Trump earlier claimed that Zelenskyy had approval ratings of just 4%, even though an opinion poll released Wednesday by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showed that 57% of Ukrainians trust him.

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    This is incredible and unprecedented. Trumps is basically saying to the world “If you’re a friend of the US, the US doesn’t have any qualm betraying you, so don’t befriend us if you’re smart.”

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      “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests” - Henry Kissinger

      Certainly no unprecedented.

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        What’s unprecedented is saying it out loud. Previous presidents pretended the country had firm friendships with other nations. Trump does away with the pretense. No other president has ever done that - possibly because no other president was this dumb.

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          Didn’t Nixon sabotage Johnson’s Vietnam peace talks and illegally try to gain a personal advantage through watergate? That sounds very against America and for himself.

          Honestly I think Americans are wearing rose tinted beer goggles.