A Clash in the Oval Office—Who Started It?

The hand under the chin is a bit much...

Shameful

how could this monster Zelensky demand security guarantees?? It's almost as if US had guaranteed Ukraine their territorial integrity when Ukraine gave up its nukes, or something. And why doesn't he trust the peace-loving Russia? After all, Russia annexed pieces of Ukraine only three times over the last 11 years.

Several times Z said Trump was repeating Putin.

I only reason that Zelenskyy thinks that Biden was great in Europe is because he, Biden, was sending gobs of cash, and weaponry without much question or requirement for outcome.

The Free Press is a tool of the oligarchy. Fucking disgrace. They are everything they pretend to hate- biased, emotional, anti-facts based propaganda for the elites.

What happened to Batya? Ever since she came out as an influencer shes started looking crazy

Trump greeted Zelensky at the white house door with a snarky comment about his attire. He was immediately rude. I couldn’t disagree more with Batya.

When the orange clown in suit can't share ukraine with his russian lover, he and other clowns in suit gaslight and bully. 😂

Learning the broader context has helped temper my initial reaction, when I felt that Zelensky was being treated rudely. However, I still find Vance's scolding embarrassing: 'You come into the oval office and show disrespect! You need to apologize.' Jesus.

What are Brianna’s credentials? Is he a journalist? Having him alongside someone like Batya, how/why?

If you gave me personally $1 Billion, I might live in a small town that consists of only a gas station in a graveyard. Foreign assistance which I think if you total every single country we give money to together is less than 1% of the budget, should be thought of more as an investment in our own security. It's not a transfer of wealth. It's an investment in the United States security and reputation. And it's completely decoupled from small towns that need to have their roads repaved . That's an economic issue of supply and demand where people want to live and a more complex set of variables. If it great power like the United States can't allocate less than 1% of our annual budget to bringing within our sphere of influence various other countries, then I don't think we were a great power.

Batya is just a Donald apologist. He says false, stupid things, and her support for him is like watching someone cherry pick from the old testament, deciding when to take something literally and when to assert that it's just figurative, and being panglossian in her view of any bad news, for surely it's just some short term medicine that must lead to a greater world. And it's seemingly all with the desperate aim of being a part of that tribe. Clinging to identity and our little tribes at the cost of reality and patriotism has been the biggest disservice to ourselves in this latest age.

zelensky isn't interested in signing the deal and he started the meltdown. he was disrespectful even though he went there to ask for help.

the analysis of that dude with glasses is bad

war should not be the way to bring economics back to america, because once war is over, who else are you going to fight. NAFTA killed american manufacturing jobs. trump is trying to do the right thing with more investment in america etc...

and so what if JD is dressing down zelensky, they have the upper hand. they don't have to make a deal. zelensky is at the end of the line basically. its deal or no deal and its go back home and get slaughtered

Why no response from Batya about the military getting an upgrade and the amount of money donated to Ukraine (in the form of previous generation weaponry)?

You saw Trump purse his lips, he shook his head and he knew what Z was doing.

Zelinsky was confrontational for the full meeting. Trump was extremely gracious of the first 40 minutes and JD was fairly neutral. JD's question was the turning point where it was put on Zelinsky to set a tone for the remainder of the meeting. He could and should have read that things weren't going well and shown gratefulness to the US and changed his tone, instead he doubled down and changed the tone from neutral to combative.

Nazi Ukraine

Buy a history books

I hope Trump is going to hand over Alaska to Russia as soon as possible. Many in the Russian Regime wants it back, and Trump better not provoke Putin. Always remember. When a Dictator wants something, you just have to give it to them.

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Didn’t take long for the Free Press to get hijacked and or coerced to be a right-of-center mouthpiece. There was a lot of potential here.

The only thing ill say is the fact that so many of these deals and negotiations go without being televised. The amount of heat and disputes while negotionting anything is problably much more than we assume since its not televised. This is probably one of thousands that look like this. I am glad the Trump team wanted to have this televised because it shows true character of how people respond to heat and who buckles under the pressure.

More MAGA party line from supposed free thinkers - really interesting!

Bari calls Trump "the only adult in the room". Technically, a senile moron or an FSB asset could still be an adult. So basically, the "free" in The Free Press means freedom from left-wing rhetoric, which I totally get. Not much freedom the MAGA Politburo. So how about "The Half-Free Press"?

I am mostly with Bari. I have impression that Trump stepped in only when the arguments touched on his own concept. I think Vance should learn to be tactful and keep state and business at hand rather than to react on the personal level. I think he is still "hillbilly". On Briana point: what if China decides to test USA commitment to Taiwan? Army cannot utilize future weapon.

The free press has just become propaganda for trump and Putin. Embarrassing

Comments were turned off on the FP website, so I'm adding my really long comment here. Because I am becoming increasingly annoyed with her takes and perspective, I'm going to pick on Batya a bit after this episode. She positions herself as a champion of the working class, but the reality is that she is part of the very elite she critiques. While she has interviewed working-class Americans and rural Trump supporters, that does not make her their spokesperson—especially when she benefits from the same elite media structures she claims to oppose.

