Ukraine’s Zelensky Gets an Education in American Politics, Which Are Supposed To Stop at the Water’s Edge

‘I don’t want to be involved in the election, period,’ he says.

Staff Sergeant Deonte Rowell/U.S. Army via AP
President Zelensky, center, tours the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant at Scranton, Pennsylvania, September 22, 2024. Staff Sergeant Deonte Rowell/U.S. Army via AP

The hastily arranged Trump-Zelensky meeting at Trump Tower last Friday will be unlikely to erase five years of bad blood between the two leaders. Indeed, one day after the tense smiles faded, the Trump team was back at it, trash talking Ukraine’s president. 

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