“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” Robert Orben, Comedy Writer
March 5, 2025, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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It’s embarrassing when your kid turns out to be a brat.
Whatever you did, now everybody can’t stand him. What in the world went wrong?
Luckily Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t our kid. But he is a brat. An obnoxious brat.
“Me, me, me!” “Gimme, gimme!” “We’ve done it all alone,” Zelensky whined in body language and language-language in a high-stakes visit to the Oval Office last week.
And, like a bratty kid, he deliberately showed up in a jogging suit-pseudo military costume, then was surprised when Americans thought he was disrespectful.
Let’s face it. You can’t buy class.
Zelensky mistakenly thought he was negotiating with Joe Biden.
His round table with angry Democrats before his meeting with President Trump set him up to believe that he was holding all the cards.
Like he used to. With Joe.
He thought all he had to do was stamp his foot and he’d get his way. So, he was surprised when Trump said he had had enough, and kicked him out of the White House.
Tongues wagged. “How will Trump fix this?” members of the EU said, licking their lips.
CNN headlines read, “Europeans embrace Zelensky after he was vilified by Trump.”
UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer slapped Zelensky on the back. French President Macron was overcome with emotion and a bad case of the huggies.
“Good job!” they said. “We’ll help you!” they assured.
But they never help.
Posturing and holding ill-concealed hatred for Trump, the arms to which Zelensky fled had actually given Ukraine very little money.
In fact, EU countries spent more money buying gas and oil from Russian President Putin then they sent over to the Ukraine.
And when they did pony up with money, they made it clear to Ukraine that the money was a loan. To be repaid. Not the case with U.S. aid.
It’s proof you can take the comedian out of the comedy club, but you can’t make him a president.
Or smart.
In the end, Zelensky never apologized to Trump. Never thought he had to. And it looked suspiciously like he might actually want the war to continue.
“An agreement to end the war is still very, very far away, and no one has started all these steps yet,” the AP reported, after Zelensky refused to sign the Minerals Agreement with the U.S.
Trump wasn’t amused.
“This guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing. And, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelensky, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the U.S.,” he shot back.
“Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Putin.”
True. Getting brats in line is like trying to herd cats.
Take the Democrats who frowned and sat on their hands at Trump’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress last night. (Take them, please!)
Or the government workers who are insulted they have to come to work.
Or some bratty Americans, like the TV host’s take on Trump’s hard-line tariffs, which was to be upset toys might cost more.
Or that there might be higher prices for a while to right Joe’s Titanic Ship of State.
Contrast this to American citizens who donated their pots, tires and lives to finance World War II, doing without at home to support the troops on the front lines.
The bottom line is Zelensky is an odd duck. A crooked duck.
And instead of peace, it looks like what the man is really interested in, is Money for Nothin’, and the Chicks for Free.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots