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But Trump hasn't quite yet ended the Ukraine, Russia war. However, he did something that is actually more difficult, which is that he got Volodymyr Zelensky, who's been wearing his pajamas for the past three years. He got the man to put on a suit, kind of. He. Here is Zelensky addressing this in the Oval Office with the reporter who dressed him down during the last Oval Office visit for showing up in his sweatsuit. President Zelensky, you look fabulous in that suit. I said, yeah, look, you look good. I said the same thing. Yeah, I said one that attacked you last time. See, that was. I remember that. I apologize to you. Look, you look wonderful. No, my first question for you, President Zelensky, in the sense, same suit. You see, I changed you. Maybe yours is much better. That's actually, that's a nice little response there from Zelensky. So the reporter pushes it again. This reporter who last time said, why don't you ever wear a suit? And they get into this sort of shouting match. And this time he says, that's a very nice suit. And Trump, who is a really skilled diplomat Trump comes in there, and in a very New Yorker way, hey, come on, we're all having a little fun roasting each other. He goes. He was like, hey, that one. Look him over. That's the one who attacked you last time. But I said it was a good suit. So he. Trump, you can tell, really doesn't want this Oval Office meeting to go south like it did last time. And Zelensky, rather than being offended and sanctimonious like he was last time, he just dishes it right back at the reporter and says, yeah, but you're wearing the same suit. I changed you. You're wearing the same suit, you cheapskate. You don't even. You probably only have one suit. Anyway. It was a nice. It was a nice little exchange. And it's significant. It's significant. Well, hold on. I'll tell you why this is politically significant in one second. First, though, I just have to. I don't want to be nitpicking too much. It wasn't really a suit in the sense that. Here's a picture of. He's getting off the airplane and it's some kind of weird jacket over. He is wearing a collared shirt this time. So that's an improvement. It's a black collared shirt. There's no necktie. I don't see a necktie in this picture. So, look, we like to encourage the improvement, but I couldn't help but notice when I look at the Ukrainian president that he looks very much like an Italian American going to junior prom. The black on black, the suit, and kind of a weird cut. Some of us who are former Italian Americans who went to junior prom, we did wear neckties, black on black on black. But it was a little. It's an improvement. And you can tell what Zelensky wants to do here is split the baby. And it's okay. It worked out all right. Had Zelensky shown up to the White House again in the sweatsuit, it would have signified that he learned nothing, because Americans actually don't like the. It's not that they don't like that he wears sweatpants. They think that he's artificial. They think that he is putting on a show for everybody, and they think that they're being taken for a ride. Whether those intuitions are true or not, that is an impression that Americans have of Vladimir Zelenskyy. They felt the last time he showed up to the White House, he acted in a way that was entitled and petulant and demanding and disrespectful and not putting on a tie to sit in the Oval Office, not putting on a jacket, even to sit in the Oval Office played into part of that. And so I think it was very smart of Zelenskyy this time to put on at least something that vaguely looked like a suit. Now, the reason that he wears the sweatpants is because he. He wants to portray to the world the image of a besieged leader during wartime who's always ready for battle. And I actually get that in principle, it's not the dumbest idea in the world. I get the PR strategy. It just hasn't always worked out. And sometimes he looks kind of ridiculous when he shows up in Europe with all these different leaders, all of whom are wearing their nice suits and he's there wearing his fatigues. It looks a little discordant, but I get the idea in principle. And so Zelenskyy actually had a tough job here, which is he had to maintain that image. The tough leader besieged. He didn't ask for this war. Russia invaded. He is constantly under threat of bombardment. Putin wants to kill him. And I'm showing respect to the United States. I am not owed money by the United States. The United States has not wronged me in any way. I am not the enemy of Donald Trump. I'm so very grateful for everything you've done, Trump and Vance, and more importantly, American people. Thank you. And I'd love to show you respect. And if you could please just maybe send me a few more missiles and a little bit more money, please. I'd really hit some bullets if you got him. That'd be really nice. So it is significant. And his attitude in this meeting was much, much better. You are beginning to see a softening of the reflexive anti Ukraine attitude that had started to set in about six months ago. Now Trump is speaking in a way that's a little tougher on Ukraine. And we'll get to exactly what happened in this meeting in a moment. But he's getting a little bit tougher on Ukraine. You know, you're seeing a softening even among the GOP base. I'm talking about the hardline GOP base starting to warm up a little bit to supporting Ukraine not as a matter of sweet liberal democracy in Eastern Europe, but as a matter of American empire opposing hostile interests. So what happened in the meeting? According to a Putin advisor, Trump and Putin spoke for 40 minutes on the phone. So Trump meets with Zelensky, Trump meets with the European leaders, and then he just calls