The biased US media has now started to actually embarrass world leaders!
On February 28, 2025, many leaders from the EU fell prey to a selective and misleading US media narrative.
The culprit? An out of context eight-minute clip of a heated exchange in the Oval Office between President Trump, VP Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
This short video was broadcasted widely by all major U.S. media outlets, highlighting the friction between the two leaders, and that the US was treating Ukraine unfairly by not supporting President Zelenskyy.
As a result, EU leaders across social media platforms rushed to express their misinformed opinions with political slogans.
The Full Story: What the Media Left Out
In reality, US media had conveniently omitted crucial details of the full discussion.
The conversation in the Oval Office (read full transcript and see video) was far more comprehensive than the viral clip suggested.
Before the heated exchange seen in the eight-minute snippet, President Trump had extended significant support to Ukraine to make sure the ceasefire would be a long lasting one:
- Arms Supply: President Trump offered a continuation of military aid, ensuring Ukraine had the weapons and defense systems necessary to resist external threats.
- Peacekeeping Forces: In addition to military support from allied nations such as UK and France, President Trump did not rule out deploying a U.S. peacekeeping force to stabilize key regions, preventing further escalation.
- Joint Economic Development: A strategic economic partnership was the core of what was on the table, which would have linked the American and Ukrainian economies closely, fostering long-term stability and prosperity for both nations.
The heated exchange seen towards the end was due to the fact that President Zelenskyy did not seem to want a peace deal! So the message spread by the US media was actually exactly the opposite of what happened.
Instead, the US media opted to falsely sensationalize the final ten minutes of the meeting, and omitted all the key details.
Misguided Statements by Fooled EU Leaders
As it turns out, international leaders, especially the EU leaders, took their cues from this misleading portrayal by the US media.
Within hours, social media was flooded with statements condemning America’s “aggressive” stance and expressing unwavering solidarity with Ukraine, based entirely on an incomplete and misleading narrative by the US media.
Had these leaders waited for a more comprehensive account of the meeting (or watched the meeting themselves), they might have recognized the depth of support actually being offered.
To make it worse, within hours, the entire analysis of the meeting and the full recording was also on social media. Every citizen in all countries was now aware of what actually transpired. Top influencers expressed dismay at the misinformed slogans by EU leaders. Everyone was surprised to see how their country’s leaders poorly responded to the event.
The rushed responses by EU leaders made them look reactionary and ill-informed.
Back to Square One
Since then, the US mainstream media has shamefully continued the same propaganda while the EU leaders have unfortunately again taken the bait, again.
Fool me twice…
They organized the summit and came up with the same support to Ukraine that President Trump had already put on the table after the meetings with President Macron and PM Starmer.
And they continue to ask for the same support from the US that President Trump had already offered!
It’s a comedy of errors and they don’t even realize it.
The Bigger Issue: Media Manipulation in Politics
This raises growing concerns about how easily a biased US media is able to manipulate global political narratives.
This incident is just another example of selective and biased reporting shaping global discourse in the wrong direction.
The role of the media should be to inform, not to curate narratives that suit particular agendas. By stripping the context from critical discussions, they do a disservice to the public and to the very leaders they claim to hold accountable.
Moving forward, this episode should serve as a warning:
- World leaders, especially from the EU, must ensure they base their statements on full, verified information, rather than on viral and false media snippets.
- And the public must remain vigilant, questioning the narratives being fed to them.
Because in the end, misinformation doesn’t just embarrass world leaders—it misguides entire nations.
