DIESELGATE | Day 223 | Trump dumps Zelensky | Houthis hit Saudi airport | France and teenage kicks

George Galloway (0:00)

Little Zelensky is in the dumpster. I told you, we bet everything on a man with no cards. And the energy ceasefire has been accepted by the Ukraine. There'll be no more attacks on Russian refineries, which according to Donald Trump, have contributed to the chronic shortage of diesel fuel in the Western world, which has led to record prices. Russia has not spoken yet on that point, but it's all happening. Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are going to execute a paraplegic Palestinian man by firing squad, just so you can watch him die.

And it was the Russians what done it. They interfered in the Brexit referendum and we learned 12 years after the Brexit referendum. Do they mean me? Was it me?

I don't know. We'll examine it in the course of the next two hours. Stay tuned. It's the Mother of All Talk Shows.

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George Galloway (1:27)

Look, I've got no issue with the United States' domestic internal politics of executing the occasional prisoner, though I have to wonder whether keeping someone on death row for 13 years does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment as specified in the American Constitution. But the man who murdered 13 of his fellow soldiers who were headed for Afghanistan to murder, his co-religionists in Afghanistan was kept alive, though as a paraplegic. So we have the spectacle to look forward to of a man in a wheelchair, a Palestinian, Muslim, in a wheelchair, being executed in a firing squad that will be live streamed. Well, it's a new departure of the American justice system. That's all I'm saying. And I'm not sure it will have quite the effect on potential terrorists in the world that Hegseth and Trump imagine that it will. The idea that it is a deterrence to a suicide bomber, a deterrence to a jihadist who is determined to go and take as many with him as he goes will be somehow deterred, will be somehow disencouraged by the entire nation of the United States. Actually, presumably, the whole world will be able to watch this live stream. I'm only surprised that Trump didn't do it as pay-per-view. He could have used, I don't know, Trump coins that you have to buy in order to watch a man die by firing squad. But that's the least important news as it turns out of the week. First of all, Donald Trump made a deal with Vladimir Putin to buy tens of millions of barrels of Russian diesel so as to depress the price of diesel at the pump in order to mitigate at least the disastrous midterm elections that the Republican Party is facing. And lo and behold, this very day, the diesel arrived, which given it takes three weeks to sail from Russia to the United States, must mean that this deal was made at least three weeks ago. So somebody's been lying, somebody's been on the telephone without any public declaration of the fact. The fact that the diesel oil concerned represents in the first instance, at least 13 hours of America's actual diesel usage seems to have been lost in translation. Everyone is exultant if they are a supporter of President Trump and if they are feeling the pain at the petrol pump and dismayed and furious if they are Democrats. The Democrats, of course, being the other side of the coin, the other cheek of the same warmongering arse in the United States, are still gung-ho for Zelensky to whom I turn next. This diesel deal, Dieselgate we are calling it, was followed quickly by a remarkable, robust and coruscating denouncement, denouncing of President Zelensky by President Trump and then perhaps just as tellingly by Elon Musk the President's brain.

Donald Trump says that Vladimir Zelensky has lost the war, lost millions of people, lost 30 percent of his territory. Not much is familiar. He told them that in the Oval Office when he told them he had no cards, even though he continued to bet on Zelensky, at least through intelligence sharing and to encourage the European members of NATO to pay through the nose with money their citizens did not have and had to borrow in order to do so American weapons that they could give to Zelensky, but he went much further this time. He didn't just say that he'd lost 30 percent of Ukraine. He didn't just say that he'd lost over a million people. At one point Trump was claiming two million people dead on the Ukrainian side. He said that Ukraine needed a new president. He said it was time for Zelensky to go.

And when Elon Musk backed this both verbally and on his platform X, it surely spelt the end for the narco-fuehrer in Kiev, the thief of Kiev. His face talcum-powdered was said to be hysterical and deep in depression. Because even if he isn't a scholar, we know he's an actor, we know he plays the piano with his penis, we know that he plays all kinds of camp characters on the stage. We don't know how much history he knows, but someone in Ukraine will have reminded him of the fate of the Diem brothers in South Vietnam at the hands of their one-time never-ending generous benefactors in the United States. When you outlive your usefulness to the United States of America, you are dealt with in short shrift. Ask the Shah of Persia, who wandered the world looking for somewhere that would take him in, finally, having to make do with exile in Cairo, having been an American puppet for decades, having done everything that the United States asked of him. When he outlived his usefulness, he died like a wandering dog.