As expected the reaction from mainstream pundits and Ukraine's backers to Trump's Wednesday post decrying Zelensky as a "dictator" who "better move fast" on striking a peace deal and holding elections or else "he won't have a country left" has been swift and fierce.

The 'fact-checkers' are also out in force, for example with the NY Times quickly putting out a piece entitled "Trump Falsely Says Ukraine Started the War With Russia. Here Is What to Know." They want the public to know why "the country isn't holding elections." And below is what CNN's frontpage is currently displaying, reviving the old debunked 'Russiagate' talking points of supposedly 'parroting Russian talking points':

Many are using this moment to draw a line in the sand, describing Trump as in a state of "madness" and saying it's time for the world to unambiguously side with Zelensky, as did this German/Greens party member of European Parliament:

And Puck News' co-founder Julia Ioffe is dumbfounded and outraged: "What I cannot understand is why the American establishment and its institutions are folding so quickly. What are you people so afraid of? You never even had gulags," she wrote in an emotional appeal on X.