President Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance shouted at the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a wild meeting in an oval office in the White House on Friday, which was to announce the partnership.
Most of the 45-minute meeting went as expected, and Trump and Zelensky announced that they were planning to sign a contract for Ukraine to share natural resources with the United States in exchange for further support against Russia invasion.
But the last 10 minutes of the meeting turned into a screaming match rarely seen in front of cameras and reporters in an oval office.
At some point, Vance said that Zelensky was “disregarded”, trying to press the USA more support, because Trump has commented about the “dictator” over the past week and undermined the role of Vladimir Putin in the conflict.
Zelensky said that while the influence of their conflict with Russia did not reach the United States, in the future, in the form of emboldened Putin. This remark seemed to irritate Trump.
“Don’t tell us what we will feel,” Trump started. “We are trying to solve the problem … You don’t have the opportunity to dictate what we feel.”
“You are not in a very good position now,” added Trump. “You don’t have cards now. You start to have cards with us. “
Zelensky’s visit to Pennsylvania in September appeared during the meeting
“Have you ever said during the whole meeting?” Vance asked Zelensky before he claimed that the Ukrainian president went to Pennsylvania and “conducted a campaign for the opposition” during the presidential campaign in 2024.
Zelensky went to Pennsylvania, but he did not run a campaign against Trump or his democratic opponent, Kamali Harris. Instead, in September he met with Governor of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro at the Scron Army Ammunition Power Plant, which produces metal missiles with a immense caliber, which is used by Ukraine to fight Russian invasion.
Republicans questioned the meeting, claiming that it was a visit to the campaign for Harris just over a month before the election. Chairman of the House Rep. Supervisory Committee James Comer (R., Ky.), He opened an investigation into travel, but since then there was no further updates.
When the conversation transformed into Trump and Vance, hiding Zelensky, the Ukrainian ambassador Oxana Markarova was seen how he was holding his head in his hands.
In the behind schedule Friday afternoon, Shapiro issued a statement condemned to treat Zelelensky by Trump and Vance in the oval office and claims that it had exposed the US.
“The oval office should be a place where we develop American values ​​- not where we withdraw from them,” said Shapiro. “When the president and vice president today attacked President Zelenskyy, they served to undermine America’s security and security and our national security interests. I support the diplomatic end of this war. Achieving this requires fair counting of the one who started the war and who the aggressor is, and there is only one answer to this question: Russia. “
The tense meeting ended in joking Trump: “It will be great on television.”
The press conference scheduled for a later Friday afternoon was dismissed, and the mineral agreement was not signed before the departure of Zelensky, said the White House.
Trump said in a statement after an oval office that the Ukrainian leader “was not ready for peace.”
“It’s amazing, which results from emotions, and I decided that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he believes that our commitment gives him a great advantage in negotiations,” Trump said in a statement. “He can come back when he is ready for peace.”
In social media, Zelensky thanked Trump and the USA for support against Russian aggression, writing: “Ukraine needs a fair and lasting peace, and we work exactly on it.”
Zelensky remains planned for an interview with the Fox News Bret Baier host, which will be broadcast during Special report at 18:00
Reaction to the match of the screaming Trump-Zelensky
French President Emmanuel Macron, who improved Trump for facilitate in Europe in Ukraine in the White House at the beginning of this week, told journalists in Portugal on Friday “We were all right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago and continue this” and continue it “and continue it” and continue it. According to the translation by the Associated Press.
“There is an aggressor, which is Russia, and the people attacked, i.e. Ukraine,” added Macron.
Other leaders in Europe have committed themselves to standing at Ukraine, with leaders from Spain, Sweden, Germany, Moldova, Poland and Estonia, offering support for Zelensky.
“It’s time for Europe to increase. We do not have to wait for something else in a statement, “wrote Margus Tsahkna, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. “Europe has sufficient resources, including frozen acts of Russia to enable Ukraine to continue the fight.”
Several Republicans called the tone of the president’s meeting from Zelensky. Rep. Don Bacon (R., Idaho) called this “a bad day for American foreign policy”, while representative Mike Lawler (R., NY) wrote in social media: “The outflow of this public view was a disaster – especially for Ukraine.”
Dmitry Medvedev, a former President of Russia, who is currently the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, praised Trump for giving Zelensky a “fierce complaint”, according to the Associated Press.
Senator Lindsay Graham (R., SC), who was a heartfelt supporter of Ukraine during the conflict with Russia, said he was “devastated” by a start in the White House.
During the interview at Fox News on Friday afternoon, Graham said that he had met Zalensky earlier in the morning and said that his advice to Ukrainian presidents was to “be grateful” to Trump. Instead, it transformed into a screaming match, which Graham described as a “complete disaster.”
“Question for me:” [Zelensky] Exercised in the eyes of Americans? ” – said Graham, later adding in an interview:” Zelensky will either have to change or leave. “
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