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Zelenskyy gets applause at the Pope's funeral, Trump doesn't [1]
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Date: 2025-04-26
There were many diplomats, presidents, and prime ministers attending the funeral. The rest of the square was filled with the faithful.
The applause happened when Zelenskyy arrived and was shown on the jumbotron monitors.
Zelenskyy, Trump, Macron and Starmer.
CNN's Anderson Cooper, Clarissa Ward, and Christopher Lamb were doing live coverage. The crowd was silent as Donald and Melania arrived. The reporters were stunned 40 seconds later when there was an eruption of applause when Zelenskyy was shown on the monitors, and they made note of the occurrence.
Clarissa: So silent, so orderly, everyone is waiting, any moment now.
Anderson: President Trump, first lady Melania Trump, as well. They were inside the Basilica. Now it looks like they're heading for their seats as well, as the funeral for Pope Francis is about to begin shortly. We're told that world leaders will be seated alphabetically based on French.
Clarrisa: The French spelling, which means probably President Trump will not be sitting near President Zelenskyy as would have been the case if it was English spelling.
Anderson: And there's President Zelenskyy.
Clarrisa: There is President Zelenskyy. Wow!
Christopher: Wow!
Anderson: His image has been shown on a monitor in, and that's why you hear people actually applauding now. They're applauding President Zelenskyy when he appeared on some of the jumbotrons.
The applause was apparently unique to Zelenskyy. There is no mention of it happening for anyone else.
Before the funeral, many leaders appeared to have talked to Trump about Ukraine and Trump met with Zelenskyy in the Basilica.
No one knows yet what was discussed. Good sign or bad? Good sign that other leaders got Trump to talk to Zelenskyy one on one. The last time they met was in the Oval Office staged criticism of Zelenskyy, where Zelenskyy could hardly get a word in edgewise.
Zelenskyy thanked Trump for a "good meeting" on social media.
"We discussed a lot, one on one. Hoping for results on everything we covered. Protecting lives of our people. Full and unconditional ceasefire. Reliable and lasting peace that will prevent another war from breaking out. Very symbolic meeting that has potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results."
On the flight back on Air Force One, Trump posted on Truth Social:
Never expect Trump to write like Zelenskyy. No, he had to attack New York Times reporter Peter Baker first. Of course it's ridiculous for him to talk about Ukraine getting back Crimea. Zelenskyy has been saying all along that that was non-negotiable.
"... and other ridiculous requests..."
Like getting back Donbas and the other illegally annexed areas. Didn't you just talk to Zelenskyy?
Baker is a lightweight reporter because he won't say that Obama gave away Crimea. Baker also had the temerity to write a biography of Obama. And because it didn't criticize Obama like he criticizes Trump, it was fawning, not serious.
"... Obama Crimea Giveaway..."
Only Trump could make it sounded like a two-for-one bargain at Target.
"... and I've had nothing to do with this stupid war, other than early on, when I gave Ukraine Javelin's, and Obama gave them sheets."
Donald, you got your order mixed up. Obama was before you. Are you still mixing up Obama with Biden? You do get easily confused. And I suppose you're talking about Javelin's being shoulder fired missile launchers instead of cars. But, maybe not. You were trying to keep from giving Ukraine any war materials when you were president the first time, and that's what got you impeached, remember? It's because of that, you've given Zelenskyy such a hard time. You blame him for it, instead of yourself.
Finally, after ranting about Peter Baker, and Obama for two-thirds of the post, he finally gets around to saying something about Russia.
"... there no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns..."
Did you miss the fact that this has been happening for the last 3 years? You haven't said anything during that time until just now. Every other time you were just sucking up the Putin. Are we supposed to believe that you've actually stopped thinking that Putin is your friend?
"... it makes me think..."
God, forbid, that that should ever happen. If you actually thought, the smoke would be coming out of your ears from the difficulty.
"... maybe he doesn't want to stop the war, and he's just tapping me along..."
Tapping me along. This is a rarely used phrase that Trump seems to use more than anyone else on the planet. Normally it means you're tapping your fingers on a solid surface while listening to music. Why he uses this instead of "stringing me along" we'll never know.
"... has to be dealt with differently, through 'Banking' or 'Secondary Sanctions?' Too many people are dying!!!"
That question mark came way too late to do any good. At that point it's a statement not a question. Biden already had banking and secondary sanctions in place. Did you remove them without telling anybody?
The entire world has been saying for 3 years that too many people are dying. Is it now a crisis because you have finally realized it?
We can only hope that there will finally be some progress in peace talks. Maybe there will finally be a peace between Zelenskyy and Trump. Strangely, Trump didn't say anything about the mineral deal like he did yesterday. He could have brought the agreement along with him and then Zelenskyy could have signed.
In the meantime, Donald, get some sleep on the way back, you're going to need it. You're walking back into a minefield of legal problems.
211 federal cases against Trump listed on the Just Security Litigation Tracker today.
Just keep ignoring Supreme Court orders and see what happens. We all are waiting to see you fall. It will be a long one when it happens.
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