New book alleges treasury secretary called Zelensky ‘special-needs child’ (www.newsweek.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 21 Jun 17:52
https://lemmy.world/post/48462325

A forthcoming book chronicling the first year of Donald Trump’s second administration alleges that his treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, made a series of disparaging remarks about Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of the Ukrainian president’s visit to the White House early last year.

Regime Change was co-authored by the New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, based on “hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded rooms,” according to the Simon & Schuster website. It is set to be published on Tuesday, June 23.

According to excerpts published by The Guardian on Saturday, Bessent referred to Zelensky as a “little f****r” and a “special-needs child for the Europeans,” and called him “Mr. Bean on crack.”

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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today on 21 Jun 19:33 next collapse

Look who’s talking. Every member of this MAGA administration is a special needs child.

breezeblock@lemmy.ca on 21 Jun 22:57 next collapse

What a terrible basket of deplorable people

ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 22 Jun 00:05 next collapse

That’s rich coming from Scott Bessent. He’s possibly the dumbest one of that pack of imbeciles.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 22 Jun 07:46 collapse

That might be true, and it’s pretty hard to out-dumb Witkoff, or even worse, Trump.

homes@piefed.world on 22 Jun 01:56 next collapse

Another obvious case of the Nazi trying to deminishthe not-Nazi.

Because he obviously knew that his physician was the Nazi position, and he wanted everyone to pick his Nazi position rather than the not-Nazi position.

Hopefully, most people are not stupid enough to listen to him and pick the not-Nazi position

And fuck everyone who sided with his Nazi position, which is extremely obvious and transparent

cecilkorik@piefed.ca on 22 Jun 05:39 collapse

Projecting their own insecurities onto other people seems to be a hallmark of this administration. I would argue it’s a guilty conscience perhaps if I thought they had one.