Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a disastrous meeting with US President Donald Trump, having made five key mistakes according to a psychiatrist.
The Ukrainian leader's confrontation with Trump and his Vice President in the Oval Office sent shockwaves through the Western alliance. Many of the Republicans supporters backed Trump, calling Mr Zelensky ungrateful for American support while many European leaders shared their support for the Ukrainian President.
Several missteps appeared to have been made by both parties with the Americans clearly looking to goad Mr Zelensky. But a psychiatrist has shared his assessment of the Oval Office exchange, highlighting several mistakes made by Mr Zelensky.
Mr Zelensky's initial mistake, according to Dr Raj Persaud, a consultant psychiatrist at Harley Street, was his decision not to wear a suit. By choosing to look as though he came from a war zone, which he did, Mr Zelensky appeared to rely on his military dress code to tell the story of Ukraine's dire situation - which Mr Trump did not take kindly to.
"So, if Zelensky thought his usual tactics were going to buy him any emotional capital, he was mistaken," he said. "Indeed this presumption had probably already annoyed the complex character that is Donald Trump."
The Ukrainian president's decision to challenge Mr Trump appeared to be another huge error Dr Persaud added. Writing in The Express, he added: "Yet challenge is precisely what this Ukrainian leader did, and he reaped the reward of what psychiatrists refer to as a clinical condition known amongst therapists as 'narcissistic rage.'"
Dr Persaud said another "error" made by Mr Zelensky was that all those who defended Ukraine had become "irrelevant" and that instead he had to deal with the the main man in the room at that moment. He claimed Mr Zelensky was also "clearly wrestling" with his own psychological demons, including a sense of panic that deals were going on behind the scenes and that he was going to be left behind.
He then challenged Vice President JD Vance on how anyone could reach any agreement with Vladimir Putin, knowing the Russia despot had reversed on all previous deals. "As Zelensky attempted to explain, with evidence from deals going back to 2014, Trump interrupted and questioned whether it was 2015, but when Zelensky repeated it was 2014, Trump commented that he wasn’t in the White House then," Dr Persaud said.
But Mr Zelensky did not pick up on the hint left by Mr Trump that every conversation is actually about him. The consultant psychiatrist added that Mr Zelensky needed to know how to play the role of a grateful submissive and compounded his "clinical naivety" by appearing in a prior scheduled TV interview "where he refused to apologise for what had happened, despite being invited to repeatedly."
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