empathy.

  16. Huh? Trump himself is a walking vessel of disinformation

  17. Now the world knows that the US goes back on its word, propagates lies and betrays alliances.
    Going forward there is no point trusting them.

  18. No one calls him out on his bullshit to his face. The press is sooooo scared of loosing access to his periphery that they just stick their microphones on and switch off their brains.

    The only speech that’s free in America is that approved by the politburo.

  21. I hate that Zelensky is so diplomatically polite.

    I am glad that Zelensky is so diplomatically polite.

  22. Sounds like the Steele dossier might have been true all along eh

  23. Not really…he just likes russia, and above all he admires dictators like putin, Xi and Kim. And with current laws he’s on his way to becoming one.

  26. Blaming Ukraine to not quitting the war against a terrorist state is the most un-American statement in the history of the US presidents. This man is sick.

  27. Just like dealing with any other monarchy, you never insult the king, you always insult the ‘evil advisors’.

  28. lmao no shit. all republicans are in a bubble. they have no clue about anything

  29. Trump is disinformation. His entire universe has been built with lies, deceit, and misinformation. He’s everything that the country bumpkins wanted him to be when they willingly voted him into office. Twice.

    I think it’ll take a couple decades, but once the great war generations keel off and their direct descendants follow we will be in a much better place as far as acceptance and letting others live as they wish.

  30. **”Wenn das der Führer wüsste”** – “If only the Führer knew” a saying from Nazi Germany were people believed that Hitler was just lacking information … or sourrounded by disinformation.

    [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenn_das_der_F%C3%BChrer_w%C3%BCsste](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenn_das_der_F%C3%BChrer_w%C3%BCsste)

    Similar to the russian: “Good Tsar, bad Boyars”
    [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Tsar,_bad_Boyars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Tsar,_bad_Boyars)

  35. If aliens invaded Earth tomorrow, Zelenskyy would be my pick for Humanity’s representative

  36. He’s not surrounded. He’s running towards disinformation. He propagates and attracts disinformation. He’s the source and the destination of all disinformation.

  38. Trump is the leading distributor of ‘disinformation’.

  39. Trump is pretty much the personification of disinformation; the avatar of bullshit made manifest in gross, orange “human” form.

  40. Trump doesn’t care about disinformation. He cares about what HE thinks and what HE wants. That’s it.

    He is an arrogant, pompous, wanna be dictator who’s mad that Ukraine didn’t want to investigate the Biden family years ago.

    He is and will always be fine with destruction, violence, and genocide anywhere in the world where he didn’t get his nepo baby way.

    Ya know, like dictators do.

  42. Trump IS disinformation. It spews out anytime he opens his mouth.

  43. Surrounded? He’s the fucking geyser source of disinformation.

  45. Surrounded by it? He’s one of the chief authors of it!

  46. Trump has always been like this and shouldn’t have been allowed to run in the first place, as a known sex of3nder

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