The Oval Office Prize Fight
By: Obie Usategui
2/28/2025

Case any of you missed today’s joint press conference with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and our president Donald Trump, well, if you did, and if you, like me like boxing, I can only tell you, the exchange today between these two would make the two fights between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, “The Fight of the Century” on March 9, 1971, and “The Thriller in Manila”, on October 1, 1975, both pale in comparison to what we saw in today’s press conference.

Simply put, Donald Trump and Vice-President J.D. Vance unlike their democratic predecessors, Obama and Biden, put Zelenskyy, the physical and mental midget in its place, while calling him, among other things, “disrespectful” after the start of a really heated argument where Trump and Vance told Zelenskyy “you’re not acting at all thankful”, adding again, that the Ukrainian leader had been disrespectful, and telling him, “you are gambling with World War III.”

Let me tell you friends, I am, as you might have noticed in my writings, a very passionate person and, I must say, I have never been as proud of my president Donald Trump as I was today. In fact, as I was watching Trump today, I could not help, watching myself as I have gone through life putting people in their place as needed. Those that know me well can attest to that fact. Not that I am Trump, just that he has that character that does not put up with “b.s” from anyone.

A couple of comments on this whole thing. First and foremost, what we saw develop today on T.V. was history as, never before, not that I know of, has any president dared to have this kind of display in front of a T.V. audience, which, by the way, will probably be [the] issue for which he [Trump] will be more criticized for from the Left and from all Trump haters. I, on the other hand, take my hat off to Trump and Vance for not trying to be “politically correct”, as would have been the case with most all other politicians that we know of, albeit to where “We-The-People” are always left on the dark, having to rely on the “fake news” media.

What today’s meeting confirmed to me was that with Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, what you see is what you get. There are no filters, nothing for cameras. Let me tell you friends, before today, I thought Trump had guts, as he had proved in the two encounters of threats against his life. That said, however, I say this man has, bigger “you-know-what” than I have ever seen in my life.

As to the Zelenskyy asshole, well, I have been saying it all along. This pigmy, this dwarf, like many short men, are all filled with inferiority complexes due to their size. In addition, I have written about it in many of my previous narratives, this man was emboldened by the other asshole, Joe Biden, who spoiled him by giving him billions of dollars without asking for any accounting on how our money would be spent. In fact, over the last three years, we saw this little person come over many times to ask for more money, even doing so to a Democratic Congress who went along with it while alleging it was all for a righteous cause.

To all the Trump haters that read my articles, let me be noticeably clear. My position on today’s sparring match and my position on Zelenskyy, is not, by any means preemptive on how I feel about Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – one does not preempt the other – they are not mutually exclusive. Putin is one of the world’s most despicable dictators and he had no right to invade Ukraine the way they did. Similarly, Zelenskyy, should be thankful that were it not for the U.S. and how we have helped them, Ukraine, today would be annexed to Russia in its entirety.

I am taking bets on what I think sparked today’s prize fight. I bet you, that he [Zelenskyy], thought he had Trump by the “you-know-what” in the so-called “minerals deal”; and that the minerals deal entitled him [Ukraine] to a lot more than what the U.S. would request from Putin in exchange to a “cease-fire.” In other words, Ukraine had, according to Zelenskyy, ‘the upper hand”, as the U.S., besides all else, stood to benefit more economically in a cease fire treaty, thus an arrogant demeanor heartened by Joe Biden during the last three years, as he [Biden] talked the tough talk but failed to do diddly squat.

Bottom line, no, I do not like Putin, but I also dislike Zelenskyy. I do not know why, Zelenskyy brings back bad memories. I always remember as our own Fidel Castro, at the beginning of the Revolution would always wear a military uniform, despite the fact, he never was a member of any armed forces. I always thought Castro wore his military olive outfit as to send a message to the world. This Zelenskyy, you might have noticed too, is never clothed with a tie and jacket as most heads-of-states, instead wearing his “war fatigue” costume, as though to send a subliminal message to the world of his courage. And, you know that legendary quote “tell me what you boast, and I’ll tell you what you lack.”

I was also curious to see how this whole affair would be judged in the court of public opinion as I anticipated, as I thought, this incident would be idyllic for Trump haters’ negative talking points. And, sure enough, no sooner was all of it unfolding live on the news, no sooner there were your customary Trump critics, i.e., the Karl Rove idiot and others who wasted no time in criticizing Trump, which, by the way, brings me to my closing thoughts.

To all who do not like Trump, to all of you who are historically critical of Trump’s character and I know there are many who feel that way; to all who allege Trump may have jeopardized the chance of ending the war in Ukraine; and/or to all who say that Putin is the big winner; to all you, I say hogwash. The way I look at this, I am as proud as I have ever been of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. I am proud of Marco Rubio for the way he stood behind Donald Trump issuing a public statement of his support for the president. I am proud of Senator Lindsey Graham also for coming out and praising Trump.

In closing, the big loser in this whole deal is not the U.S., nor it is not Russia or Putin. The big loser friends are Ukraine and, specifically, is Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who, for the last three years has enjoyed the undisputed help of our nation to the tune of over $200 billion dollars which we still do not know where or how they were spent. As far as Trump is concerned, kudos to you Mr. President for wearing your pants the way a man is supposed to. And, to Zelenskyy, one last message. If anything may I politely remind you that Obama gave you sheets while Trump gave you Javelins. God save us and God save the United States of America.