A meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump degenerated into a shouting match with the President and Vice President chiding and berating Zelenskyy for being disrespectful and not saying thank-you to the U.S.
Zelenskyy left the White House without a deal.
It didn’t take long for a gathering before the media in the Oval Office to go sideways live before a group of reporters and cameras.
Vice-President Vance accused Zelenskyy of trying to litigate his position before the American people, and of not saying thank-you during the meeting.
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Zelenskyy warned the president about getting too close to Russia, but Trump spoke over him, accusing Ukraine of not holding the cards.
“You have nice ocean,” said Zelensyy, “and you don’t feel it now, but you will feel it in the future,” to which Trump fired back, cutting him off, “you don’t know that…don’t tell us what we’re going to feel…you’re in no position to dictate what we’re going to feel.”
Trump, angered, accused Zelenskyy of “gambling with World War III.”
“You’re country is in big trouble,” said Trump. “I know,” was Zelenskyy’s response before Trump went on. “You’re not winning this; you had a damn good chance of coming out okay,” said Trump saving his greatest vitriol for his predecessor.
“We gave you through this stupid president, $350 billion dollars, we gave you military equipment, and your men are brave but they used our military…if you didn’t have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks.”
