EDIT: I have to stop. C-SPAN is editing the transcript. It’s not just hidden in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and no punctuation or paragraphs. I’m sorry, you have to listen to the rest. I’m getting to angry about not having a reliable transcript. CSPAN sucks donkey balls. Also, Lemmy. It has been giving me a really hard time posting this. I don’t know how or why, but I’ve really had a hard time with this.
I will be adding the transcript below and stickying it.
Special Note: There is no video of the intro part, before lunch, where Trump talks about speaking with Putin.
1- Transcript
Zelenskyy: Thank you so much, Mr. President. Thank you for the invitation. I really hope this document will be the first step to guarantees for Ukraine. Our people, our children, we count that America will not stop support for us. It is is important to support.
I want to discuss it further during our conversation. The infrastructure and the security guarantees. Ii understand what Europe is ready to do. I want to discuss with you what the United States will be ready to do.
I really count on your strong position to stop Putin. You said that enough with the war. I thing that is very important. At the very beginning of the war, is a killer and a terrorist. I hope together we can stop him, save our country, our values, our freedom, our democracy, and of course, no compromises with a killer.
Of course, we spoke about it by phone, about production. We have the best in the world because of the war.
Of course, we need very much air defense. You have the best air defense in the world. We are under attack from Russia and I want to speak how we can exchange the licenses. We are open to share our licenses with you. We need licenses for quick production of air defense.
Even after the war, we need our nation to be secure. That is why we need the air shield. I wanted to speak. I think France and the UK already spoke to you. Europe is not ready without the United States. They are not ready to be as strong as we need.
The last point, last but not least, about exchange. You know the crazy Russians stole 20,000 Ukrainian children. They changed their names. They change their families, relatives. We want to bring them back. It is a big goal for me. by the way, more than 4000 from Russian prison. There are thousands more in the prison. I wanted to share some images. Can I now?
Trump: Please
Zelenskyy: I want you to understand the circumstances and the situation they are in and the attitude of Russia toward our prisoners, before and after. Before and after. Understanding the substance, ladies and men. they do not eat, they beat them. A lot of bad things. Even during the war, everybody knows there are rules during war. These guys do not have any rules. 50, 60 kilograms, a lot of such things. I did not want to show you the images of children. I will just share them with you.
Trump: That is tough stuff.
Zelenskyy: I wanted very much to give these to you. Stolen pastors because it is not a Russian church. They moved pastors to the prison. At the end of last year, we brought three pastors that we could exchange.
Trump: That is tough.
Zelenskyy: I wanted to show you. Thank you very much.
Trump: You wanted to get that in?
Zelenskyy: Yeah, Yeah, of course.
Trump: I think we will, we will.
Jesus, Trump basically said “Trust me bro, I’m special” or “Be more thankful” as a response to any tough question.
5-Transcript
Unknown Reporter: SENDING MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE AFTER THE U.S. SIGNS THIS AGREEMENT? DO YOU FEEL LIKE THE U.S. IS ON YOUR SIDE? PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ON YOUR SIDE AT THIS MOMENT?
Zelenskyy: What do you think?
Trump: He wants to know…Sort of a stupid question. I guess he wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t.
Zelenskyy I think that the United States from the start of the occupation, I think President Trump is on our side. And of course, I am sure United States and the President will not stop support. This is crucial for us, yes.
Putin, the President, speaks about us, the people, the soldiers who are dying, but they came to our territory, they came to our land. They began this war, they have to stop.
This is really the most important question. Can President Trump, I hope yes, with some other allies, to stop Putin, our enemies, withdraw his troops from our land.
And I think that, you asked about history. I think if the President, or when, will stop Putin, will bring peace to our country, I think he will be on this wall.
Trump: We have had very, very good, uh, talks.
4-Transcript
Unknown Reporter: MR. PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU HAVE CALLED THE DEAL WITH UKRAINE HISTORICAL. AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, YOU MAKE HISTORICAL DECISIONS WHICH AFFECT AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD. WHAT PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY DO YOU WANT TO TAKE? DO YOU ASSOCIATE YOURSELF WITH ANY FAMOUS HISTORICAL LEADERS?
Trump: I would say George Washington, Abraham Lincoln. I would say I am far superior to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. You know I’m only kidding, right? When I say that, the fake news will go wild. “He considers himself to be be better than Washington.” I do not compare myself to anybody. I am here to do a job. We have had a great 35 days. We have accomplished tremendous amounts. This would be a very great achievement if we can get the war stopped and get them back to normalization. I think that will happen. We have had very good talks on both sides. I think we have done a good job generally, if you look at all of the things we have done in 30 days. They said there has never been an opening for a president, there has never been a first month like we have had.
This is one of the very important things. This is one of the most important things. We have tremendous death taking place as we speak and I do not want to have that. Think of the parents, whether they are in Russia or Ukraine. Think of the parents of the people being killed needlessly. I should have never started. If I were president, this would have never started.
This is just a distraction, ignore this one.
