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Volodymyr Zelensky

Foreign · 640 mentions, 580 stance-bearing, last 30 days
Net favorability (reach × intensity weighted)
Neutral+0.2

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Most favorable quotes

“30] [SPEAKER_03] The Congress should invite Mark Carney to deliver an address to the American people. Through their elected representatives under the Capitol dome that Lincoln insisted be built during the height of Civil War. The greatest act of optimism in history. The greatest man of this age. Bar none. Is President Zelensky. He is a giant. [SPEAKER_03] And the Democratic Congress should invite him to come to the United States. The Democratic Congress should invite the American Pope. To come speak before the Congress and the people of the United States. Congress has its own prerogatives. It has its”

LThe Warning with Steve Schmidt10/17/2026favorability +5.0▶ 31:15

“ry. My country stands for liberal democracy. [SPEAKER_02] And I mean, look at America in Ukraine and Russia right now. You know, this is a week when the president of the United States sided with Vladimir Putin. I would say one of the worst dictators in the world right now over Volodymyr Zelensky, who is defending his democracy. Like, it's shameful. [SPEAKER_10] It is shameful. [SPEAKER_01] So on that note, I mean, even though Donald Trump says he may run for a third term, he's not going. I mean, he can't. Right. So we're going to have a c”

LMorning Joe10/16/2026favorability +4.5▶ 32:25

“well as going against their broader geopolitical theory of like the great powers decide little powers submit. I mean, it's all mealy and dialogue. It's all Thucydides. It's like the strong do what they can, the weak do, you know, the weak suffer what they must. Yeah. David, by the way, Zelensky kind of like a heroic, brave image of masculinity standing up against, you know, the destruction of his country by a larger foreign invader. But they chose not to because you could imagine if you went back to the to the an earlier age of Republican greatness as they conceived it. You would expect them all to b”

LPolitical Gabfest10/15/2026favorability +3.5▶ 33:49

“y is willing to hold elections. [SPEAKER_03] He said so himself in the last 24, 48 hours. He said if we get 60 days ceasefire so we can hold free and fair elections, democracy, they have to be able to hold elections in a reasonable way that he would be happy to hold elections. So again, Zelensky is ready to make a deal. He's fighting for his people. He's fighting to preserve lives. And it's Putin who was the attacker here, the aggressor, and that needs to be held accountable. [SPEAKER_10] David Frum for The Atlantic injects also the possibility that this opens the door”

LDeadline: White House10/12/2026favorability +3.5▶ 39:05

“, have been laughing all the way to the bank, [SPEAKER_05] making a killing, fleecing this country to no end. And the one thing that we could do when it comes to the battle for democracy on the world stage is to help the Ukrainian people, to help the people of Ukraine, to help Volodymyr Zelensky fight this brave battle to stand up against the Russians. [SPEAKER_05] And I honestly would love to get Elon Musk in an interview session and some sort of back and forth to ask him, what becomes of Ukraine if you just hand it over to the Russians? We've seen what they've been ca”

LThe Jim Acosta Show10/15/2026favorability +3.5▶ 58:32

Most critical quotes

“reportedly in the audience for Donald Trump's speech. Will he call him up on stage? Will Trump be meeting with the Iranians? Trump met with the Islamic terrorists yesterday, but it was just the mayor of New York. And so perhaps we'll have Donald Trump meeting next with a war criminal. Oh, wait, that would be Volodymyr Zelensky. [SPEAKER_04] Maybe we can get the Iranian meeting and get it all done with. We have the monster moment where we just have peace in our world and we negotiate it all together. It feels like something big is happening. It feels like something big is on the horizon. Maybe our sens”

RThe Benny Show9/23/2026favorability -4.5▶ 0:56

“of the standard applied to every other country except America. I think you've heard about the oil deal with Russia. It's a big deal. It's huge quantities of oil that will be coming into our country, and I want to thank President Putin, to be honest with you. But the Ukrainians don't thank President Putin. They attack Zelensky. What do we do, man? Who does that? Who does that like Donald Trump, or J.D. Bond, or Zelensky? He's bad. He's a bad guy. Screw him. I hate it. He doesn't keep up with us. He doesn't do what I want him to do. So, was he Hitler? Yes, I think you're right. There are some historical parallels here, but none of th”

LHasanAbi10/13/2026favorability -4.5source

“send us millions and millions of barrels of oil. And it's diesel. That's what we really need. [SPEAKER_09] Critics of the Russia diesel deal said could prolong the war in Ukraine because it's given an epidemic. [SPEAKER_05] Well, I look at it differently. Zelensky could have settled this war many times. Many, many times. And he chooses not to. And he wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel. Because Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world. And we told him, do whatever”

MMeet the Press10/12/2026favorability -4.0▶ 3:04

“ensky, so maybe we have an interest here, right? Putin turned right around [SPEAKER_09] and cut us a deal for diesel when we wanted it, did he not? Yeah. Yeah. Both of them are going to take our money if we're willing to give it to them. These people are all the same. They're all alike. Zelensky would do everything Putin is doing if he had the power to do so. He suspended elections. He's not any different fundamentally. These cultures are very similar. A major significant portion of Ukraine voted to join Russia several years ago. They could have cut the deal or they just give that part [00:26:42.290 -”

RSteve Deace Show10/12/2026favorability -4.0▶ 26:12

“dd Blanche on that, so that'd be a question for Todd Blanche, but a warrant was served today. [SPEAKER_10] President Trump is growing frustrated once again with Ukraine announcing a deal struck with Russian President Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel and saying this about Vladimir Zelensky. [SPEAKER_03] You know what I suggest? I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals that for some reason he never does. And let me go a step further. If I were president, you wouldn't have ever had that war. That war would have never”

RSteve Deace Show10/12/2026favorability -3.5▶ 0:55