It’s in the article. A journalist asked a long leading question which was a critisism of Trump and then asked if Zelenskiy felt like a scapegoat for everything.
The journalist basically already said everything worth saying about it, so there was no point in answering it.
I hate that kind of journalism, because it’s usually done in an attempt to make the interviewee admit to something they never stated themselves, or to drag out whatever point the journalist wants to make themselves in the first place.
I believe it started in sports news where the players are usually very brief, so the journalists invented this way of describing everything that happened only to end with a redundant question like “…this must be very important for your team?” or similar.
Anyway, I guess Zelenskiy was able to use it by utilizing his experience as a comedian and not answering with anything but a smile, which the audience caught as an acknowledgment of everything they were thinking themselves. Like, it’s all implied and understood, no more words are necessary.
They’re not laughing at Trump, they’re laughing at Zelensky’s reaction.
And what was it that he reacted to?
It’s in the article. A journalist asked a long leading question which was a critisism of Trump and then asked if Zelenskiy felt like a scapegoat for everything.
The journalist basically already said everything worth saying about it, so there was no point in answering it.
I hate that kind of journalism, because it’s usually done in an attempt to make the interviewee admit to something they never stated themselves, or to drag out whatever point the journalist wants to make themselves in the first place.
I believe it started in sports news where the players are usually very brief, so the journalists invented this way of describing everything that happened only to end with a redundant question like “…this must be very important for your team?” or similar.
Anyway, I guess Zelenskiy was able to use it by utilizing his experience as a comedian and not answering with anything but a smile, which the audience caught as an acknowledgment of everything they were thinking themselves. Like, it’s all implied and understood, no more words are necessary.