up Putin and Trump and Putin speak for 40 minutes on the phone. Mind you, that big Alaska summit on Friday was only 90 minutes. The actual meeting between Trump and Putin on Friday was 90 minutes. He spoke for almost half that time by phone. After this Zelensky meeting, the Friday summit in Alaska, they ended that early. They didn't even stay for lunch. And they had their press conference and it was confusing. And Putin said they had an agreement, and Trump said they didn't have an agreement, but they were kind of nice to each other and they didn't get the things that they set out to get when they walked in there, but they continued the negotiations. And really what yesterday's meeting in the Oval Office was was simply a continuation of the Friday summit. I think what happened in the Friday summit is Trump and Putin found themselves in a place where they got what they actually expected out of that summit. And then it became a question of, okay, we'll propose this, that and the other thing to Zelensky, propose this, that and the other thing to Europe. And they got out of there because they could just hurry this along and move. The fact that this took place at the White House so soon after the Alaska summit, to me, it's all the same summit, and they are working not merely on a ceasefire, but on a peace deal. And some evidence for this is Trump being caught on a hot mic talking to French President Emmanuel Macron, I believe it was, and giving his candid impressions of the Putin meeting. I think he wants to make a deal for me. You understand that as crazy as it sounds. Just sit down. Sit down, everybody. I think we'll let. It's a little hard to hear. He says, I think he wants to do a deal with me, as crazy as that sounds. Now, two things are going on here. One, he's conveying a little bit of surprise. Hey, hey. Why are all the European leaders, and why is Zelensky coming to the White House on such short notice today? Because Putin is more eager for a deal than I thought he was. That's the first thing. So assuming Trump is being totally sincere and totally candid here, he's saying, yeah, I flew to Alaska, we achieved not what we were telling the press that we were demanding to achieve, not what we were signaling to each other to play a game of chicken that we wanted to achieve, but I got what I wanted, and I'm now convinced he actually wants a peace deal. And so we got out of there, and that's why I called you guys in. Crazy as that sounds. Yeah, you didn't expect that. But crazy as it sounds, that's what happened? The second thing that's going on here is Trump is talking like a deal maker. The message he's trying to convey to Macron and to Europe and to Zelenskyy is, hey, guys, don't worry, I got you something that's really good for us. I don't know if it's so good for Vladimir. Yeah, guys, you're not gonna believe it. This is crazy. As it sounds, he's offering us a lot of good stuff. We're just gonna. Who knows? He didn't get into specifics here, but the insinuation could be he only wants us to give him the Donbas region. You know, he only wants us to give him Luhansk and Donetsk. You know, guys, this is pretty good. He's not even gonna demand those other two eastern regions. And he's gonna be okay with Western security guarantees in Ukraine and actually, guys, this is pretty. We better make a deal quickly. This is what it's about. It's clear as day to me. Trump wants a deal quickly. And the reason he wants a deal quickly is when it starts to take a long time to cut a deal, people get cold feet, people get big for their britches, people lose interest and it goes away. So he wants to make this happen fast. That's what this language, this to me, explains a lot of Friday. Okay, Vladimir, you're broadly open to a peace deal. You're not making totally crazy demands. You're open to Western security guarantees. Great, I got what I need. Save your filet mignon. I gotta go back and talk to Macron and Meloni and Keir Starmer and Zelensky, and we're gonna get that done. This is full steam ahead, full steam ahead. And what is the likelihood that we could end this now, 11 year war quickly? Well, what was the likelihood that Zelenskyy was ever gonna take off the sweatsuit and put on a suit? I don't know. I feel pretty good about it now. There's other stuff going on in our nation's capital, namely ice. Agents are mocking the weight and appearance of leftist protesters. It's a charming clip. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I wanna tell you about good Ranchers. Go to goodranchers.com use promo code knowles. I had some friends over for dinner on Sunday, as I do every single week, and as I do many weeks, we cooked delicious good ranchers steaks, the New York strip and the ribeye, and they were magnificent. 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If you were only listening, she's a little overweight. I don't like to make fun of women's appearances. I think that's wrong, actually. I think it's very ungentlemanly. This ICE agent did not feel the same compunction. He turns to her and he says, yeah, and you could eat a salad. So now, hold on. I'm not defending the comment per se. This is not the sort of thing one should say to a woman ever, even if the woman is awful. This is. I'm not defending the comment per se. I am however, defending this general approach to the protesters, let's put it that way, is that diplomatic enough? I can't knock this ICE agent because this approach to the protesters is what every single law enforcement official in D.C. and I think really throughout our country, certainly from the federal government, should be doing. What he is doing here is establishing authority. He is rather reminding this petulant woman of where the authority really lies. Law enforcement is not supposed to