I grew up poor and working class. As an adult, my family scraped by on a single income because we couldn’t afford childcare for our four kids. We saved, leaned on middle-class social connections, and clawed our way into the bottom of the middle class over time. I don’t need Batya—or anyone else—to tell me what it means to struggle. I lived it. And my parents and we were the type that would not take government money to help them get by. It is hard.

Batya argues that Trump is fighting for the working class and America by pulling out of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. The idea that Trump is acting “for the American people” assumes that his decisions are rooted in concern for the working class, rather than his own political and personal interests. But when has he ever shown true loyalty to working Americans? His history is full of exploiting labor, cutting taxes for the wealthy, and using populist rhetoric to maintain power. A strategic withdrawal from supporting Ukraine is not about helping struggling American families—it’s about posturing for his base and aligning with his own financial and geopolitical interests.

I’ve had countless conversations with family members who refuse to see Trump’s faults while accusing the left of doing the very things he himself is guilty of. They’ve been pulled into a grievance narrative just as much as ultra-progressives have. And now, Trump is using that same sense of grievance to frame his foreign policy as some grand defense of the American working class, when in reality, abandoning Ukraine does nothing to put food on struggling families’ tables or bring back stable jobs. I could go into how the "Ukraine" dollars have been used here, but that's not difficult to look up. I'll just say, once again, he is misrepresenting the truth.

None of these figures—neither Trump, nor progressive leaders, nor media personalities like Batya—are truly “for” the working class. They are all elites shaping narratives that serve their own interests, keeping people distracted and divided while they maintain control. (Batya, how much have you benefitted from speaking "for" the working class?) I don’t need someone like Batya to speak for me. What we need is for working-class people to have their own voices heard—without an elite filter deciding how our struggles should be packaged and sold. And we need to be clear-eyed about leaders like Trump, who use the language of populism but act only in ways that serve themselves.

And that brings me to the real question: where are the journalists who actually come from the working class? Batya laments that so many journalists come from elite backgrounds, and she’s right—but surely there are voices out there with real lived experience who can weigh in on these issues in all their complexities. Where are the small-town journalists who live and work in working-class communities? Where are the middle-class journalists who, like my family, found entrepreneurial grit, social connections, and government jobs to be the answer to our ailing job situation and finances? If we truly want honest conversations about the working class, let’s amplify those voices-a VARIETY of them, since they are NOT a monolith- instead of letting elites, even well-intentioned ones, dictate the narrative. Otherwise, we just perpetuate the very problem Batya claims to be exposing—one that she has, in fact, become a part of.

often mentioned, yet rarely confronted with the truth, is the idea that 'ukraine gave up nuclear weapons.' Ukraine has never been a nuclear power. As the Soviet Union was dissolving, Russia reclaimed the nuclear warheads they had developed. In exchange for the peaceful transportation of these warheads both the United States and Russia gave monetary compensation. Somehow over the years it's been presented as Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for US protection. No deal like that was struck -because the country of Ukraine never owned any of these weapons.

A great many of us agree, who have also these insight. A few don't want to sight and or hear the truth heard.

Batya, that eyelash rimming the orange one and legi head.

Batya's arguments are the same kind of obfuscation we've heard from the very worst of the anti Israel crowd, absolutely despicable. And the FP has become a cess pool of this Trump Putin apologist shit lately. Bari you used to be better than this. Don't these propagandists have a big enough platform as it is?

Bari's sad evolution to bad faith bothsiderism show's that she cares more about culture war bullshit than she does about things like human lives or the fate of western democracy. Opposing woke absurdity doesn't mean taking sides with a would be dictator allied with the Stalin of the 21st century.

should do an video on why think DNI Gabbard is an Assad toady! although how you managed to stick around after that disastrous rogan interview is mind boggling.

It’s interesting how intelligent people who voted for Trump this time making up with excuses after seeing real behavior

Agree with Batia

Putin is a thug.

What about Elon Musk wore a t-shirt and jeans AND brought his 4 year old into the oval office who told Trump to “shush”????

If you cant acknowledge the plain for everyone to see, truth about Russians having Trump on a tight leash, you are not free. And you are press. You are just members of yet another cult. So you left DEI cult just to join Trump personality cult. Congrats.

Zelensky has stated in the past that "Trump likes strong leaders". Zelensky tried to disrupt the narrative and force Trump to support him by persuading Trump that he was strong. Zelensky probably thought that the American people would continue to support the war, especially since he met with the leading Democrats right before the meeting with Trump. Zelensky refused to sign the mineral agreement 2-3 times before coming to the Whitehouse, which Zelensky demanded. Ukraine is losing badly and never had a chance. He is trying to get U.S. and N.A.T.O. forces in Ukraine because they are about to collapse. He thought challenging Trump would impress him. Wrong.

Stop forcing your voice into a lower scale.

man (pretending to be woman) started talking, at that moment was enough of politics for me. Can’t get advice from physiological confused men.

Batya is genuinely embarrassing, why is someone with such an obvious inability to filter bias involved with the Free Press?

Brianna is spot on, the adult in the room.

If it wasn't for Batya, this video would be nauseating.