“Adults in the Room” Are on Planes Flying to Trump’s Room Right Now

by | Aug 18, 2025 | The Truscott Chronicles

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine. Image: X

“Adults in the Room” Are on Planes Flying to Trump’s Room Right Now

by | Aug 18, 2025 | The Truscott Chronicles

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine. Image: X

That the fate of the nation of Ukraine hangs in the balance, subject to the whims of the toddler in the White House, is the scandal of this century.

Republished with permission from Lucian K. Truscott IV

European nations under threat of Russian expansionistic aggression have found it necessary to send their leaders to Washington D.C. to be present for the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose nation, Ukraine, is not only under threat of Russian aggression, but the victim of it.

Read this paragraph from today’s Washington Post and weep:

“NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Finnish President Alexander Stubb confirmed Sunday that they will join Zelensky.”

Can you imagine? The President of the United States is seen as so unreliable and erratic and childlike that he needs babysitters. Donald Trump was famously admiring of Vladimir Putin, then he was disappointed with him, then he was mad at him, then he threatened him with new sanctions, then he shortened the timeframe for the sanctions, then he invited him to American soil and rolled out the fucking red carpet for him and caved when Putin told him no deal on a ceasefire, no concessions to Ukraine, no nothing for you or Zelenskyy. Asked on Air Force One on his way back to play yet another round of golf on Saturday, Trump called his meeting with Putin “a 10.”

Pardon me while I step away from my desk to puke.

The Times, the Post, CNN, Associated Press, all the major news outlets are reporting the fact that a team of adults in the room are flying to the United States to protect Zelenskyy from Trump as if it’s a normal news story, not the story that it is—disgusting evidence of how far we have fallen as a nation, politically, morally, and in every other measurable way. That the fate of the nation of Ukraine hangs in the balance, subject to the whims of the toddler in the White House, is the scandal of this century.

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Lucian K. Truscott IV

Lucian K. Truscott IV

Lucian K. Truscott IV, a graduate of West Point, has had a 50-year career as a journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He has covered stories such as Watergate, the Stonewall riots and wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also the author of five bestselling novels and several unsuccessful motion pictures. He has three children, lives in rural Pennsylvania and spends his time Worrying About the State of Our Nation and madly scribbling in a so-far fruitless attempt to Make Things Better.

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