The Trump-Zelenksy deal is “dead” after the Oval Office Shouting Match

“The deal is dead,” said an official of the White House of the Washington Examiner.

The schedule on Friday started unfavorably enough, although Trump noticed a Henley T shirt without a jacket in the White House in Zelensky shortly after 11 a.m. But less than three hours later the White House had canceled the press conference, and Zelensky and the Ukrainian delegation had asked to leave the executive campus, with Trump said he could “come back if he was ready for peace”.

Trump left the White House in Florida for a weekend and said again with reporters and repeated that Zelensky had “dubbed his hand”.

Trump suggested that Zelensky's application for US security guarantees had drawn America to a “10th year war”.

“He has to say:” I want to make peace, “he said when he was asked what Zelensky has to do to restart negotiations.” It's time to stop death. “

“It was not a man who wanted to make peace, and I am only interested if he wants to stop the bloodshed,” added Trump before entering Marine for Mar-A-Lago.

Before Trump's meeting with Zelensky, the administrative officers held together with their Russian colleagues on Thursday, this time in Turkey, when Washington tries to normalize diplomatic relationships with Moscow, including access to banking and contractual services.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and special representative Steve Witoff in the Middle East took part in the first meeting with the Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Saudi -Arabia.

However, what the White House will not say is what comes next for both Ukraine and Russia.

“He believes that President Zelensky is not in the right attitude to negotiate peace [to Fox News’s Bret Baier] refuses to apologize that he did not respect the president and the American people ” Washington Examiner From Trump.

Leavitt continued: “I don't pursue anything about the next steps in dealing with Putin and the Russians. The president has always made it clear that both sides have to speak equally to bring both sides to the table to negotiate a deal. … In every good business, whether it is business or politics, both sides usually go away a bit unhappily and unfortunately he refuses to recognize the practical reality of this war. “

In his part, Zelensky, on Friday, canceled a speech in the conservative foreign policy thinking factory, the Hudson Institute and the Ukraine House in Washington in Washington after Trump exceeded him on TV during television, but kept his appearance in Fox News.

During this interview, Zelensky refused to apologize to Trump, but claimed that he respected the president and the Americans.

“I'm not sure if we did something bad,” said Zelensky. “There are things in which we have to understand the position of Ukraine and the Ukrainian.”

After Zelensky's first public explanation was criticized by Vice President JD Vance because he did not thank Trump, he was grateful.

“Thank you America, thank you very much for your support, thank you for this visit. Many thanks to @potus, congress and the American people, ”he wrote on social media. “Ukraine needs just and permanent peace, and we are doing exactly for that.”

Thank you America, thank you very much for your support, thank you very much for this visit. Thanks @PotusCongress and the American people.
Ukraine needs just and permanent peace, and we work for that.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy / володиstre зеленський (@zelenskyyua) February 28, 2025

According to a well -known source, both Trump and Vance were “unprepared for Zelenksys in some ways” and had not intended that the interaction became so sharper.

Officials of the White House told that Washington Examiner That Trump took a special roof with Zelensky's body language that “rolled his eyes” and twitched his shoulders several times.

“I think it is disrespectful for them to come to the Oval Office and to argue from the American media,” said Vance.

After the reporter had been worked out, the White House said that Trump was asked Zelensky and his helpers to leave the oval office. The Ukrainians were led to a separate room instead of becoming a lunch as before, where they fly to a reset the staff of the White House.

Ultimately, Rubio and Waltz informed the Ukrainians that they should leave the White House, but only after Trump had published the following explanation on social media.

“It is astonishing what comes out of emotions, and I have found that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace when America is involved because he believes that our commitment gives him a great advantage in the negotiations,” wrote Trump. “I don't want an advantage, I want peace. He respected the United States of America in his esteemed oval office. He can come back if he is ready for peace. “

After that, the White House employees ate lunch, which was prepared for Trump, Zelensky and their respective entourage.

The spectacle in the Oval Office triggered an immediate reaction from the entire political spectrum, with Trump allied it as a demonstration of “America First”.

“He either has to step down and send someone about it with whom we can do business, or he has to change,” Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told the Washington Examiner in the white house of Zelensky.

Graham, a trailer in Ukraine, who was for a separate meeting in the west wing, took the opportunity to defend Trump's reporters outside.

“Someone asked me that I was ashamed of Trump?” Said Graham. “I've never been proud of the president.”

Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-in), the first and only in Ukrainian, member of the Congress, examined Zelensky, “the Ukrainian people who insulted the American President and the American people to make a serious disadvantage”.

“Just to appease the Europeans and increase their low survey in Ukraine after having failed miserably to defend his country,” said Spatztz on social media. “This is not a theater act, but a real war.”

Zelensky makes the Ukrainian people a serious disadvantage that insults the American president and the American people – just to appease the Europeans and increase their low survey in Ukraine after having failed to defend his country.

This is not a theater act, but a real war! https://t.co/n4xksqxnnq

– Rep. Victoria Spartz (@Repspartz) February 28, 2025

In the meantime, Democrats and more Russia-skeptical Republicans conduct Trump and Vance, including Rep. Don Bacon (marginal), who represents a swing distribution in Nebraska.

“Some want to do the truth, but we cannot ignore the truth,” wrote Bacon on social media. “Russia is to blame for this war. Zelensky to hit every step while not my style to get on Putin. “

Some want to do the truth, but we cannot ignore the truth. Russia is to blame for this war. https://t.co/zwgtptwSVV

– Don Bacon 🇺🇸 ✈ 🏍️ ⭐️ ⭐️ (@donjbacon) February 28, 2025

Abroad, the NATO members have a similar support their support, including French President Emmanuel Macron, who was in the White House on Monday. Macron had intervened to organize Zelensky's meetings after it became uncertain due to the disagreement on the mineral contract.

“There is an attacker: Russia. There is a victim: Ukraine, ”he wrote on social media. “We had the right to help Ukraine and the Sanction of Russia three years ago – and continue to do so. By “we” I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese and many others. Many thanks to everyone who helped and continue to do so. “

There is an attacker: Russia.

There is a victim: Ukraine.

We had the right to help Ukraine and sanction Russia three years ago – and continue to do so.

By “we” I mean the Americans, the Europeans, the Canadians, the Japanese and many others.

Thanks to …

– Emmanuel Macron (@emmanuelmacron) February 28, 2025

The British Prime Minister Keir Starrer, who was in the White House on Thursday, confirmed that a meeting with allies was still on an international peace mission.

Zelensky says he owes no excuse for a dramatic oval office meeting

“The prime minister spoke to President Trump and President Zelensky this evening,” wrote Downing St. No. 10 in a statement. “He keeps his unshakable support for Ukraine and plays his part to find a way to a permanent peace based on sovereignty and security for Ukraine. The prime minister is looking forward to organizing international leaders on Sunday, including President Zelensky. “

However, the political and practical failure from the Oval Office already unfolds from the United States, which is reported to finance the project to restore Ukraine into the energy -long and high -ranking civil servants that promised to investigate fraud in US help that Ukraine ordered to the Pentagon, the Cyber ​​command to target against Russia.