White House talks break down as Trump accuses Zelenskyy of ‘disrespecting’ US
White House talks between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy over ending the war between Moscow and Kyiv have broken down after the US president said his Ukrainian counterpart had “disrespected” America.
The dramatic and premature conclusion to the summit came after the two leaders clashed even before the start of their formal meeting, as the Ukrainian president’s bid to improve strained ties with Washington spectacularly backfired.
In a post on Truth Social following the meeting, Trump wrote: “I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace.”
“He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace,” he added.
During an earlier meeting in front of reporters in the Oval Office, Trump told Zelenskyy: “You don’t have the cards right now with us, you start having problems right now. You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with world war three.”
Vice-president JD Vance said: “Do you think that it’s respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?”
The Ukrainian leader responded: “Everybody has problems, even you but you have nice ocean and don’t feel [it] now, but you will feel it in the future.”
Zelenskyy has been seeking a seat at the negotiating table after Trump blindsided Kyiv and other European capitals by launching direct talks with Putin over ending the conflict.
The leaders had planned to use the meeting to sign a minerals deal that would set up a joint US-Ukrainian “investment fund” that would receive 50 per cent of all revenues from the “future monetisation” of natural resources owned by Kyiv.
It was always going to end like this, Krasnov is operating to procedure.
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Wow, to watch Zelenskyy’s face fall when he realized there was no intention of trump doing anything for Ukraine. He was trying to fix shit in his head, but I don’t think he got there.
Vance is a turd.
My dad, a Canadian living in Asia, is a trump supporter. This is exactly how our conversions go over the phone until I hang up.
I couldn’t watch this all the way through. When we argue its just bullshit. Zelenskyy has peoples lives on the line and there’s no talking to trump. I feel so bad, how I feel after getting off the phone must be nothing like how Zelenskyy feels right now.
I’m transcribing it so people don’t have to watch. CSPAN has deleted some of the texts, so I’m not positive it will have everything, but I can’t bear to check everything. I know to check if they misspell a word fantastically though, that’s probably a tell.
It’s up to you now, Europe.
If only it were just that simple. Now, whenever there is an election here, we gotta deal with russian, Chinese and US state interference…
You can’t keep playing defense forever
Do we have realtime cameras watching from space ? In case someone still plays with lead soldiers and paper planes …
Kinda surreal to hear a president say unironically, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Hillary Clknton, Obama in quick succession with no actual thought.
“Bing bing bong bong bing bing.”
The weave, everybody!
He’s just firing off the residents living rent-free in his dome. My god, that dude has a thing for Hunter Biden.
Because Hunter is packing 🍆
Krasnov gonna krasnov.
Kids are growing up and watching their President behave this way on TV, not knowing any other. The US are cooked for generations.
I don’t think the US survives this honestly.
I sure hope not
I agree. The US is nothing more than a stumbling zombie at this point.
This depresses the ever loving fuck out of me as a father. When I was a kid, I genuinely looked up to the president, and the thought that if I worked hard, I could conceivably (with very slim odds) be president one day. Now, my kids will see that the way to succeed is to lie, cheat, steal, and grift. It’s fucking disgusting.
This is shameful!
I just watched the last half of the full meeting. Zelensky asked what guarantees there are the Russians won’t just invade again. The subtext of which is an offer to house US troops in Ukraine. But all the fucking clown car heard was a challenge to their machismo.
So they shouted him down and just loudly asserted he would either sign their deal or fight it out. Along the way they manage to insult him by treating him like a child and pretending that previous broken agreements, (invasion of Crimea, Invasion of Donetsk, and Invasion of Ukraine) were because Putin didn’t respect the American President enough. But Putin is also the victim in all of this according to Trump.
I’ve seen better diplomacy from a high school football team.
For more subtext, if there were any real guarantees then this would not have happened in the meeting with the press. Zelensky would have told reporters there were guarantees. This entire blow up means that Trump already told him there would be no guarantees other than the honor system. Which, even if Trump is right, (Putin respects Trump and won’t invade while he’s president), Zelensky knows that means Putin will invade again in 2028 after Trump’s term is over. And that’s without getting into all of the implications about Putin holding this over Trump’s head for concessions so Trump can appear to be the peacemaker.
I agree with Trump on one thing. We’re fucking around with World War 3, but Trump isn’t a peacemaker, he’s Chamberlain. Right down to berating the leaders who are asking for help to stop the aggressive country.
A lovely little display for Russian state media to play out tonight. “Look at the west fighting themselves, soon the war will be over!”
Look at the part where he says it’s “disrespectful to THIS country”. I think he had to catch himself there to stop him saying it’s disrespectful to someone else. Like anyone involved in the mob, you invoke the name of your boss and let them know he’s unhappy when you are trying to intimidate someone.
Since when did you need to be thanked for doing the rift thing?
I kinda want more articles about what people are saying. Like I get that Trump did X and we aught to know about it - but what about the people on Truth Social? Is it just a powerful echo chamber or?
Edit: yes, I say this because I feel like vomiting when I think of visiting that place.
Trump broke Budapester Memorandum + Trump was giving Putin the start signal for the war. You cant trust terrorists
