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.
Since when did you need to be thanked for doing the rift thing?
Trump broke Budapester Memorandum + Trump was giving Putin the start signal for the war. You cant trust terrorists
Kinda surreal to hear a president say unironically, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Hillary Clknton, Obama in quick succession with no actual thought.
He’s just firing off the residents living rent-free in his dome. My god, that dude has a thing for Hunter Biden.
“Bing bing bong bong bing bing.”
The weave, everybody!
Trump and Zelenskiy press conference is canceled. Zelenksiy leaves White House early after contentious meeting with Trump.
Video of the full debacle: https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-trump-meets-with-ukrainian-president-zelensky/656418
This wasn’t a “clash”, it was schoolyard-tier bullying by Trump and his lapdog Vance. I would however not expect the malicious and sycophantic American press to be honest about this.
hell is empty and all the devils are here
This is what happens when your leaders are too stupid to understand diplomacy. It’s also what happens when they’re working for the interests of Putin.
working for the interests of Putin.
I seriously don’t understand the endgame here. I know wealthy elites and war criminals don’t seem to have borders, and just grow like an invasive fungus wherever is favorable, but the entire reason this prick even ran was just to avoid jail for his numerous crimes in the USA.
What does he get if he gives Putin everything? What does he get if the USA just friggin’ collapses? What does he get if he starts WWIII? Do he and his bully cohorts retire to Switzerland or something? Hide out in hidden mansions in South America?
What is the motivation for this absolute insanity?!
I know rightoidism is a death cult, but is the plan to literally Judgement Day the planet or create an unstoppable Russo-Chinese world duopoly or what?!
Yes, actually the plan literally is to Judgement Day the planet.
“The Bible predicts the final world conflict will happen on the plain of Megiddo in Israel when the superpowers assemble together to do battle,” he explained. “Well, I think we can see now how a regional conflict could quickly escalate into a worldwide conflict. And that is going to happen one day.”
Aren’t you glad you asked?
I know a lot of the followers think this way, but there’s no chance Trump is christian.
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.
Watching America collapse in real time.
And we’re going to take down everyone else that we can.
Which will mostly impact Canada and Ukraine. Other nations will suffer economic losses, which will cause periods of global instability. Most will have to adapt to the new multi-polar world and watch to see how quickly and how far America slides
Will democracy return? Will the Fascism escalate? We’ll see.
I watched this train wreck. Essence first, emotions later.
Trump:
- claims (falsely) that previous presidents didn’t help Ukraine
- contradicts oneself, claiming that Biden was too hardline on Russia
- claims that Obama didn’t give any military assistance to Ukraine (but Obama did)
- claims that he gave Javelin ATGMs to Ukraine (could be true, as Trump did try to blackmail Zelensky with 0.4 millions worth of military aid, while Biden didn’t try to blackmail with 60 billions)
- claims that the words of a US president aren’t worth so much as to deter Russia
- again mis-states the volume of US economic and military assistance to Ukraine as 380 billion or something
- says that Zelensky needs to be thankful and is being disrespectful
- behaves disrespectfully, claiming Zelensky is not allowed to speak, continues ranting
- claims that Ukraine “hasn’t got the cards” and is going to lose
Zelensky:
- doesn’t get to speak as Trump rants
- manages to say that he is thankful to the US
- says that he already had a ceasefire with Putin, which he personally signed in 2019 with Merkel and Macron also present, and Putin broke the ceasefire
- says he wants a ceasefire with guarantees
- says that Ukraine isn’t going to lose
Vance:
- says Zelensky isn’t thankful enough in this room here and now
Good writeup but I really want to emphasize this:
claims that Zelensky is “gambling with World War 3” (note: Ukraine is defending itself)
That likely is going to be the angle putin wants pushed and it has been there from the start. Many people won’t remember, but in the days before the war started there were plenty of voices (on both sides) insisting that nobody should help Ukraine because it might cause WW3. Same with the calls for a no fly zone in the following weeks.
It wasn’t explicitly said (by anyone but the most compromised of republicans and tankies…), but it was very heavily implied that Ukraine needed to die so that “we” didn’t have WW3. And I fully expect those to ramp up from all sides because…
the US doesn’t want to help Ukraine because putin doesn’t want us to.
And Europe is going to be consolidating forces and getting ready for the next invasions on EU territory.
The World War 3 comment is all on Trump. He is the one who said it and he is the one using it as a threat in a “negotiation”.
He (probably) won’t start it himself, but he just gave Putin the green light to do so.
NATO without USA can still kick Russias ass if they decide to attack other European countries, but if China gets involved, then USA will have to come out from the corner that Trump just painted USA into.
If I heard right trump said at one point he didn’t know what was going on with the whole ukraine war situation.
I don’t believe he would utter such truth.
To me it looks like they are putting up a show for whatever reasons, i believe the deal governments have don’t get discussed in public and are already on the table.
Here’s NATO activity we know of in the black sea as of yesterday:
https://www.itamilradar.com/2025/02/27/intense-nato-air-activity-in-the-black-sea-area/
I’ve read about this too. There was a French AWACS plane with its fighter escort taking a look at Crimea from distance. And later, there was a visit by an US Navy plane that can drop sonar buoys and assorted stuff. I missed the Italian electronic warfare plane, reading about it now.
Russian sources have been speculating that an Ukrainian strike usually comes within days of such a visit.
I think the military are doing their stuff regardless of politicians, as long as politicians (read: Trump) won’t forbid them.
Kids are growing up and watching their President behave this way on TV, not knowing any other. The US are cooked for generations.
A lovely little display for Russian state media to play out tonight. “Look at the west fighting themselves, soon the war will be over!”
