“U.S. President Donald Trump had said in a social media post Sunday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to what he described as an "energy ceasefire" without offering specifics on terms.

In an interview with Axios, Zelenskyy said Trump's post was the first he had heard of the deal“

🤦‍♂️

Seems like someone is desperate for good news to report.

what if - and here me out - he simply lied about the whole thing?

Just to be clear:

• there’s no ceasefire - this is just orangeboi trying to manifest it into being by just declaring that it’s a thing.
• the only real motivation orangeboi has for doing this is to try to juice public opinion before the midterms
• Russia is definitely gonna lob some missiles at Ukraine between now and the election
• I would be unsurprised if Orangeboi uses any retaliatory measures from Ukraine as grounds for trying to cut them off from aid, and he’ll probably try to strong arm EU/NATO countries on that front too

It’s so, so tiresome that fucking zero journalistic outfits, after well over a decade of the fuckwit being a depressingly major politician, treat his extremely predictable and emblematic behaviors and motives as utter shocks every time they directly impact a situation.

You’re not allowed to be surprised by any of this at this point. If you are, you’re an idiot. If you’re a journalist that’s expressing surprise, you are, at best, an extremely useful idiot.