OneLegUpAlex Final Note on White House Summit - Progress, Unity and A Trump Joke You Want To Bookmark 8-18-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right. Well, at the end of today there was
no deal reached, but the proper parties were called, and
we might be on our way to an even more
historic moment with a trilateral meeting between Trump, Putin and Zelenski.
But I gotta come in Zelensky. He was very well

(00:20):
behaved today, and why are you talking down to him? Well,
he did kind of act petulant the last time he
was in the White House, and I thought he was
getting beat up on unnecessarily by JD. Vance, who was
nowhere near to be found, by the way, it was
just Trump and him. And then I thought the leaders
of NATO and the European nations that were there, France, Macron, Italy, Maloney, Germany, Finland,

(00:50):
I mean, all these different nations, and of course the
NATO Secretary General, who normally, when we're seeing all them
together at different summits, make fun of Trump. They got
down to business today and they were very serious. So
I got to commend all parties for being united. I
got to commend all parties for being heads down and

(01:18):
just getting to it because we've seen over the years
the international community look at Trump as a joke. We've
seen over the years Zelensky and Trump be intertangled on
phone calls and many other things that have been odd.

(01:43):
But today, for the first time in a Trump presidency
either one, there was this need, the sense of unity
and more importantly, the sense of unity against Vladimir Putin
and Russia. I have not sensed a sense of coming
to to gather a sense of thanking Trump in the
last what nine ten years, But in his second term

(02:11):
he has commanded this and taken the lead and in
not in a talking down, disparaging way this time. But really,
we're going to get this done for you, Vladimir Zelensky.
We are. The sense of hope from today should not
leave us. The sense of unity today should not leave us.

(02:34):
Our allies and the United States are on a united front,
and I think that is beautiful. But I have to
leave you with this today. President Trump did make this
speculation and joke which you might have heard already, if
not here, it.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Is too quickly upon peace, God willing me get peace.
Are you open to holding an election? In your head
at yes, of course we're open for an election. Yes,
we have to do safety circumstances and a little bit
we need to work in the parliament because during the
war you can't have elections, but we can. We can't

(03:15):
do security.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
We need maybe how to say, we need a truth
yes everywhere in the battlefield, in the sky and to
see yeah, to make it possible for people to to
do democratic, open, liberal, liberal elections.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
So you say, during.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
The war you can't have elections.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
So let me just say three and a half years
from now.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
So you mean, if we happen to be in a
war with somebody, no more elections.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
So I wonder what the paws I got a question
for you.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I mean, I don't know, you don't say that, you
don't say that, and I know's gonna be like, what
do you mean you don't say that, You don't say that,
you don't make that joke. Because if three years later,
here we are on August eighteenth, twenty twenty eight, and
we're in a war, we getting pinpoint to this moment
when Zelensky planted a seed. And I've been thinking about

(04:16):
this today because Zelenski did postpone the election. But but
I have to say, because Ukraine's smaller, I can understand

(04:37):
why they would have to cancel an election, But twenty
twenty did happen, and Trump didn't cancel the election then,
so I want to believe that was all a joke.

(05:02):
But just in bookmarking that clip in case things go
chaotic in twenty twenty eight, which we pray not, that's
it for today. A deal was not reached, but progress
was made. And I hope you've enjoyed this coverage of
the Alaska summit, now the White House Summit, and next

(05:26):
the Trilateral summit. How about that