Hoo boy, there was some heated back and forth taking place on social media over the weekend as former Obama adviser Susan Rice is getting hammered for her claims that the Zelensky SmackDown in the Oval Office™ Friday was all a setup by Team Trump.

As we reported, the Ukrainian president was cut down a notch or two (or three) when he disrespected the United States in the White House over President Trump’s efforts to ensure peace between Ukraine and Russia after three years of war.

Former National Security Adviser, Ambassador to the U.N., and Barack Obama acolyte Susan Rice, considered by many to be the epitome of the Deep State, weighed in Friday to proclaim that the whole thing was a setup by Team Trump and that the episode was an “an embarrassment for the United States on the world stage.”

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Former Obama Advisor Susan Rice Shows Where Her Loyalties Lie—Claims Zelensky Meltdown Was a 'Setup'

The Federalist’s editor in chief Mollie Hemingway was none too impressed by Rice’s message. In a long X post Saturday, she said Rice and other globalists pushed Zelensky in advance to make a scene:

Yesterday, Susan Rice said of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, "There is no question this was a set up." She revealed full knowledge of the mineral agreement, complained that it didn't include "concrete" security agrees (meaning, apparently, commitment of US troops on the ground if…

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 1, 2025

As I said, her post is long, but here is one of her key takeaways:

Zelensky repeatedly declined opportunities to sign the deal in Kyiv and Munich, and requested the meeting at the White House. It later came out that Rice and Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman may have been personally advising Zelensky to do this meeting in the way he did -- that they recommended him to be hostile and to try to goad Trump into blowing up.

But we’re just getting started here in this social media war. Rice fired back:

You clowns are up to the same old tired crap. When your guy screws up and royally embarrasses himself and the U.S., you try to change the subject and lie about a favorite target to distract and deflect.

For the record, I have never met Zelenskyy and never spoken to him. Ever.… https://t.co/UHJHL1jrZR

— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) March 1, 2025

For the record, I have never met Zelenskyy and never spoken to him. Ever. Or advised him or anybody around him. 

It’s a shame that you contend that it is in the U.S. national interest to sell out Ukraine and suck up to Putin.

Man, it’s getting hot in here. Enter Special Presidential Envoy Ric Grenell, who blasted Rice into next year with his post:

Your guy couldn’t even talk to Putin. For 3.5 years!

Your policies helped usher in a war in Ukraine, Gaza…and Rwanda if you remember.

And then you lied about Libya - it wasn’t caused by a video. You made that up….

Donald Trump handed you peace in the Middle East and Europe… https://t.co/r6VIc0gIIC

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) March 1, 2025

Donald Trump handed you peace in the Middle East and Europe - you handed us two wars. We see you.

Oof, that’s going to leave a mark.

Hemingway and Grenell are right to be critical of Susan Rice and Team Obama. She misled the nation about the 2012 al-Qaeda-affiliated attack on our embassy in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, saying it was “spontaneous” and was caused by a video. She’s been wrong on multiple subjects since, and now appears to be taking Zelensky’s side over America's.

The Obama years—along with his failed apologist policies—are long over.