Repost by Permission: European Leaders Stunned After Trump Rejects “Modestly Successful Comedian”

May 20, 2025

European Leaders Stunned After Trump Rejects “Modestly Successful Comedian”

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

An informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin described his two-hour phone call with President Donald Trump yesterday as “substantive and quite candid”, says top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov then assessed: “Trump’s position is neutral and he does deal with settlement issues, while the position of European politicians is openly pro-Ukrainian”.

After his call with President Putin, this report notes, President Tump posted the announcement:

Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.  I believe it went very well.

Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War.

The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of.

The tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent.  If it wasn’t, I would say so now, rather than later.

Russia wants to do largescale TRADE with the United States when this catastrophic “bloodbath” is over, and I agree.

There is a tremendous opportunity for Russia to create massive amounts of jobs and wealth. Its potential is UNLIMITED.

Likewise, Ukraine can be a great beneficiary on Trade, in the process of rebuilding its Country.

Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately.

I have so informed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, President Emmanuel Macron, of France, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of Italy, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, of Germany, and President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, during a call with me, immediately after the call with President Putin.

The Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations.

Let the process begin!

Following his announcement, this report continues, President Trump told reporters: “I think something’s going to happen…And if it doesn’t, I just back away and they’re going to have to keep going…This is not our war…This is not my war…I mean, we got ourselves entangled in something that we shouldn’t have been involved in…And we would have been a lot better off – and maybe the whole thing would have been better off – because it can’t be much worse…It’s a real mess…We don’t have boots on the ground, we wouldn’t have boots on the ground…But we do have a big stake…The financial amount that was put up is just crazy…Again, this was a European situation…It should have remained a European situation…But we got involved – much more than Europe did – because the past administration felt very strongly that we should…We gave massive amounts, I think record-setting amounts, both weaponry and money”.

Along with Ukrainian Dictator Vladimir Zelensky ordering the creation of a permanent expanded national negotiating group to come up with peace terms in response to the announcement made by President Trump, this report details, top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed: “The Kremlin has not set a deadline for drafting a memorandum with Ukraine outlining steps toward a peace treaty…Everyone understandably wants this to be done as quickly as possible, but certainly, the devil is in the details”.

Also in response to the announcement made by President Trump, this report notes, the Financial Times revealed: “European leaders backing Ukraine were reportedly stunned by President Donald Trump’s refusal to support their efforts to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin, following a phone call between the two leaders”—and Axios revealed that after Finland President Alexander Stubb asked what the next steps were yesterday, President Trump told him: “I don’t know…Someone has to come out and say whether the negotiations are going well or badly, and then we’ll decide what to do”.

As to why European leaders are stunned, this report concludes, defies logic, specifically because President Trump posted the warning to them three months ago on 19 February: “Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle…This War is far more important to Europe than it is to us — We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation…On top of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent him is “MISSING”…He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden “like a fiddle”…A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left”.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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