U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as U.S. Vice President JD Vance reacts at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 28, 2025.
Until US President Donald Trump and his deputy, JD Vance, publicly berated and humiliated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on February 28, 2025, one had to look back 64 years to find a moment nearly as dramatic.
On October 12, 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in a fit of rage, banged his shoe on a desk during a United Nations General Assembly session in New York. It was a piece of Cold War theatre, symbolising East-West tensions in a way no diplomatic event ever could.
