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Pro-MAGA reporter Brian Glenn, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) boyfriend, claimed he received "thousands of death threats" after asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about his wardrobe at an Oval Office meeting last week.

On Monday, Glenn reflected on the meaning behind Zelensky's decision not to wear a suit in his meeting with President Donald Trump.

A conservative columnist observed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speak about one another "like an old married couple."

Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum appeared Monday morning on CNN to discuss his latest column for The Atlantic on last week's White House meeting between Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, which he argued represented a betrayal of American values even more treacherous than Alger Hiss.

On Monday morning, a grim-faced panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" had their first chance to weigh in on Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance teaming up and attacking Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in front of reporters late Friday.

After sharing clips of Vance and the president haranguing the leader of the war-torn nation, demanding thanks and fealty, co-host Joe Scarborough changed the focus to Secretary of State Marco Rubio who sat slumped on a couch during the meetingand failed to speak up after being a reliable ally of Ukraine since Russia's unprovoked invasion three years ago.

Donald Trump on Sunday attacked his former adviser, and asked Americans to "spend less time worrying about Putin."

Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who served as Mr. Trump's national security adviser during his first administration, said over the weekend that Russian President Vladimir Putin was cheering after Trump and his number two, J.D. Vance, yelled at Ukraine's leader while in the Oval Office.

A senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development was placed on leave this weekend after releasing a letter in which he states that the number of deaths from Donald Trump's policies is "not known."

The career official, Nick Enrich, outlined what he called the U.S. government’s “failure” to provide life-saving aid around the world because of Trump's political appointees, according to a Sunday report from the Washington Post.

Reacting to House Speaker Mike Johnson suggesting Ukraine needs a new leader in the wake of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's dust up in the Oval Office, one Republican spoke out forcefully against GOP lawmakers.

Johnson, a fierce ally to Donald Trump, recently said, "Either he [Zelensky] needs to come to his senses and come back to the table in gratitude or someone else needs to lead the country to do that."

Ridicule of Secretary of State Marco Rubio for sitting slumped on a couch in the Oval Office as Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance berated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky last Friday has not abated and MSNBC's Jen Psaki got in her shots on Sunday afternoon.

Rubio, who has been on the receiving end of widespread mockery after his couch posture was memorialized in hundreds of memes, has also been castigated for being a huge supporter of Zelensky as well as Ukraine, until a switch was flipped when Trump picked him for his Cabinet.

That has put the former GOP senator from Florida in the unenviable position of defending not only Trump's obvious hostility towards the war-torn country, preferring Vladimir Putin and Russia instead, but Rubio's own past comments about the three-year-old war are now under the microscope.

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As Psaki explained, before sharing a supercut of Rubio's pro-Ukraine comments, "Remember, this is a guy who, as a senator and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, used to be a pretty staunch Russia hawk. The Rubio we used to know would surely would have had a lot to say about all of this. There's really no better way to show all of you that than using Rubio's own words to rebut some of Trump's most outrageous statements from the past two weeks."

Following sharing the clips, she added, "What has changed, it seems, is you, Marco Rubio. Because Senator Rubio is now Secretary Rubio in the second Trump administration and what he claimed to believe for years is completely at odds with the administration's current posture."

"It's not clear whether he even cares," he MSNBC host suggested. "I mean, I can't read his mind, obviously, but maybe he's given up on America as a leader on the global stage. Maybe he's given up on opposing authoritarian regimes, given up on democracy and defending alliances like NATO. But if Secretary Rubio does still believe even just one iota of what he said as a senator over the many years, that has good reason to feel uncomfortable right now."

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An impassioned defense of Donald Trump's conduct last Friday where he berated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky as "disrespectful" and demanded a thank you was swiftly and brutally dismantled on CNN on Sunday morning.

During the panel segment at the end of "State of the Union," former Trump communications adviser Erin Maguire claimed that Elon Musk doing a bang-up job rooting out fraud and waste, while taking heat off Trump, before she moved on to the contentious Oval Office press availability that shocked the world.

According to Maguire, "There needed to be limits to what we were doing with Ukraine, so again, him being the foil there, setting the stage for Trump to be able to say, 'Yeah, actually, that's right. You should be more appreciative about what we've been able to do to help you maintain your sovereignty and fight off the Russians'. So both of these can be great foils for Trump to stand there and cut the deal and make the government small."

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'Well, but there is no deal when it comes to Ukraine," CNN commentator Xochitl Hinojosa pointed out.

"Actually the only person, well, the only person who benefited from the outburst on Friday was Vladimir Putin," she added as Maguire smirked. "It did not benefit Ukraine, it did not benefit America, and I know that the White House likes to take a victory lap on that."

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Secretary of Steve Marco Rubio rapidly yelled over host George Stephanopoulos to defend President Donald Trump's decision to abruptly end a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about Russia's war in Ukraine.

During a Sunday morning interview on ABC's This Week program, Rubio grew increasingly agitated as Stephanopoulos pressed him on Trump's actions.

Fox News host Shannon Bream confronted Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard because Russia's government was "celebrating" after U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly ended Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's White House visit.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream noted that 81% of Americans distrusted Russian President Vladimir Putin despite Trump's continued "trust" of him.