(28 Feb 2025)
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Washington DC – 28 February 2025
1. President of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walking out of White House into SUV
2. Wide of Ukrainian delegation walking out of White House
3. Vehicle carrying Zelenskyy driving away
STORYLINE:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy leaves the White House without a deal for U.S. access to that country’s rare earth minerals.
President Donald Trump cut short talks with Zelenskyy after shouting at him in the Oval Office.
Trump berated Zelenskyy for being “disrespectful.” The pair had planned to sign an agreement and hold a joint press conference. But Zelensky was instead preparing to leave the White House.
The last 10 minutes of the nearly 45-minute engagement turned into a tense back and forth between Trump, US Vice President Vance and Zelenskyy — who had urged skepticism about Russia’s commitment to diplomacy, citing Moscow’s years of broken commitments on the global stage.
It began with Vance telling Zelenskyy, “Mr. President, with respect. I think it’s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media.”
Zelensky tried to object, prompting Trump to eventually raise his voice and say, “You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people.”
“You’re gambling with World War III, and what you’re doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country that’s backed you far more than a lot of people say they should have,” Trump said.
It was an astonishing display of open antagonism in the Oval Office, a setting better known for somber diplomacy.
Trump laid bare his efforts to coerce Zelenskyy to reach an agreement giving the U.S. an interest in his country’s valuable minerals and to push him toward a diplomatic resolution to the war on the American leader’s terms.
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