be done by committee or by struggle Sessions. Law enforcement does not need to beg and plead and ask the permission of civilians to enforce the law and arrest criminals. That's not how law enforcement works. Okay? The people, all the civilians, have a say in how law enforcement works. That say is at the ballot box. And in November, the people, through their representative, through the Electoral College, also just the people in the popular vote, elected Trump, who was running. It was almost the top issue on mass deportations of illegal aliens. That ICE agent does not have to answer to that woman or to any of the other leftist hecklers. This is the right response from law enforcement. When these people are heckling, when they're trying to impede them, when they're trying to obstruct them, including Democrat elected officials who are trying to obstruct them. The correct answer is shut up. Shut your trap. We don't care what you have to say. Don't care about your opinion. Doesn't matter to me at all. We're gonna go round up all of the illegals, and you can whine and cry about it, but it's gonna go in one ear and out the other because you have no say in this. You have no say in this. You had to say in November. Your side lost. Thank goodness your side lost. And now we have a mandate, not merely from the Constitution, from federal statutes, from the legislature, from the courts. We have a mandate from the people to go enforce the law. And so you can whine and cry, but I just want you to know, just for your own good, shut your trap. You're wasting your ear. Is that too harsh? I don't know. I wouldn't. As I said, I would never make fun of someone's appearance, necessarily. But this attitude, I would love to see this attitude from all of federal law enforcement. This is dad re establishing authority in the home. When the kids get a little bratty, when they get a little out of control and daddy has to come in and say, zip it, knock it off. One more word, you get a timeout. Two more words, you're getting a belt or something. I don't know, I don't know. We don't want to belt the leftist protesters unless they commit crimes, but this is good stuff. We're just gonna do it, and then the people are gonna thank us. And culture is often downstream of politics. Now, speaking of DC again, maybe this is the nitpicky show. Why didn't Zelensky wear a tie? Here's my. I got a little nitpicky in dc. I'm very happy to see that Trump is taking control of the Federal district, as is totally his right, by the Constitution and by the D.C. home Rule Act. And I'm glad to see that they're helping to get some of the homeless off the street. The situation's better than it's been. There's still crazy homeless people, shirtless, running around, muttering to themselves, but it's gotten a lot better. And the crime on the street has apparently improved dramatically. And so that's great. But I'm walking right by the White House. I was in D.C. to emcee an event for the Department of Education that was done in collaboration with Brave Books, Kirk Cameron's company. And it was wonderful. Great deal of fun. I'm walking around by the White House. I look up and I see the Pride Progress flag. You know, the Pride Progress flag? That's the one that's like the terrorist pride flag. It's the one with the black and the brown and the. That one. It's still hanging up in dc. And so, look, I know that the federal officials are. They're busy. They have to arrest illegal aliens and the carjackers and the murderers and the rapists. Whenever you get a minute, could you please tear down all of those banners? Can you please tear them down? I don't wanna look at them. And I don't care if the residents of D.C. wanna look at them. It's not their city. It's my city. That city is different from other cities. Washington, dc. And this is the message of the federal takeover of the Federal District. Washington, D.C. is different from New York and LA and Chicago and Oakland and San Francisco. Washington, D.C. does not belong to the residents. They have a stupid license plate in Washington, D.C. they shouldn't even be allowed to have that. It says taxation without representation. Because the residents of Washington, D.C. don't really have representation in Congress because they're not supposed to, because they don't live in a state. If they want to live in a state, they can go move to a state. There are a lot of states right around dc. There's Maryland, there's Virginia. There's West Virginia. They can go move to one of those if they want. If they want to live in the Federal District, they don't have congressmen there because you can't give the nation's capital to one state. That's the whole reason the Federal District was made in the first place. So it's not. I know there are going to be some squishes and libertarians and whatever who say, well, if the D.C. residents want to have Pride flags on their streets, if D.C. residents want to have BLM square to laud and exalt drug dealers and murderers, that's their right. It's not their right. They don't have any right to that. That's my district. That district is now run by Donald Trump and the Republican Congress. And I think it would be a great sign of who really runs the Federal District to rip down those signs because also they put them up, I guess for Pride Month, it went from Pride Day to Pride Week to Pride Month. It's August. It's August, guys. It's August. We are now fully in Pride quarter. And guess what? There's another Pride Month coming up. Cuz October is LGBT History Month. We are now at Pride third of the year. Get those flags down and burn them, please, if you wouldn't mind. I don't. I'm not demanding you burn them, but that would be a good, that would be a good thing. 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