3-Transcript
Zelenskyy: One of the points, speaking about business and investment. This document, we see in the framework, we see it’s really good. It is important for security of European continent. We have terminals, we have the biggest gas storage, we have the biggest in Europe. We can use it, use it for LNG. We can help Europe, our friends.
President Trump said they gave less support. They are very supportive partners, they really gave a lot Mr. President.
Trump: Oh really
Zelenskyy: No really, they did.
Trump: I don’t feel that. But they gave much less.
Zelenskyy: Noooo
Trump: What’s that.
Zelenskyy: Nooooo
2- Transcript
Trump: Do you have any questions for us?
Unknown Reporter: THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. HOW MUCH MONEY IS THE U.S. GOING TO PUT INTO THE FUND CREATED TODAY AND HOW DOES THIS PROVIDE LONG-TERM SECURITY FOR UKRAINE?
Trump: We do not know exactly how much because, we’re going to be putting some money into a fund, that we will be getting from the raw earth. We’re going to be taking and sharing, in terms of revenue, so it’s going to be a lot of money that will be made from the sale and the use of raw earth.
And as you know, our country does not have much raw earth. We have a lot of oil and gas but we do not have a lot of raw earth. And what we do have is protected by the environmentalists, but that can be unprotected.
They have among the best in the world in terms of raw earth. So, using it, taking it, using it for all of the things we do; Including AI, including weapons, and the military. It’s really going to satisfy our needs. It’s something that just worked out really well.
We have a lot of oil and a lot of gas, but we do not have raw earth. So this has just about every component of the raw earth that we need, for computers, for all of the things we do. It puts us in great shape.
Unknown Reporter: LONG-TERM SECURITY?
Trump: I think once we make the agreement, that will be 95% of it. I have spoken with President Putin. I feel very strong, I have known him for a long time, and I feel strongly that they are very serious about it and we will make a deal.
We talk about security, everyone was taling about security. I said, let me make the deal first. I have to make the deal first. I do not worry about security because we have to have a deal.
Last week, 2000 soldiers died on both sides. They are losing 1000, 2000, 3000 a week. As we talk, two people are getting shot and dying on the battlefield. They are not American soldiers, but they are Russian soldiers and Ukrainian soldiers, and we want to be able to stop it.
We also want to spend money on other things. this is a tremendous amount of money. What the Biden Administration did was terrible. they were giving money, but they had no security on the money. Europe gave much less money, but they hdad security. they got their money back and we did not. At least we are protected because the american taxpayer has to be protect too. this is an incredible agreement for Ukraine. We have a big investment in their country. What they have, very few people have. We are able to really go forward with very, very, high-tech things and many other things, including weaponry. Weaponry we will use in many locations that we need for our country. This allows us to do that.
Is it a typo or did he really switch to saying “raw earth” vs “rare earth”?
He said raw earth throughout. The transcript does NOT match the fucking video either. I’m super pissed. They took out the part about changing the laws to “unprotect” the land and a couple of other things. The transcript also says rock earth, but he is clearly saying raw earth. There isn’t a single source that has the transcript as the video is shown.
I hate that I have to do this. He is droooling, fucking drooling, at trying to get his hands on what Ukraine has. Then when they ask what Zelenskyy might get, he says to make the deal first and then we’ll see (paraphrased).
0-Transcript-Before lunch
Trump: Thank you very much. It is an honor to have President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.
We have been working very hard and very close. We have known each other for a long time. We had a little negotiation spat, but that worked out great for both countries and the world.
We have something that is a very fair deal. We look forward to getting it and digging, digging, digging, digging, digging and getting some of the rare earth. That means we will be inside.
It is a big commitment for the United States and we appreciate working with you very much. We will continue to do that. We have had some very good discussions with Russia. I spoke with President Putin and we will try to bring this to a close. Something you want and he wants. We will negotiate a deal. We have started the confines of a deal.
The big thing is the number of soldiers being killed, losing thousands of soldier on both sides. We want to see it stoip. We want to see the money get put to different kinds of use. Rebuilding.
We will be working very hard. We have had a lot of very good conversations. Until we came along, the Biden Administration did not speak to Russia whatsoever. They did not speak to anyone. they just allowed this to continue.
I will say in front of you, you have heard me say it 1000 times. If I was president, this war would never have happened. We would have had a deal negotiated for you without you having to go through what you have gone through.
Your soldiers have been unbelievably brave. We have given them great equipment. Somebody has to use the equipment and they are unbelievably brave. We give them credit.
This was supposed to be over quickly, and here we are three years later. I give tremendous credit to your generals and your soldiers and yourself in the sense that it has been very hard fighting, very tough fighting. Great fighters. You have to be very proud of them. Now we want to get it over with. That is enough.
It is an honor to have you here. Thank you very much for coming. We will sign the agreement at the conference in the East Room in a little while, right after lunch. We will be having lunch together. We will be discussing some other things and we appreciate everybody being here. It is an exciting moment. the really exciting moment is when they stop the shooting and we end up with the deal. I think we are fairly close to getting that. It is an honor to have you.
