Zelensky .
Zelensky was obviously deeply irritated by the interpretation of the war
and Zelensky not Putin being the dictator.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy won the presidency in 2019, and he discusses, in this conversation, the ceasefire agreements he made with Vladimir Putin in 2019,
And I think certainly Zelensky
and friends with Zelensky , and friends with Trump, and friends with Biden, and friends with Obama.
As President Zelenskyy said, this was our first of many more meetings.
I believe that Presidents Zelenskyy, Putin, and Trump should meet soon after January 20th this year, and give everything they got to negotiate a ceasefire and security guarantees
And and uh President Zelenskyy, of course, is desperate for those interceptor missiles. Um is there any
and was there when the Trump-Zelensky blowup happened.
And I think that must be for Zelensky a pretty "Alice in Wonderland" situation to be in.
And it's the same thing with Zelensky with the outfit.
the Ukrainian president Volodymyr uh Zelensky , he's um said that um North
campaign which I know President Zelensky also announced a 40-day extension of the campaign just I want to say about
Number two is Ukraine's President Zelensky .
and that will make President Zelensky much more vulnerable, much more desperate at a time when Putin feels like all he
The following is a conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine.
- What did you think of the blowup between Zelensky and Trump as you're sitting there in the dugout?
"Look, we duffed off Zelensky , and, you know, now give us something."
It was only a week after the Trump comments about Zelensky being a dictator
Listen, Zelensky , everybody has their strengths and weaknesses.
in meetings like the one that happened between Zelensky and Trump.
President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has posted a message saying this morning, "Russians brutally struck a busy intersection." He said, "We will
from uh President Trump uh on the stage with Zelenskyy back then, which, you know, as we now know, hadn't been discussed with the manufacturers. Now
This is another of the sort of slightly "Alice in Wonderland" things recently about Zelensky is people are saying, "He's a dictator because he hasn't held elections
On another note, let me say that President Zelenskyy is a truly remarkable person and a historic figure.
You know, like Zelensky already said that he would accept a ceasefire without preconditions.
- Yeah, and it was probably researched because I think Zelensky explained this like three years ago at the beginning of the war
And that, you know, Zelensky could do all of those things, but have the skill of navigating the Trump room.
that Putin was going to invade Ukraine fully, and remove or attempt to remove President Zelensky from power.
someone he's angry with. And and Trump was very angry with Zelenskyy when he refused to open a an investigation into Hunter Biden and
At the end, I make a few comments about my previous conversation with President Zelenskyy for those of you who may be interested.
Ukraine war is in terms of any sort of calculus here? President Zelenskyy said that North Korea's now sending 50,000
And I think that probably also at that moment there was a sort of sense of, you know, Zelensky is being disrespected
I do think there's a dickhead reporter combined with the fact that the, you know, with all due respect, but Zelensky 's English sometimes is not very good.
You know, the Republicans, the right wing in the United States, have a general kind of skepticism of Zelensky ,
- Politics in the United States is so dumb that at the very beginning it could just be reduced to, well, the left went, "Putin bad, Zelensky good, rah rah,"
- Yes, the obvious one, I mean, I don't wanna make it sound like it was all Zelensky 's fault, but I mean the obvious one
And you know, I think the people can be lithe enough to be able to recognize that, you know, you can make criticisms of Zelensky or the Ukrainians,
the the most recent estimate, I think, from uh President Zelensky is that North
It also, the distraction of the Middle East and President Zelensky of Ukraine has just been saying this has made it harder
So, I have a unique opportunity to invade Ukraine, remove Zelensky , and furthermore, I can actually undo the biggest humiliation
All right, so let's turn to Ukraine because another person that Trump is meeting with today is, of course, Zelenskyy.
or that G has to go, or that Putin has to go, or that Zelenskyy has to go.
Now, finally, please allow me to briefly overview some history to give background for several topics that President Zelenskyy references in this conversation.
This is the Lex Fridman Podcast, and now, dear friends, here's the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
I hope to continue talking to many world leaders for two to three hours in this way, including Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, and Xi Jinping.