Valuetainment - August 18, 2025


“Stupid Media Narrative” - Marco Rubio DESTROYS Media’s Meltdown Over Trump-Putin Alaska Meeting


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Rob and Sarah talk about Marco Rubio's comments on Russia and the Ukraine crisis, and how he handled it. They also talk about the latest in the trade war between the U.S. and Russia and why they don't think President Trump is going to get a deal.

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00:00:00.000 Marco Rubio, to me, has become the MVP on this entire exchange
00:00:03.840 with Alaska, Russia, all of that.
00:00:06.560 I am so impressed with Marco Rubio.
00:00:09.920 I can't even describe it to you.
00:00:12.080 The way he handles media, when I watch between him and JD,
00:00:16.440 they have different styles on their games,
00:00:18.880 but just watch this exchange on how he handles it.
00:00:23.240 This is, it's not even, I don't even want to say it's a clinic.
00:00:27.800 You can tell he's so vested.
00:00:29.980 Marco, many years ago, 15 years ago when he was running,
00:00:32.500 12 years ago when he was running,
00:00:34.160 they would say he's not the hardest working senator.
00:00:36.300 That was the reputation he had.
00:00:37.720 He's not the hardest working guy.
00:00:39.980 He's not the hardest working guy.
00:00:41.400 That's the reputation he had.
00:00:42.740 Super talented, super capable, but he'll never be president
00:00:45.800 because he's not the most hardworking guy.
00:00:48.100 He just relies on his talent.
00:00:49.800 Whatever has happened, and whether it was the 2016-2020 debate,
00:00:54.180 a 2016 debate that completely changed his approach,
00:00:57.820 this is a new man.
00:00:59.020 I'm telling you right now, something's happened
00:01:00.520 that that public fight against Trump got him to improve himself.
00:01:04.820 Watch the way he handles himself here.
00:01:06.300 Go ahead, Rob.
00:01:07.300 You know there is concern from the Europeans
00:01:09.460 that President Zelensky is going to be bullied
00:01:12.760 into signing something away.
00:01:14.980 That's why you have these European leaders coming as backup tomorrow.
00:01:18.620 Can you reassure them?
00:01:19.140 No, it isn't.
00:01:19.720 That's not why they're coming as backup.
00:01:20.920 That's not true.
00:01:22.380 But that's not true.
00:01:24.220 They're not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied.
00:01:27.440 They're not coming.
00:01:27.860 Well, that February Oval Office meeting in front of television cameras
00:01:31.000 where President Zelensky was dressed down.
00:01:32.760 Do you know how many meetings you've had since then?
00:01:34.600 Oh, no, I know, and I was just up in Alaska watching the one
00:01:37.580 with Vladimir Putin where red carpet rolls rolled out.
00:01:40.300 No, but it was Zelensky.
00:01:41.160 We've had more meetings.
00:01:42.260 We've had one meeting with Putin
00:01:44.180 and like a dozen meetings with Zelensky.
00:01:46.840 But that's not true.
00:01:48.460 They're not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied.
00:01:50.820 They're coming here tomorrow because we've been working with the Europeans.
00:01:53.180 We talked to them last week.
00:01:54.160 There were meetings in the U.K. over the previous weekend.
00:01:56.840 And they said President Trump was going to demand a ceasefire.
00:01:59.140 The president talked to these leaders as early as Thursday.
00:02:01.860 But you said that they're coming here tomorrow
00:02:03.660 to keep Zelensky from being bullied.
00:02:05.020 They're not coming here tomorrow.
00:02:06.420 This is such a stupid media narrative.
00:02:08.600 They're coming here tomorrow
00:02:09.660 because Trump is going to bully Zelensky into a bad deal.
00:02:13.440 We've been working with these people for weeks,
00:02:15.520 for weeks on this stuff.
00:02:16.860 They're coming here tomorrow because they chose to come here tomorrow.
00:02:18.980 We invited them to come.
00:02:20.420 We invited them to come.
00:02:21.600 The president invited them to come.
00:02:23.680 But the president told those European leaders last week
00:02:26.120 that he wanted a ceasefire.
00:02:27.440 The president went on television,
00:02:28.740 said he would walk out of the meeting
00:02:29.920 if Vladimir Putin didn't agree with one.
00:02:31.840 He said there would be severe consequences
00:02:33.680 if he didn't agree to one.
00:02:35.160 He said he'd walk out in two minutes.
00:02:36.560 He spent three hours talking to Vladimir Putin
00:02:38.300 and he did not get one.
00:02:40.780 So there's some mixed messages.
00:02:42.100 Because obviously things happened during that meeting.
00:02:43.980 Well, because obviously things...
00:02:45.260 Look, our goal here is not to stage some production for the world
00:02:48.520 to say, oh, how dramatic he walked out.
