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riversedge

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Sat Oct 18, 2025, 01:38 AM Oct 2025

Trump Lets 'Biggest Loser' Star Pressure Zelensky About Making Concessions to Putin

So, we now have Lyndell TV as part of our Oval Office Press!!
I never heard of this RUDE person.




Lindell TV’s Cara Castronuova interrupted the Ukrainian president midway through his response.

The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T04:33:51.325724Z

Castronuova (far left) stands behind Zelensky during his White House meeting with President Trump on Friday. Zelensky has asked for new weapons to fight Russia.





Trump Lets ‘Biggest Loser’ Star Pressure Zelensky About Making Concessions to Putin
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Lindell TV’s Cara Castronuova interrupted the Ukrainian president midway through his response.


William Vaillancourt Published Oct. 18 2025 12:17AM EDT

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lets-biggest-loser-star-pressure-zelensky-about-making-concessions-to-putin/

President Donald Trump let a self-described supporter of his in the press pool repeatedly pressure the president of Ukraine about making “concessions” to his Russian counterpart.

Cara Castronuova, the former pro boxer and one-time celebrity fitness coach on the NBC show The Biggest Loser, was called on to ask a question Friday during a meeting between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky has asked for long-range Tomahawk missiles—something that Trump has appeared somewhat open to providing ahead of his planned meeting with Putin in a few weeks in Budapest, Hungary.

As part of her loaded question, Castronuova told Zelensky to his face that Americans “need our Tomahawks, too.”

“President Trump just brokered a peace deal in the Middle East that all Americans, both sides of the aisle, are very proud of,” she began. “But to meet that deal, both sides had to make concessions. Our president has stuck out his neck in many ways to make a peace deal for your war as well. What specific concessions are you willing to make to end this war with Russia? Will you give up joining NATO?”

Castronuova then decided to speak for about about 340 million people: “Americans have foreign war fatigue, and our president, as he said: we need our Tomahawk missiles, too.”
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Trump Lets 'Biggest Loser' Star Pressure Zelensky About Making Concessions to Putin (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2025 OP
So, what does Russia have on Castronuova? sakabatou Oct 2025 #1
Meh, I doubt they have would have had to pay that much for this has been fujiyamasan Oct 2025 #2
Yeah, it more accurate that she's just a Trump cultist. sakabatou Oct 2025 #3
Of COURSE we need them - how ELSE are we gonna blow Venezuelan fishing boats out of the water? Buns_of_Fire Oct 2025 #4
Or to disrupt NO KINGS rallies. no_hypocrisy Oct 2025 #5

fujiyamasan

(2,025 posts)
2. Meh, I doubt they have would have had to pay that much for this has been
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 01:57 AM
Oct 2025

It’s just Trump being a bullying ass hole as he’s always been. This Cara whatever the fuck her name is another hack that gets five minutes of fame for spewing some nonsense about a topic she knows absolutely nothing about. Putin doesn’t know who she is, but I’m sure he’s laughing his ass off, because Trump has been a very good and cheap investment. Who knows how she’s paid.

This is another case of, “bring another incredibly stupid and unqualified person to what should be a serious diplomatic meeting”. It’s like when he had Zuckerberg randomly show up in some national security meeting. This is more idiocracy in action.

Buns_of_Fire

(19,222 posts)
4. Of COURSE we need them - how ELSE are we gonna blow Venezuelan fishing boats out of the water?
Sat Oct 18, 2025, 02:13 AM
Oct 2025
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