What Average Americans Think of Trump’s Showdown with Zelensky

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky face off in the Oval Office on February 28, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Most ordinary voters weren’t horrified by the president’s treatment of an ally. In fact, they agreed with it.
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We’ll all probably remember where we were when we watched the video of President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance dressing down Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday. It’s all anyone’s talking about. Yet like so many other big events in recent memory, the episode has polarized viewers. And like so many other events, the media narrative is all but entirely divorced from what the majority of Americans think.
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