Americans on Lemmy, and especially republicans/conservatives, how do you feel about your president and vice president after the press meeting with Zelenskyj?

Besides politics, I’m interested in what you think regarding the behaviour of the two most powerful men in the world, scolding another country’s leader on TV?
It’s such an remarkable happening that political commentators in my country just comment it with ‘I lack words’.

Tldr: Americans, mainly republicans, how do you feel about your presidents recent amateurish and somewhat unexpected behavior against Zelenskyj?

Edit: more exactly how do you feel about these two persons being the ultimate representative for your country against the rest of the world

  • Zonetrooper@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Not Republican myself, but work with a lot of them. I’m seeing a few different camps right now. I can’t really speak for exactly how many fall into each, but can only give estimates based on my subjective experiences:

    • The “Leopard-Facers”: The ones who’ve suddenly woken up to the fact they elected a moron and a bully. These tend to be foreign policy hawks, and may have only voted for Trump reluctantly. Probably the smallest group.

    • The pure Trumpists: A mix of people who thought the US should be isolationist anyhow, just don’t like Zelensky in particular, or just are too invested in the vision of messiah-Trump. Obviously they’re thrilled. Very vocal, but I think also somewhat fewer. Maybe I just hope they’re fewer.

    • The cognitive dissonancers: Probably the greatest number. There’s a lot of different views under this umbrella. Some of them were buying into the idea “he’s just blustering for a better deal”; some thought the message was on-point but the display was inappropriate; some actually support Ukraine but can’t bring themselves express any actual opposition to this shitshow. Broadly speaking, they’re all squirming - struggling to reconcile the appeal they feel for his persona or other actions he’s taken, with their opposition to his foreign policy and this in particular. Yet not able to accept reality like the Leopard-Facers.