Trump has used the Oval Office meeting as an ambush to make the American people believe that Ukraine is ungrateful and does not deserve U.S. support. In the days leading up to the meeting, POTUS has consistently called for new elections and slandered the democratically elected president of Ukraine, calling him a dictator. All of this was designed to discredit and ultimately remove the only person standing in the way of closer relations with Russia: President Zelenskyy.