Summary
French President Emmanuel Macron publicly corrected Donald Trump in the Oval Office after Trump falsely claimed Europe was only “loaning” money to Ukraine.
Macron clarified that Europe provided 60% of Ukraine’s wartime aid as grants and guarantees, not loans. Trump smirked but did not contest the correction.
The exchange came as Trump softened his stance on Russia, including voting against a UN resolution for Russia’s withdrawal from Ukraine.
Let’s try a brutal hipcheck next?
The truth doesn’t matter to Trump, his cabinet nor his supporters. When will the media learn this?
That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be fact-checking him. You won’t sway the faithful, but you can knock some sense into the unaligned.
Fair point. But fact checking isn’t exactly BRUTAL. The language of modern journalism rarely reflects the current state of US politics.
You’re not going to get any argument from me about the scourge of sensationalized headlines.
Media won’t learn when the orange creamsicle is banning good journalist outlets that question the presidents motives, and allowing only puppet outlets.
I guess you missed when they banned AP for using Gulf of Mexico, and added the “new media seat” to the white house press corps?
“Leavitt said that the seat will be shared among an ideologically diverse set of outlets, including Beltway news website Axios and right-wing outlet Breitbart, both of which have been represented for years at the White House without having a permanent briefing seat.”
Most of the journalists working for corporate media will be perfectly fine being puppets. They already are.
Corporate media doesn’t give a shit, this is easy soundbites for them.
Literally the most polite possible interaction by Macron.
Outrage farming media - “BRUTAL FACT CHECK”
Sadly it’s more than most people have done, and that’s including the media.
Not only Trump’s argument was bullshit, it also shows to the world that he is incapable of understanding the concept of doing the right thing if it doesn’t profit him in some way. The man is completely devoid of compassion and does not understand the struggles of anyone who isn’t in his position as a billionaire.
To him, the only struggle that matters is the “struggle” of billionaires like him who might have to give some money back to the society that made their fortune and to reduce human suffering. When you hear him talk, you can clearly tell that in his mind, paying taxes is the worst atrocity to ever exist and no sacrifice is too big to remedy that. He will happily feed an entire country into the clutches of a brutal autocracy and destroy an entire government that people depend on to not starve to death just so he and other billionaires like him can pay lower taxes.
Stop voting for rich people. They are completely disconnected from reality and clearly mentally ill.
What so calling lies out is brutal now? The fuck did we come to this? Macron did what any reasonable person should do; touch his leg like “oh, you poor stupid thing” and Trump didnt shatter. He hobbled and agreed like the idiot old man he is.
It won’t matter to all of the people who have doubled down on Trump
I mean yes, but it does matter to me. I want to see more gov’t authorities call him on his shit
Yes, but we can’t expect to argue fascists out of fascism, whether they’re leaders or followers.
Trump smirked as he was called out in real time and shook his hand to suggest the 60 percent figure was not precise. He then appeared to mouth “OK” and smirked as his French counterpart continued his fact-check.
Fascists will just smirk at your attachment to reason and truth, while loading their guns. Fascism has to be fought in other ways.
and I agree with that. If the French president pistol whipped him and finished the job I would’ve had even greater things to say, however, as someone without any amount of power comparable to that level of government, I’ll take what I can get.
I wish I could upvote this single statement more!!
It’s important that the few remaining civilized world leaders be seen to be unintimidated by Trump and Putin. It helps to break through his facade of being an invincible bully.
brutally fact checks
This administration is going to kill so many people and liberals are just going to wag their fingers
“Man does thing everyone should have been doing to every idiot in power for decades.”
brutally
lmfao watch the video
Weird way to call our president a moron
Oh yeah. So brutal. Brutally touching each other. Touch me more brutally Donny
Ngl, I’d like to see just a tiny bit more brutality in the next face check. Macron was downright civil.
Maybe next time he can brutally curb check trump?
The Irish would like to show him how we kiss.
And he would look lovely in a Columbian necktie.
How long until Trump goes on TruthSocial to bitch about it and talk smack about Macron?
Macron is a smooth operator isn’t he?
Not according to his poll numbers
Indeed, Macron shut the Orange shit stain down.
