Live for a long time, Trump transforms into a "rainbow fart output machine"

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On August 18 local time, US President Trump held a bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House, and then held multi-party meetings with Zelensky and several European leaders.

“The 2025 version of “The Seven Dragons of the Rich” premiered on Monday night.” The European version of “Politico.eu” said on the 19th that unlike the 1960s film about seven warriors protecting small Mexican villages from robbers, the new version of the “Seven Heroes” is played by European Commission President von der Leyen, NATO Secretary General Rutte, British Prime Minister Stamer, Italian Prime Minister Meloni, Finnish President Stub, French President Macron and German Chancellor Merz. They transform into Zelensky’s “European Bodyguards” to help him resist pressure from the United States.

Reported thatUnlike the tense atmosphere when Zelensky visited the White House alone in February this year, there were fewer quarrels and they had a lot of fun talks with each other, but there was more absurdity and drama.

Time magazine commented that Europeans went to Washington to make a pilgrimage to Trump, and the Ukrainian president also updated his fashion choices to meet White House officials’ expectations for visitors. Most importantly, they made Trump feel like he was the most powerful person on the planet, and more importantly, Trump took the bait.

From black combat uniforms to black suits

On the 18th, Trump first held separate talks with Zelensky. andUnlike the White House meeting at the end of February, Zelensky lowered his posture and changed into a black suit this time, which attracted Trump’s praise:“I like this outfit,” Zelensky also responded, “This is the best I have.”

Brian Glenn, an American journalist who criticized Zelensky’s black combat uniform in February, also praised the outfit, calling it “excellent” and “excellent”. Trump also took advantage of the situation and joked, “The person who attacked you last time was him.” This sentence was exchanged for Zelensky’s dry response: “I remember. You were still wearing the same clothes. I changed it, but you didn’t.”

On August 18, local time, US President Trump met with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Source: Getty

ABC reported that the meeting on the 18th was full of a friendly atmosphere, and Zelensky expressed his gratitude to Trump for his “personal efforts” to end the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and both of them smiled. CNN found that Zelensky said “thank you” four times 10 seconds before the opening remark. During the meeting in February, he was criticized by US Vice President Vance for not saying “thank you” to Trump.

Trump transforms into “rainbow fart output machine”

In the subsequent multi-party meeting with European leaders, Trump almost transformed into a “rainbow fart output machine”. politico.eu said he expressed a series of praise to every visiting European leader, although he was particularly friendly and meaningful to some of them.

Trump called Rutt “a great gentleman, a great political leader.” Rutt previously called Trump a “favorite friend” and compared Trump’s role in mediating in international conflicts to “dad” during the NATO summit held in June.

Starmer was described by Trump as a “friend” and he said “people like Starmer very much, you all like him.” But politico.eu “re-shooting” said that this would surprise many British voters because they were quite outspoken to say they were a little disliked by Starmer.

Regarding Macron, Trump commented: “French President Macron has been with me from the beginning. I liked him since day one, and now I like him more. It’s good, it’s unusual.”

Meloney was described by Trump as “serving longer than others” and “encouraging”. politico.eu believes that considering that Italy has 68 governments since World War II, this should be a reverse compliment.

Trump said to Steub, “You look better than you I’ve ever seen.” US media suspect that this statement shows that Trump often hangs out with Stuber and is an excellent golfer.

In Trump’s eyes, Mertz is a “very strong man”, a friend of his, a friend that he “has a great honor to have”. Then, Trump asked Mertz, “Where are you black? I want to be so black.” The report sarcastically wrote: “Now there must be someone who produces ‘Murts’ magic tanning lotion’ in a factory in Stuttgart, Germany.”

As for von der Leyen, Trump praised her for being “maybe stronger than all these people at the negotiating table”, and soon after he poked the balloon he just said, “I don’t know…”

Height difference and some off-topic discussions in the “Family Photo”

“Every time I meet, there must be a family portrait, and this time is unusual, at least partly due to the height difference.” Politico.eu pointed out that Merz is 1.98 meters tall, while Meloni is 1.63 meters tall, and the leaders’ different heights make the entire “family portrait” look like a roller coaster in the early design stage.

The report speculated that Trump must be annoyed by this, because he is 1.9 meters tall and is usually the tallest person in the room, while Rutt and Stub are almost as tall as Trump, while Mertz despises everyone from higher altitudes. Moreover, Macron, who is shorter than Stamer, appears to be only a little shorter than Trump in this photo, which is either an illusion or a masterpiece of inner heightening.

“Family Photo” of the White House Meeting at the United States, Ukraine and Europe. Source: Getty

The fourth weird moment happened when Glenn, an American journalist who questioned Zelensky’s outfit, asked Trump about the mail-in ballots at a press conference discussing a resolution to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Although Trump pointed out that the issue “deviated from the topic” at the first time, it may be because the issue was right up to him. He then spent a few minutes criticizing that “it is impossible to have a true democracy through mail-in ballots” and that “we will do everything possible to get rid of mail-in ballots.”

Then, Trump mentioned some more irrelevant topics. He accused the Democrats of wanting “everyone is trans” and “they like to commit crime.”

“Wait, I have Vladimir online…”

Even more absurdly, politico.eu said that Trump suddenly hung them aside midway through meeting with seven European leaders, interrupting their dinner arrangements and talking to Russian President Putin, giving these European “bodyguards” plenty of time to hang out around the White House in search of emergency cheeseburger supply.

According to Russia Today, Russian Presidential Assistant Yury Ushakov confirmed that Trump spoke with Putin after suspending talks with Zelensky and European leaders, and the call lasted for 40 minutes. Both expressed their willingness to discuss plans to resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine with Zelensky.

German Bild pointed out on the 18th that von der Leyen and Rutt were absent from the meeting when Trump ended his call with Putin and returned to the Oval Office to continue the talks.

Trump later posted on social media that he had called Putin and began to arrange a meeting between Putin and Zelensky, and would then hold a meeting between the leaders of the United States, Russia and Ukraine, which he himself participated.

Trump also said he would cooperate with Russia and Ukraine and would provide a lot of help to Ukraine in the security field. During the media opening session before the closed-door meeting with Zelensky, he said that the United States is willing to provide security to Ukraine, and did not immediately deny the possibility of sending Ukraine to participate in security, but said that the European side should dominate the security of Ukraine. “They are the first line of defense because they are there, but we will also assist them and we will participate.”

The ABC said that Trump’s statement was recognized by almost all European leaders, who emphasized the need to provide security guarantees for Ukraine. Some leaders believe that this should be a “NATO-like Article 5” security guarantee clause, that is, if Ukraine is attacked, the United States will be regarded as an attack on all safeguard countries and take defensive measures.

But the differences remain. The New York Times pointed out that Mertz advocated a ceasefire before further negotiations with Russia, but was moderately rejected by Trump. “The next steps are complicated. Now the road to harder negotiations is clear. We all want to see a ceasefire, and I can’t imagine the next meeting being held without a ceasefire, which is exactly where we should be working on.” Macron also supported Merz’s view and believed that “a ceasefire is a necessary condition for the trilateral talks.”

Trump responded, “It would be great if we could reach a ceasefire,” but “as of now, it has not happened.”

“Which will appear first, the ceasefire or the trilateral talks?” Time magazine predicts that those who give Trump the greatest self-esteem will likely stand out.

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