The Associated Press is currently suing the Trump White House and claiming they're a "global, independent, non-partisan news organization."
Their latest attempt to prove support among the Ukrainian people for President Vladimir Zelenskyy over President Donald Trump was so laughably lame as to induce widespread mockery. In the wake of the contentious White House meeting between Zelensky and Trump, AP put together a video that was intended to show general support among Ukrainians for the stances taken by their president.
The problem for AP in making their case for Zelensky was that they used only two, count 'em, TWO Ukrainian interviewees. They were also two of the sources offering glowing praise for the Ukrainian leader in a story by AP's Justin Spike headlined "Ukrainians rally around Zelenskyy as defender of national interest after Oval Office blowout."
A "nonpartisan" news agency wouldn't line up a parade of Ukrainians to praise Zelenskyy and rail against Trump. The two sources on video also gushed in the AP story:
But many Ukrainians on Friday seemed unfazed by the blowout between Zelenskyy and Trump, expressing a sense that the Ukrainian leader had stood up for their country’s dignity and interests by firmly maintaining his stance in the face of chiding from some of the world’s most powerful men.
Nataliia Serhiienko, 67, a retiree in Kyiv, said she thinks Ukrainians approve of their president’s performance in Washington, “because Zelenskyy fought like a lion.”
...“We are striving for democracy, and we are met with total disrespect, toward our warriors, our soldiers, and the people of our country,” said [Artem] Vasyliev, a native of Russian-occupied Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.
Vasyliev criticized the U.S. president for what he said was a failure to recognize the human cost of Russia’s invasion, saying Trump “doesn’t understand that people are dying, that cities are being destroyed, people are suffering, mothers, children, soldiers.”
“He cannot understand this, he is just a businessman. For him, money is sacred,” he said.
That was it as you can see in this video:
This very lazy attempt by AP to create the idea of animosity in Ukraine towards Trump was so ridiculous as to provoke widespread mockery by YouTube commentators as you can see by these responses:
What was that? The AP interviews two people drinking in the middle of the night? Are they serious?
The AP interviewed 42 people and these 2 expressed the opinion the AP wanted to promote.
Two persons. You want two person to represent the whole country. Wow you really have lost your way AP
lol they could only find 2 people that agree with AP’s take that it’s Trump’s fault
My goodness the quality of Always Propaganda has really degraded the last month or so. Guess losing all that USAID money has had an affect.
It looks like AP needs to brush up on the devious art of creating effective fake news propaganda. Perhaps its time for them to conduct a refresher course on this topic. A good locale for AP students of such lessons can be found down by the Gulf Of America.