00:02:50.140 Our goal here is to have a peace agreement,
00:02:52.640 to end this war, okay?
00:02:53.980 And obviously we felt, and I agreed,
00:02:56.240 that there was enough...
00:02:57.260 By the way, he to me...
00:03:00.260 Remember how with the tariffs,
00:03:01.980 the MVP became bested, right?
00:03:03.940 With each issue, to me, there's an MVP.
00:03:06.340 Rubio's the MVP.
00:03:07.200 Like when I always say,
00:03:07.960 Tom's the MVP about selling the company.
00:03:09.780 When we sold the company, Tom was the MVP.
00:03:11.280 How many times have you heard me say that?
00:03:12.500 Hundreds of times, right?
00:03:14.240 Rubio's the MVP in this case.
00:03:15.720 Wow.
00:03:16.000 I'm so impressed by Rubio.
00:03:17.420 For Russia, Ukraine... 0.84
00:03:19.140 Oh, I am just so impressed with Rubio.
00:03:22.760 I can't even describe to you.
00:03:24.380 That's awesome.
00:03:24.760 In this specific project,
00:03:26.320 I'm so impressed with Rubio
00:03:27.780 and the way he's handling himself.
00:03:29.260 Because there was a meeting this morning
00:03:31.600 with Mario Bartiromo.
00:03:32.700 No, yesterday.
00:03:33.980 He did an interview with Mario yesterday.
00:03:36.180 And another one...
00:03:36.900 Yeah, so in the interview with Mario,
00:03:38.580 I was like, no, that's not true.
00:03:39.620 Look, the reality of it is,
00:03:41.240 what if nothing happens?
00:03:43.120 What if this, what if that?
00:03:44.080 She's asking.
00:03:44.640 He says, what if nothing happens?
00:03:45.960 We're going to have to go back to sanctions
00:03:47.220 and we're going to have to go back
00:03:48.160 to what we had before,
00:03:49.660 which means there is nothing going on
00:03:51.520 for another 15 months, 18 months, year.
00:03:53.800 That's not what Putin wants.
00:03:54.760 If Putin wants to go there
00:03:55.640 and there is no deal,
00:03:56.400 we have to go back to that.
00:03:58.020 And then he says,
00:03:59.340 don't forget,
00:04:00.400 this isn't about us and Russia.
00:04:02.800 This isn't about us and Ukraine.
00:04:04.340 We don't have a war.
00:04:05.580 They have a war.
00:04:06.700 We're simply trying to bring,
00:04:08.260 broker a peace deal here.
00:04:09.800 We didn't start this war.
00:04:10.720 This is between them.
00:04:11.900 All we're trying to do
00:04:12.720 is find a way to get this thing
00:04:13.780 knocked out of the way.
00:04:14.940 So then the question becomes NATO.
00:04:17.140 Does NATO want this war to be done?
00:04:18.780 So let's kind of go through the process
00:04:20.500 on why NATO, EU,
00:04:22.380 why are these leaders,
00:04:23.880 all these folks,
00:04:24.580 Rob, can you pull up
00:04:25.200 who will be joining Zelensky
00:04:26.340 in the meeting with Putin,
00:04:27.520 in the meeting with Trump?
00:04:29.220 So if you look at the list of people
00:04:30.860 that are joining,
00:04:31.900 why are they coming?
00:04:32.880 Is it because Zelensky
00:04:35.320 was out of control last time?
00:04:36.940 Is it because Zelensky
00:04:38.700 was bullied last time?
00:04:42.160 Is it because Zelensky
00:04:43.820 didn't know how to negotiate
00:04:45.480 and diplomacy,
00:04:47.100 he lacks diplomacy?
00:04:48.020 Because obviously,
00:04:49.720 Zelensky is probably
00:04:50.820 the worst in diplomacy
00:04:52.040 between the three.
00:04:53.460 If you think about Zelensky,
00:04:54.820 Trump, and Putin,
00:04:55.740 Putin's willing to sit down.
00:04:57.480 Putin's willing to talk.
00:04:58.820 Biden was horrible
00:05:00.060 with diplomacy.
00:05:01.340 Zelensky, horrible 1.00
00:05:02.520 with diplomacy.
00:05:03.620 Maybe Starmer is coming in
00:05:05.560 because he has diplomacy,
00:05:06.760 which he does.
00:05:07.440 He understands the idea
00:05:09.320 of what's going on there.
00:05:10.180 So do we have the list of people?
00:05:11.360 Yeah, Rob, I sent you
00:05:12.880 a picture of who's coming.
00:05:14.320 French Macron will be there.
00:05:16.080 Ursula, President
00:05:17.080 of the European Commission
00:05:18.400 will be there.
00:05:19.340 German Chancellor will be there.
