Why do left-wing media lapdogs keep humiliating themselves by trying to play verbal chess against Republican heavyweights like Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, and Tom Homan?
It’s almost like they enjoy being publicly outclassed on their own shows. Maybe they think this time will be different, that this will be the moment they finally catch a Trump official off guard and deliver that viral “gotcha” moment. Instead, what happens every single time? They get schooled.
Take George Stephanopoulos, for example. On Sunday’s episode of This Week, he thought he’d try his luck against Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Big mistake. The topic? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s meeting with President Trump and VP JD Vance, which went about as well for Zelensky as the war itself has gone for Ukraine. Rubio, in classic form, dismantled Stephanopoulos’s weak attempt to paint Trump as some kind of Putin puppet.
Stephanopoulos tried to push the absurd claim that Trump was “siding” with Russia over Ukraine, as if the Biden administration’s reckless blank-check policy has done anything other than prolong the war. Rubio wasn’t having it. He laid it out plainly: the goal is to end the war, full stop.
That means bringing the Russians to the table, something the Europeans have failed to do, something Biden didn’t even try to do. And here’s the kicker: we haven’t even talked to the Russians in three years. So how exactly does the left think this war is going to end? More of the same? More blank checks? More Ukrainian lives lost?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio schools George Stephanopoulos (and Lisa Murkowski) on the meaning of diplomacy.
“Shouldn’t we all be happy that we have a president who’s trying to stop wars and prevent them instead of start them? I just don’t get it. I really don’t, other than… pic.twitter.com/CVYynJgOR3
— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) March 2, 2025
This is where the media gets it completely backwards. No one is saying Putin is a humanitarian. But refusing to engage in diplomacy because of some childish moral grandstanding does nothing but ensure the war drags on indefinitely. Meanwhile, the same Biden administration that refuses to pressure Zelensky to consider a ceasefire has spent months twisting Israel’s arm to end its war against Hamas. As Rubio pointed out, Ukraine has gotten a free pass by comparison.
And that’s the problem, isn’t it? The Democrat Party and their media mouthpieces have convinced themselves that Zelensky is the next Winston Churchill. He’s not. But he’s also not the villain some on the right make him out to be. He’s just a man stuck in a war he can’t win, taking terrible advice from a U.S. administration that clearly values using Ukraine as a geopolitical pawn more than it values an actual peace deal.
And that’s where Trump and Rubio’s approach makes sense. Diplomacy isn’t about picking a hero and a villain—it’s about getting results. If Trump had been president, this war never would have started in the first place. But since Biden’s incompetence let it spiral out of control, the only rational move is to clean up the mess and get to a settlement.
Yet here we are, watching media hacks like Stephanopoulos act outraged that Trump isn’t blindly pledging endless resources to a war that doesn’t have a path to victory. They call it “siding with Russia.” What it actually is? The art of the deal. And when that deal gets done, expect the same media that’s attacking Trump now to pretend they supported it all along. Classic.
