A quick note:  apologies to SubscribeStar readers; apparently, Saturday’s post, which was scheduled to pop at 6:30 AM EST that morning, never popped!  I posted it manually yesterday.  —TPP

Yours portly is once again playing catch-up, so I’m sharing the full meeting/press conference between President Trump and the little twerp from the Ukraine, President Zelensky:

To be clear, I don’t think Russia is good; their attempted conquest of the Ukraine has been incredibly disruptive to the lives of the Ukrainian people (to put it mildly) and to global order.  But that doesn’t make Ukraine and Zelensky saints, nor does it mean the United States should be getting involved in what is essentially a border conflict between similar peoples in a distant part of the globe.

Zelensky is perhaps the most entitled and disrespectful world leader I’ve ever seen.  He’s jetted around the globe cosplaying as some kind of freedom fighter.  He doesn’t even have the decency or respect to wear a coat and tie when begging us for money.  Even someone looking to get a bank loan to open up a mechanic’s shop changes out of coveralls and into a suit when asking the banker for money.

The meeting seemed to go well enough, albeit with Zelensky constantly insisting that a cease-fire would not be enough and that he needed “security guarantees”; but when he said that the United States would “feel it”—presumably, Russian and/or other unspecified aggression—Trump put the little tinpot dictator into his place.

Let Europe handle Europe in this case.  We shouldn’t be expanding NATO into Eastern Europe.  Putin is no saint, but there are worse alternatives.  It won’t surprise me if the Ukrainians oust Zelensky so they can obtain American support, but the little imp has a way of sticking around, like a rock in one’s shoes.