00:05:20.380 Italian Giorgia Meloni
00:05:21.400 will be there.
00:05:21.940 By the way, just so you know,
00:05:23.300 most of these guys
00:05:23.960 have a decent relationship
00:05:24.800 with Trump.
00:05:25.540 So what, they're trying
00:05:26.280 to protect him?
00:05:26.980 Is that what they're trying
00:05:27.620 to do?
00:05:28.000 Or are they worried
00:05:29.700 that Zelensky is going
00:05:30.620 to ruin it again
00:05:31.500 and there's more war?
00:05:32.460 Because, you know,
00:05:33.600 the promise that Trump's
00:05:35.220 trying to give Putin,
00:05:36.360 brokering it through EU,
00:05:38.360 from what I've looked at
00:05:40.220 with what people are saying,
00:05:41.680 is he's trying to make sure
00:05:43.120 Trump knows Ukraine
00:05:45.100 is not going to join NATO.
00:05:46.920 But if you cross the line again,
00:05:50.040 I'm going to be participating
00:05:51.480 in Article 5.
00:05:52.440 Like, we may be involved
00:05:54.320 in an Article 5
00:05:55.080 because you're crossing the line.
00:05:56.660 You can't attack Ukraine.
00:05:57.880 So I think some of the ways
00:05:59.420 they're trying to,
00:05:59.980 they're trying to give Russia 0.97
00:06:00.820 what he wants,
00:06:01.800 which means Ukraine
00:06:02.540 can join NATO,
00:06:03.860 but then at the same time,
00:06:05.220 they're also trying
00:06:06.040 to protect Ukraine
00:06:08.800 that if you do attack them,
00:06:10.300 this also is a form of a,
00:06:12.220 what is the one
00:06:13.140 that's on the NATO
00:06:14.440 that if you cross the line,
00:06:15.520 it is as if you're
00:06:16.220 attacking EU,
00:06:17.040 Article 5.
00:06:17.680 I thought that's Article 5.
00:06:18.860 You attack one,
00:06:19.620 you attack all,
00:06:20.320 we are obligated to help.
00:06:21.540 So then they ask him
00:06:23.560 and they say,
00:06:23.960 well, what about the minerals?
00:06:25.580 You know,
00:06:25.900 you need so many minerals
00:06:26.900 from them.
00:06:27.380 What about that?
00:06:28.360 And he's like,
00:06:28.860 what about the minerals?
00:06:30.580 You think we can't get them
00:06:31.740 from other places?
00:06:32.500 He says, yeah,
00:06:33.000 of course we like the minerals
00:06:33.980 from Zelensky.
00:06:34.720 Of course we like minerals
00:06:35.600 from Russia,
00:06:36.180 but we have other options as well.
00:06:37.760 I just really like the way
00:06:39.260 Rubio's handling himself.
00:06:40.820 But to me,
00:06:41.500 with the meeting
00:06:42.040 that they're having,
00:06:42.960 that's going to be happening today,
00:06:44.520 one,
00:06:45.980 if Zelensky wears a suit,
00:06:48.260 who wins there?
00:06:50.720 Who gets the win
00:06:52.080 if he wears a suit?
00:06:53.320 Trump.
00:06:53.840 No, Trump gets the win.
00:06:55.480 Trump gets the win.
00:06:56.740 If NATO forces,
00:06:58.620 whoever got Zelensky
00:06:59.980 to wear a suit,
00:07:01.400 that's because of,
00:07:02.320 that's Trump's ask.
00:07:03.640 Yes.
00:07:04.020 So I guarantee you on a call,
00:07:05.900 Trump and his people
00:07:06.880 talked to all these
00:07:07.860 seven other people
00:07:08.760 and they said,
00:07:09.780 I swear to God,
00:07:10.820 if he shows up to the White House
00:07:11.880 without a suit,
00:07:12.380 there's no deal.
00:07:13.540 Okay, so that's one.
00:07:14.700 So guess what?
00:07:15.580 They all are going to force
00:07:17.400 this guy to wear a suit.
00:07:18.360 Will he?
00:07:18.680 Will he not?
00:07:19.260 We'll see.
00:07:19.680 If he doesn't,
00:07:20.320 guess what?
00:07:20.660 You lack diplomacy.
00:07:22.400 Okay?
00:07:22.860 To say,
00:07:23.400 this is the standard of our house.
00:07:24.960 You come in here,
00:07:25.720 damn suit.
00:07:26.680 I don't give a shit
00:07:27.200 what you want to wear
00:07:27.700 in your house.
00:07:28.280 In our house,
00:07:29.120 you wear a suit.
00:07:30.140 All right, great.
00:07:30.700 So then he has to step up his game.
00:07:32.380 There's a lot of things
00:07:33.200 that's going on right now
00:07:33.980 in the marketplace.
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