This is an unfortunate mistranslation/misunderstanding. What Stamer said in The NY Times article-
>”On the day in which the Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Zelenskyy didn’t go particularly well, we were under pressure to come out very critically with, you know, flowery adjectives to describe how others felt,” Starmer recalls.
This is essentially what has been reported before. There was pressure, but internally-
>Instead of joining in the social media frenzy, Starmer took the mildest option, sending out a statement from a spokesperson of “unwavering support” for Ukraine.
>In fact, Starmer had begun working privately on a solution. “His reaction was to pick up the phone, not reach for Twitter,” according to one person familiar with the situation. Starmer held calls with both Trump and Zelenskyy and started working on a plan.”
He said so earlier in his own words to the BBC-
>“The PM’s response was to pick up the phone to his counterparts Trump and Zelensky that same night, in an effort to “get us back to the central focus”, he said.
>”There are a number of different routes people can go down. One is to ramp up the rhetoric as to how outraged we all are or not.”
He said the other option was to “roll up my sleeves” and quickly phone both men – and then also to speak to French President Emmanuel Macron about the role that the leading nations of Europe would play.
>”Because my reaction was we have to bridge this, we have to find a way that we can all work together because in the end we’ve had three years of bloody conflict now, we need to get to that lasting peace”.
It was a call from Starmer to Trump and the pressure not to take to social media, not the other way around.
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Just in case it wasn’t already obvious that the whole thing was orchestrated
What a good frame in the title picture
Sickening, just sickening.
Now he’s gifted the fat bastard a *”big beautiful portrait”*
If Hitler had been able to use such cheap flattery on FDR we would all be speaking German.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/22/putin-commissioned-beautiful-portrait-trump-us-envoy-says/
This is an unfortunate mistranslation/misunderstanding. What Stamer said in The NY Times article-
>”On the day in which the Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Zelenskyy didn’t go particularly well, we were under pressure to come out very critically with, you know, flowery adjectives to describe how others felt,” Starmer recalls.
This is essentially what has been reported before. There was pressure, but internally-
>Instead of joining in the social media frenzy, Starmer took the mildest option, sending out a statement from a spokesperson of “unwavering support” for Ukraine.
>In fact, Starmer had begun working privately on a solution. “His reaction was to pick up the phone, not reach for Twitter,” according to one person familiar with the situation. Starmer held calls with both Trump and Zelenskyy and started working on a plan.”
He said so earlier in his own words to the BBC-
>“The PM’s response was to pick up the phone to his counterparts Trump and Zelensky that same night, in an effort to “get us back to the central focus”, he said.
>”There are a number of different routes people can go down. One is to ramp up the rhetoric as to how outraged we all are or not.”
He said the other option was to “roll up my sleeves” and quickly phone both men – and then also to speak to French President Emmanuel Macron about the role that the leading nations of Europe would play.
>”Because my reaction was we have to bridge this, we have to find a way that we can all work together because in the end we’ve had three years of bloody conflict now, we need to get to that lasting peace”.
It was a call from Starmer to Trump and the pressure not to take to social media, not the other way around.