Well, that escalated quickly.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t just clap back — he unloaded a verbal freight train on CBS’s Margaret Brennan, and for good reason. During a jaw-clenching exchange on Face the Nation, Brennan trotted out one of the media’s favorite fairy tales: that President Donald Trump is some kind of diplomatic schoolyard bully who’s going to pressure poor President Zelenskyy into surrendering Ukraine like a kid handing over his lunch money.
Rubio’s response? “That’s not true.” Translation: enough with the nonsense.
But did Brennan stop? Of course not. She doubled down, painting European leaders as bodyguards for Zelenskyy, supposedly parachuting into the White House to protect him from Trump’s intimidation tactics. Because obviously, a world leader fighting a war for three years needs CBS to defend his fragile feelings.
Rubio wasn’t having it.
He cut through the spin like a buzzsaw. These European leaders weren’t rescuing Zelenskyy — they were invited. By Trump. By the administration. In other words, this was diplomacy, not detention.
And Rubio made it clear: they’ve had “a dozen meetings” with Zelenskyy. They’ve been coordinating for weeks with European partners. They didn’t suddenly wake up in a panic and book a flight to Washington because Margaret Brennan saw a scary tweet.
HOLY CRAP! CBS’ Margaret Brennan thought she knew more about foreign policy and the Russia-Ukraine negotiations than Marco Rubio.
She didn’t. He put her in her place. Rubio is a masterclass.
“No it isn’t, that’s not why…That’s not true…No.”pic.twitter.com/ZpZASCsFYQ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 17, 2025
HOLY CRAP! CBS’ Margaret Brennan thought she knew more about foreign policy and the Russia-Ukraine negotiations than Marco Rubio.But that’s the thing about legacy media — facts are optional.
The real story? Trump and Putin met in Alaska. Yes, a red carpet. Yes, a handshake. No, it wasn’t a coronation. It was diplomacy. It was negotiation. It was a peace summit. But instead of even attempting to understand that global stability sometimes requires grown-up conversations with unsavory characters, the press melted down over optics.
And here’s where the plot really thickens: Brennan accused Trump of honoring Putin. Because he didn’t scold him on the tarmac. Because there wasn’t a CNN-approved lecture baked into the handshake. Because he dared to treat a geopolitical meeting like — brace yourself — a geopolitical meeting.
Rubio explained the obvious to ABC’s Martha Raddatz: Trump greeted Putin cordially because that’s how peace negotiations work. You don’t end wars by scowling. You don’t broker deals by throwing tantrums for the cameras. But try telling that to a media class that thinks international conflict should be resolved via hashtags and hashtags only.
This is the same press that shrugged when Biden left Americans behind in Afghanistan. The same folks who yawned through his bumbling at every major summit. But Trump? He tries to stop a war, and suddenly they’re all geopolitical scholars crying foul over rug color and handshake angles.
Let’s be real. What this is really about is control. The legacy media cannot handle that Trump is reshaping the narrative — again. They hate that he’s sitting down with world leaders and not sticking to their carefully scripted role for him as “unhinged dictator in a red tie.”
They’d rather frame a peace negotiation as a betrayal than admit Trump might actually end a war their preferred president helped escalate.
Because if Trump succeeds here? If he pulls off a deal that saves lives, secures borders, and ends a costly conflict?
That’s game over for their narrative.
And they know it.
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