Today is Friday, February 28, the last day of February. Today is also the day that the U.S. embarrassed itself bigly in front of the entire world when President Zelenskyy of Ukraine was blindsided in the Oval Office by the snarling, arrogant U.S. president and his Hillbilly sidekick JD Vance as they both ganged up on the former comedian-turned courageous president of a small country now battling Russia for three very long years. Here was the bearded Vance barking at Zelenskyy to show “respect” to this country and, by extension, to the bloated, septuagenarian president. Soon the meeting devolved into a shouting match between Dump, Vance, and Zelenskyy. This was done live on American TV and there had to be a reason for this to have gone the way it did. Maybe Trump was getting his orders from Vladimir Putin? Reaction to this sour meeting was swift on social media platforms. An online article for AlterNet by Alex Henderson entitled ‘I’m beyond disgusted’: Trump and Vance slammed for berating Ukrainian president” provides an immediate response from critics of the two leaders who confronted the Ukrainian president.

One of those critics, Democratic strategist Sawyer Hackett, tweeted on X, “Wow. This is such an embarrassment for the United States. Trump and JD Vance literally switched sides in a war and sided with a murderous dictator. Now they want Zelensky to apologize and kiss their feet. This shit makes me sick.”

Liberal activist and singer/songwriter Bill Madden posted, “Watching Trump and Vance gang up and bully Zelensky, I have never been so disgusted and ashamed to be an American in my life.”

KrassenCast’s Brian Krassenstein tweeted, “This is utterly repulsive! Trump and Vance just tried to humiliate Zelensky live on American TV, smugly demanding gratitude while openly mocking him like playground bullies courting favors. My respect for Zelensky – and my embarrassment as an American – just surged off the charts. I’m beyond disgusted!”

Journalist Noelia Belen Izarza commented, “Trump and Vance just attempted to humiliate Zelensky live on American TV – smugly demanding gratitude while mocking him like playground bullies keeping score.”

Activist Lisa Vandever wrote, “This is so absolutely cringe-inducing, though between Vance, Trump and F/elon, hard to say which one is the worst.”

Democratic activist Michael Foreman posted, “I’m embarrassed by Trump & Vance. I’m embarrassed by any Americans who presume to tell a country’s president – whose country has been devastated by an unprovoked attack with millions of its citizens killed, permanently disabled, displaced or living under hostile rule by its invader – what he and & his country should or should not accept.”

If anyone thinks after this debacle of a meeting that the U.S. president ever had the interests of this country at heart and not the interests of an authoritarian leader of a dictatorship instead, then I have a dozen eggs to sell you for $3.99. Wake up, America: you reelected a puppet of Putin back to the White House, nothing more. And a common thug.

What everyone should admire is not Dump or Vance but the courageous little Ukrainian leader who rebuffed the taunts and lies thrown at him by the two men. Zelensky refuted the nonsense that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that provoked the invasion by Russia. He rejected the ahistorical nonsense that Putin only invaded Ukraine because he sensed former president Joe Biden’s weakness. He reminded those viewing the contentious encounter on U.S. national television that in fact Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and that the war raged for all four years Trump was in office the last time. He pointed out that he sought a diplomatic solution only to have Putin violate the terms of deals that had been struck.

It was not Zelenskyy who showed disrespect today, it was Chump and Vance who showed huge disrespect for an ally who has been invaded by a brutal superpower. People are now saying this day marks a significant shift in this country’s foreign policy. May God have mercy on this benighted nation!

And so it went!