The Dan Bongino Show
The Explosive White House Meeting That Changed Everything (Ep. 2434)
Mon, 03 Mar 2025
In this episode, I discuss the fallout from last Friday's Trump/Zelenskyy meeting at the White House, the next steps and how this will affect America, Ukraine and Europe. Plus, the predictable media psyop campaign continues. Trump Signs Executive Order Creating U.S. Crypto Reserve British Prime Minister Vows to Put British Boots on the Ground in Ukraine Bessent Calls Out Media for Hiding Economic Crisis Until Trump Took Office Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is hosting today's episode?
Hey, Bongino Army. I looked everywhere for Dan. I can't find him, so I figured I'm the captain now. We're going to have to rip the Band-Aid off at some point. He's not going to be with us. So I just figured this was a great opportunity for me to introduce myself to the Bongino Army. I've met a few of you on social media. You have been so welcoming and so wonderful. I am Haley Karania.
I'm going to be hosting Nightly Scrolls, 6 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday to Friday on Rumble, so I hope you join me. And, oh... Look who decided to show up for his own show.
Look at that. Thank you, Haley. So good to have you. Hey, there you go. What an introduction. Of course, I was not late. I asked Haley to do that. They leave me a little note. Look at these guys. Can you read that? Plug in IFB because Michael was so afraid. You love her already? So this morning, let me give you a little kind of inside baseball.
Haley came in this morning and we wanted to run through kind of, you know, they call them like a sizzle reel in the business. Where, you know, she goes out and she just kind of does, you know, does her thing. So she's playing and reading through the script. And I was like, this is your shot, man. Just, you know, we can do a few runs if you want. And boom! First time, Zeus lightning bolts.
She's like, you want me to do it over? Justin, what did we sit there and do afterwards? We're like, no! Yeah. No, no. I'm like, no, no, doing that over. First time. I'm telling you, man, we got to, we really, I don't, I don't do a ton of things great, but one thing I do well, I have an incredible, I'm an incredible judge of talent.
Obviously Evita's show, who's sitting right here too, been amazing. And now you got Haley Carineo, who's going to tear it up. But you guys are a little, come on, Bongino Army. Were you guys a little bugged out when we had an empty seat in the beginning of the show? Do you really think I missed the show? Hello. Well, I mean, seriously, that's not a hard that's not a tough standard.
I mean, Dan Bongino is going to you know, I do radio, too, for a reason. When I first went to video, I told Paula, I'm like, my gosh, you know, I hope people don't recoil in horror. But I do have a show to get started today. I got a lot of content for you.
And I'm going to do what may be my last weekend update before I have to change out to the nonpartisan FBI deputy director hat in just a couple of weeks. So I'm going to love these final final shows. You're going to be great. Today's show is sponsored by Beam. Go to shopbeam.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino for 47% off your first order. Today's show also sponsored by Patriot Mobile.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the Trump-Zelensky meeting?
I mean, we knew it was scheduled, but no one knew this thing was going to blow up. So I was expecting the VOD to collapse because everybody would want to watch what happened after the podcast. We did pretty well, but we got to cover some of it live on the radio. And now taking it all in, Bongino rule. Folks, this was just an unquestionable catastrophe for President Zelensky. Let me tell you why.
Upfront, what we call bluff, right? Bottom line, upfront. The golden rule of negotiations, or if you want to always sound smart like John Bolton says it, negotiations. I don't care how you say it. I'm just going to tell you this. Whether it's a legal case, a civil suit, a baseball player's contract, or you're negotiating for military support in a tragic war, the golden rule is this.
Know who's sitting across the table from you. And I don't know if Zelensky just didn't know that Donald Trump is not to be toyed with or if he did know and just took bad advice. There's a story out there I'm applying the Bongino rule to that a group of Democrats and kind of center-leaning Republicans told Zelensky to go in there and play hardball with President Trump.
I'm applying the Bongino rule to that story before I draw a conclusion. It doesn't matter, though. It is your job as the president of a country fighting in this tragic war, no doubt, with all too much death and destruction. It is your job to know who's sitting across the table. He didn't. Clearly tried the tactic of one-upping Donald Trump and it didn't work. However, astonishingly, it got worse.
President Zelensky did an interview after with Brett Baier from Fox after the blow up and still at least appears to imply here or say directly, you know, your own interpretation matters, that he doesn't need to apologize to President Trump and by proxy the American people, too. Check it out. Listen yourself.
Not hearing from you, Mr. President, a thought that you owe the president an apology.
No, I respect the president and I respect American people. And if I don't know if I think that we have to be very open and very honest. And I'm not sure that we did something bad. I think maybe sometimes some some some things we have to discuss out of context.
out of media with all respect to democracy and to a free media but there are things that where we have to understand the position of ukraine and ukrainians
All right. OK, a couple of things here, a couple of takeaways, because I want to focus on not just the emotions surrounding this. Again, I tell you guys all the time and I want to be a fraud or a hypocrite or a phony. It's my biggest fear. You can't be a spreadsheets guy. Hey, man, plus ones or minus ones are people to us. Plus ones or minus ones don't get emotional and then get emotional.
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