René van der Gijp has been quite turned off by the popular politician Caroline van der Plas. He thinks it’s ridiculous that she refused to go to Zelensky’s speech on May 4. “Dumb.”
Caroline van der Plas refused to attend the visit of Ukrainian President Zelensky to the House of Representatives on 4 May. “May 4th… 1 day a/y that we remember OUR war victims. 1 day. THAT should be the focus on May 4th! Not Zelensky”, wrote the leader of the BoerBurger Movement.
Critical Caroline
That attitude has given Caroline a lot of criticism and the men of Today Inside also seem to be a bit done with her now. Wilfred Genee in the broadcast from yesterday: “By the way, I saw that Caroline even made it to Russian TV, didn’t she, by being critical of Zelensky.”
René van der Gijp: “If one man was welcome here on May 4, it would be Zelensky.”
Wilfred: “Of course. Also a Jewish past. He has lost loved ones.”
‘stupid mistake’
René: “Yes, come on! Of course that’s true. What I said last time: those Ukrainians are not only fighting for their own peace, but also for our peace.”
Johan: “I think he is always welcome.”
René: “Yes, of course man.”
Wilfred: “’Not the perfect day’, she talked about. Yes, you can still crack a critical note about that.”
René: “It was just a stupid mistake on her part, of course.”
‘Little stupid’
Table guest Albert Verlinde: “And on such a day you also have to radiate unity with each other.”
Johan Derksen: “That’s the danger of Twitter, isn’t it? You wake up with the wrong hat on and then you tweet angrily and then: boom, it explodes!”
René: “But then also explain a bit stupidly twice why you said that. Also not convenient…”