{"id":1496,"date":"2023-02-22T09:11:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2023-02-22T09:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T14:11:40","slug":"america-first-or-america-last-as-trump-heads-to-ohio-biden-goes-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"America First or America Last? \u2013 As Trump Heads To Ohio, Biden Goes to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While former President Donald Trump and his campaign associates make hasty preparations to rush the 45th president, his personal team, and security detail to East Palestine, Ohio to meet with residents and community leaders, President Joe Biden stepped comfortably onto Air Force One. Officially Biden was bound for Warsaw, Poland, Monday. But unbeknownst to the American people he was instead\u00a0<em>en route<\/em>\u00a0to Kyiv in war-torn Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why was Biden flying halfway around the world into an active warzone? Was he escorting (yet another) shipment of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/watch-rep-matt-gaetz-delivers-his-own-state-of-the-union-torching-biden-on-his-failed-leadership-on-the-world-stage-a-grifters-gotta-grift\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American hardware<\/a>&nbsp;and ordinance our military can scarcely afford to lose? Did his coming herald a bold new peace initiative to bring Russia back to the negotiating table?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nope. It was a photo op.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, President Biden is in Kyiv to reaffirm America\u2019s unwavering commitment to Ukraine\u2019s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity.<br><br>The United States of America will stand with the Ukrainian people for as long as it takes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1IJuCcsVJd\">pic.twitter.com\/1IJuCcsVJd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1627644745735438340?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In colloquial terms, it was a \u201cflex.\u201d As Biden is seen walking casually with President\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/breaking-trump-alone-calls-for-peace-biden-escalates-to-what-he-called-world-war-iii-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volodimir Zelensky<\/a>\u00a0whilst air-raid sirens sound in the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden visited Ukraine before the war zone of East Palestine, Ohio just and hour from DC. <br><br>You will never seen a more intentionally insulting move by a US President.<br><br>This cannot be understated. <br><br>Cravenly cruel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XZVCcBc1Yw\">pic.twitter.com\/XZVCcBc1Yw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1627661402843348993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMTG\/status\/1627658906418745346\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0her incredulous response to the tone-deaf trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBiden&nbsp;didn\u2019t go to East Palestine, Ohio on President\u2019s Day. He went to&nbsp;Ukraine, a NON-NATO nation, whose leader is an actor and is apparently now commanding our United States military to world war. We must impeach this America Last fool before it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unannounced detour comes just a day after Biden stirred massive controversy by publicly vowing that the American people would be paying billions more in taxpayer funds to \u201callow pensions and social support to be paid to the Ukrainian people so they have something, something in their pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/report-president-trump-to-visit-contaminated-ohio-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump, Jr.<\/a>\u00a0voiced the disgust and disbelief of millions of Americans when he wrote, \u201cAmericans are struggling at home and Joe\u00a0Biden\u00a0is thinking about making sure we cover Ukrainian citizen\u2019s\u00a0pensions. You literally can\u2019t make this shit up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Americans are struggling at home and Joe Biden is thinking about making sure we cover Ukrainian citizen\u2019s pensions. You literally can\u2019t make this shit up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZSN18ewvzl\">pic.twitter.com\/ZSN18ewvzl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1627676387581607937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This move of course is happening while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/24\/politics\/debt-ceiling-yellen-extraordinary-measure\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen<\/a>&nbsp;takes \u201cextraordinary measures,\u201d to keep the U.S. solvent. In late January Yellen warned that a failure to resolve the budget crisis in Congress could precipitate a \u201cglobal financial crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/20\/politics\/yellen-amanpour-debt-limit-cnntv\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>&nbsp;she warned,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf that happened, our borrowing costs would increase and every American would see that their borrowing costs would increase as well,\u201d Yellen said. \u201cOn top of that, a failure to make payments that are due, whether it\u2019s the bondholders or to Social Security recipients or to our military, would undoubtedly cause a recession in the US economy and could cause a global financial crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But while former President Trump journeys to Ohio, a decision that many suspect pushed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reverse its denial of aid to the state, Biden is throwing another few billion on the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within an hour of the news breaking about Trump\u2019s trip on Friday, FEMA announced the reversal thus painting a correlation that many find hard to ignore. The appearance that President Biden would rather spend his days in Ukraine than in the American heartland likely sends a bad message to the swing voters in the Rust Belt who got him elected in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/which-president-one-american-one-globalist-trump-heads-to-ohio-while-biden-goes-to-kyiv\/\">https:\/\/dcenquirer.com\/which-president-one-american-one-globalist-trump-heads-to-ohio-while-biden-goes-to-kyiv\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While former President Donald Trump and his campaign associates make hasty preparations to rush the 45th president, his personal team, and security detail to East Palestine, Ohio to meet with residents and community leaders, President Joe Biden stepped comfortably onto Air Force One. Officially Biden was bound for Warsaw, Poland, Monday. But unbeknownst to the American people he was instead\u00a0en route\u00a0to Kyiv in war-torn Ukraine. Why was Biden flying halfway around the world into an active warzone? Was he escorting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}