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In the classic western (and in the films by Quentin Tarantino) there is always a scene that plays in a saloon. Someone comes in, we say Lee Marvin, he is a sinister villain, he is brutal, everyone is afraid of him.
In the kitchen he is looking for, a lanky, good -natured man, let’s say James Stewart. And Lee Marvin has a bull whip and two places of spit on the side. He came to humiliate James Stewart. Stewart puts the dish towel away and comes out. After all, they speak the same language.
Some asked why Wolodymyr Selenskyj had no interpreter during his historical visit to the White House. But Selenskyj wanted to speak directly. And it is not clear that it would have been better with translations. Because then Selenskyj could have said even more clearly and aggravated what he had to say. And that was not wanted by the men who received him in the Oval Office.
Donald Trump sat on a cream -colored chair, quite far ahead, ready for jumping. J. D. Vance was leaning back on a cream -colored sofa, next to it, quite slimming, Marco Rubio, the foreign minister. Has Selenskyj guessed, what was imminent? Why was the press, were the cameramen and photographers not sent out of the room as usual?
Donald Trump just wanted to sign a contract
Wolodymyr Selenskyj was an actor, as you know, and is used to stress from cameras. But he had never had to deal with an actor like Donald Trump and the equal J. D. Vance, and he has never been so monstrous in a villain.
The American president initially found warm words of the welcome. But when Selenskyj showed photos of Ukrainian prisoners of war from a folder, Trump’s expression was only bored, then grumpy. He saw emaciated men. He didn’t want to see any emaciated men. He wanted rare earth. “Rare Earths” sounded like a computer game.
Trump wanted to sign a contract. He wanted a peace that he doesn’t have to guarantee. The matter has been going too long for him. And when Selenskyj suspected what the American people (like other peoples) think, and spoke of failed diplomacy after 2014, Trump exploded. “I wasn’t here,” he said about the date. Then he fared in Tiraden over Hunter Biden, the son of Joe, against whom he wanted to collect evidence with the help of Selenskyj. So you were on the phone.
Now Trump got angry because Selenskyj understood well with Joe Biden. He now remembered that Selenskyj had supported Kamala Harris in the election campaign. JD vance demanded gratitude from Selenskyj. He gave Al Pacino’s speech on the cream -colored sofa in “The Pate II”: “You come to my house here and dare to speak to me like that?”
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Trump cooked now that he almost fell off the chair. He kept putting his hands together and apart. This is Trump’s most threatening gesture. Like an expander or a screw clamp. The right index finger showed again and again
in Selenskyjs direction. Then he was broken up to the front.
Once Trump took Selenskyj to the upper arm in the zeal. “You don’t have the cards,” he repeated. “You’re Not in the position.” Rare Earths. Sign the contract. Repay debt. The Poles raise four percent of their gross domestic product for defense. Donald Trump likes the Poles.
“This is good television,” he said at some point in the middle. Then the episode of “The Apprentice” was turned off.