Trump hails Czech deputy PM Petr Macinka for schooling Hillary Clinton at Munich event: 'Great job'

WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump showered praise on Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka for standing up to Hillary Clinton during a heated panel at the Munich Security Conference.

The clash saw Macinka push back forcefully against Clinton's criticisms of Trump, saying his policies were a necessary correction to liberal excesses that alienated everyday people.

"Czech Deputy PM Petr Macinka: Great job in your Debate against Hillary Clinton on various subjects, including her ridiculous views on Gender," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Say hello to everybody in your beautiful country! President DJT." 

The exchange took place during a discussion on the "State of the West."

Hillary Clinton's Munich meltdown

The confrontation unfolded Monday, Feb 16, on a high-profile panel at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Clinton spoke as a staunch defender of traditional Western alliances and launched a tirade against Trump, accusing him of betraying core values and undermining support for Ukraine amid its war with Russia.

Clinton declared that Trump "has betrayed the West, he’s betrayed human values, he’s betrayed the NATO charter, the Atlantic Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." She insisted any defense of his policies ignored efforts to "force Ukraine into a surrender deal" with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling such moves "shameful" and "corrupt to the nth degree."

Macinka seemed unfazed and responded by addressing Clinton's apparent animosity toward Trump. "First, I think you really don't like him," he observed calmly.

Clinton shot back, "You know, that is absolutely true. But not only do I not like him, but I don't like what he's actually doing to the United States and the world, and I think you should take a hard look at it if you think there is something good that will come of it."

Macinka argued that Trump's rise stemmed from policies that had drifted "too far from regular people, too far from reality." He pointed to cultural shifts as key factors in the backlash. "We saw the cancel culture... we saw the woke revolution, I don’t agree with the gender revolution, the climate alarmism," Macinka noted.

Petr Macinka takes on Hillary Clinton head-on

The discussion got even more heated when Macinka elaborated on gender views. "I think there are two genders... I think there is male and female and the rest probably is a social construct," he said.

Clinton challenged him by asking whether such positions justified abandoning Ukraine or weakening alliances. "But does that justify selling out the people of Ukraine... If that's what you're worried about," she said.

Macinka quipped, "I'm sorry that it makes you nervous."

Clinton replied, "It doesn't make me nervous; it makes me very, very unhappy."

At one point amid Clinton's repeated attempts to interject and hurl various labels at Trump, Macinka urged restraint in inflammatory rhetoric.

"This is something I don't really like that every day, every time I hear labeling someone as fascist or Nazism or whatever... I think we should... stop branding ideological opponents as 'public enemies,'" he argued, adding that such labels belonged to eras that "ended some 70 or 80 years ago."

Macinka later reflected on the exchange in an op-ed, noting he and Clinton "were speaking from two different realities" and that she "seemed uncomfortable with the truth."