A forthcoming book chronicling the first year of Donald Trump’s second administration alleges that his treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, made a series of disparaging remarks about Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of the Ukrainian president’s visit to the White House early last year.
Regime Change was co-authored by the New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, based on “hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded rooms,” according to the Simon & Schuster website. It is set to be published on Tuesday, June 23.
According to excerpts published by The Guardian on Saturday, Bessent referred to Zelensky as a “little f****r” and a “special-needs child for the Europeans,” and called him “Mr. Bean on crack.”
Projecting their own insecurities onto other people seems to be a hallmark of this administration. I would argue it’s a guilty conscience perhaps if I thought they had one.