
Bill Maher Slams Trump For 'Deplorable' Zelenskyy Meeting: 'Great Day To Be An American'
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President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated the Ukrainian leader at a meeting Friday intended to bring Russia's invasion closer to an end.
Bill Maher was visibly outraged Friday after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was berated at the White House by President Donald Trump for asking that a proposed peace deal between Ukraine and Russia come with U.S.-backed assurances Russia won’t violate it.
“Great day to be an American,” Maher dejectedly joked on HBO’s “Real Time.”
“My first thought is he’s having this big browbeating with a guy who speaks English as a second language,” he continued, adding, “So we’re all agreed this is deplorable. I’ve tried not to use the word deplorable as much as I can, but when it’s deplorable, it’s deplorable.”
World leaders, political pundits and the American people on social media certainly agreed, as Friday’s Oval Office blowout between Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Zelenskyy lacked any semblance of decorum they might hope for the highest U.S. office to aspire to.
Zelenskyy was set to sign an agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine regarding an exchange of his nation’s rare minerals for U.S. protection against Russia but appeared to be booted from the premises after Trump and Vance felt disrespected.