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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.
By Batya Ungar-Sargon
03.02.25 — U.S. Politics
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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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Batya Ungar-Sargon
American Jew. Host of "Batya!" on @NewsNation, 7PM Saturday, 11AM Sunday. Author of Bad News, Second Class, and The Jews & the Left.
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Donald Trump
Russia
International
Ukraine
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