‘We Know That Boy Ain’t Right’: James Carville Gives Wild Theory Over Reason Behind Trump’s Oval Office Showdown

Democratic strategist James Carville made a bizarre claim Friday in a video suggesting that one of the reasons behind President Donald Trump’s reaction to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office could be syphilis.

During a meeting at the Oval Office with Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Zelenskyy and other officials to discuss the U.S.’ potential mineral deal with Ukraine, tensions escalated after Zelenskyy publicly criticized the U.S. for not attempting to halt Russia. At one point during the discussion, Trump interrupted Zelenskyy, telling the Ukrainian president he was gambling with the start of “World War III.”

In a Politicon YouTube episode titled “James Carville: What Just Happened in the Oval Office,” the Democratic strategist began by calling Trump names and listing his tendencies as he questioned what could have caused Trump’s pushback against Zelenskyy.

“What was the cause of this? A man who’s obviously for a long time been in decline, who’s fat, who doesn’t sleep at night, who eats nothing but hamburgers and crap, who’s almost 80 years old. There’s a tendency to just ascribe it to the normal process of being overweight and having a bad diet and lack of sleep and accumulation of age. But I’m not sure that explains something about it today. I’m a guy, I like to ask questions. I like to speculate on things. That’s why we have this YouTube channel,” Carville said.

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“That’s why you viewers and listeners, that’s why we get along as well as we do. I want to see the possibility that maybe I had a point considerably earlier than this when I pointed out on this very channel where Trump had red splotches on his hand, which I was told by any number of medical professionals that when you see that condition, the first thing that you suspect is syphilis,” Carville added.