Lawrence: Trump humiliated on the world stage as France's Macron instantly corrects his Ukraine lie

well Donald Trump made history today and so today became a day that will live in infamy in presidential history because today Donald Trump formally rejected the position that every American president has held since Franklin Delano Roosevelt masterminded the American victory in World War II leader of the Free World that is what Franklin Roosevelt turned the job of the presidency into during World War II every subsequent president until Donald Trump fulfilled that role especially at the United Nations the United Nations began in the imagination of President Roosevelt while President Roosevelt was making the key strategic decisions

leading to victory in World War II he was also plan the aftermath of the war he was planning the peace that's the way he talked about it planning the Peace during the war he sometimes referred to America and its allies in the war as the United Nations he didn't live to see his design of the United Nations come true but when the United Nations was organized after World War II it was basically the Franklin Roosevelt design and every day at the United Nations throughout its history the American president's ambassador to the United Nations always stood

on the side of Freedom the United States of America in the United Nations voted with the free nations of the world against the cruestv against the Soviet Union in the 21st century as Russian president Vladimir Putin began turning the Russian government into a dictatorship again the United States leadership of the Free World at the United Nations meant standing against Russian aggression since Russia invaded Ukraine exactly three years ago on this day the United Nations passed six resolutions against the Russian attack on Ukraine and the United States voted with the Free World against the Russian war

war on Ukraine every single time until today the United Nations once again today approved a resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine and for the first time in history the United States did not stand on the side of freedom in the United Nations the United States for the first time in history voted with the dictator against the Free World Donald Trump voted with Vladimir Putin in the United Nations and so it's official it really is as of today if there's a leader of the Free World it is not the president of the United States it might

be the president of France Emanuel macron who played an important role in presidential history today making Donald Trump the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that Ally General Charles deal who became the president of France after World War II may have been the most egotistical elected president anywhere in the world Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt couldn't stand deal during World War II but they knew they had to deal with him and they never had public disagreements

with General Charles deal am mcon maybe one of the least egotistical French presidents in history but today it was the mild mannered French president who had to interrupt the blustering president of the United States when the president of the United States was lying and it fell to the French President to correct the American president in a way we have never seen an American president corrected before by another head of state or by anyone Donald Trump did his standard lie about Europe's Aid to Ukraine the lie that Europe has loaned money to Ukraine and it's a

loan and Ukraine has to pay it back Donald Trump became the first American president in history fully humiliated on the world stage by instantly getting caught and corrected in his lie Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine they get their money back no in fact to be to be frank uh we paid we paid 60% of the total eort and it was through like the US loans guarantee grants and we we provided real money to be clear we have 230 billion frozen assets in Europe Russian assets but this is not as a collateral of a

loan because this is not our belonging so they are frozen if at the end of the day in the negotiation we will have with Russia they're ready to give to give it to us super it will be loan at the end of the day and Russia will have pidet if you believe that it's okay with me Mr but they get their money back we don't and now we do but you know that's only fair he actually reached out president of France reached out grabbed the arm of the American president to stop him from telling a

lie about France and the rest of the countries of Europe so Donald Trump's response to being corrected on his lie was to Simply tell the LIE again they get their money back when President mcon finished speaking Donald Trump just told the LIE again so on the day when Donald Trump officially SNS the presidency on the international stage lower than it has ever Ben by not only surrendering leadership of the Free World at the United Nations but standing against the Free World then right there in the Oval Office Donald Trump is humiliated and exposed in a

way that no previous president ever could be because no previous president would be pathological enough to try to tell a lie like that right in front of the person he's lying about about and no previous president could possibly be stupid enough to try to tell a lie like that but as our first guest tonight has written quote The Divide in politics today is between unreality and reality y Professor Timothy Snider wrote that Donald Trump constantly represents unreality his followers constantly prove they share that same unreality with Donald Trump they are unreachable by reality they are

unreachable by the reality presented today by the French President Trump's followers will never see what the French President did to Donald Trump in the Oval Office today and if they did see it they wouldn't understand it and Donald Trump knows that which is why after the French President catches him in a lie Donald Trump just tells the LIE again president macron tried to break through to Trump followers by appearing on Fox at the end of the day today the is clearly the anniversary of the beginning of the aggression war of Russia and Ukraine they invited

they invaded Ukraine uh 3 years ago we want peace and I think the initiative of President Trump is a very positive one but my message was to say be careful because we need something substantial for Ukraine but for the security of Europe and France and second let's work together on the future to preserve security guarantees meaning to be sure that this peace will be respected by Russia the now powerless Republican senior Senator Mitch McConnell who when he was in the Senate leadership enabled Donald Trump in every way that he possibly could issued a statement today

saying refusing to acknowledge Russia as the undeniable and unprovoked aggressor is more than an unseemly moral equivalency it reflects a gross misunderstanding of the nature of negotiations and leverage blame for this human catastrophe rests solely on Vladimir Putin here's how we know if Russian forces laid down their arms Europe would be at peace if Ukrainian forces laid down theirs Putin's aims would not stop with Kei mistaking this fact is as embarrassing in as it is costly without a clear and Resolute commitment to the leadership and order that underpins our prosperity and security America's adversaries will

receive exactly what they hope for there is no question the entire world is watching speaking of embarrassing in the joint press conference with President macron Donald Trump was asked about his threatened teror s against Canada and Mexico the tariffs are going forward on time on schedule uh this is uh an abuse that took place for many many years and I'm not even blaming the other countries that did this I I blame our leadership for allowing it to happen I mean you know who can blame them if they made these great deals with the United States

took advantage of the United States on uh on manufacturing on just about everything every aspect that you can imagine they took advantage of I look at some of these agreements I'd read them at night and I'd say who would ever sign a thing like this yeah that's a good question who who would sign something so bad for America I think the control room actually has a picture of who signed it let's see ah yeah there he is that's the guy who signed the current trade agreement with Canada and Mexico he did it the first time

he was president and I think we got him holding up yeah there he is holding up his very proud signature look at how proud he is of that signature on what he called then the greatest trade deal in history for the first time in American history We have replaced a disastrous trade deal that rewarded Outsourcing with a truly fair and reciprocal trade deal that will keep J jobs wealth and growth right here in America and in a true sense it's also a partnership with Mexico and Canada and ourselves against the world it's really a trade

partnership if you look at it that way and it's a day of great celebration in all three countries great celebration in all three countries the perfect trade deal Canada Mexico and the United States all three countries and nothing changed between that day and today the Biden Administration did not change one word of the Donald Trump signed trade agreement with Canada and Mexico so imagine an elderly president who says who would ever sign anything like this and then you produce the pictures of him signing it wouldn't the Washington press Court just scream about the cognitive decline

of that President wouldn't the White House Press Corps ask screaming questions about the president's mental capacity two presidents shamed and embarrassed Donald Trump today the first was the president of France the second was the president of the United States today Ukraine's President Vladimir zalinski said this this war has deep meaning it is a fight for independence the kind that many nations have gone through those who fight survive those who surrender are erased by history and we ukrainians exist and we always will