{"id":2407999,"date":"2025-02-28T15:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-releases-fiery-statement-after-contentious-meeting-with-zelenskyy-he-disrespected-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T20:20:39","slug":"trump-releases-fiery-statement-after-contentious-meeting-with-zelenskyy-he-disrespected-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-releases-fiery-statement-after-contentious-meeting-with-zelenskyy-he-disrespected-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Releases Fiery Statement After Contentious Meeting with Zelenskyy: &#8216;He Disrespected the United States&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-releases-fiery-statement-after-contentious-meeting-with-zelenskyy-he-disrespected-the-united-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2407999&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-donors-pull-funds-over-anti-israel-protests-where-was-the-outrage-over-blm\/\" title=\"University donors withdraw funds due to anti-Israel protests. Why no outrage over BLM?\">article\u200c discusses<\/a> a\u200c heated\u200b meeting between former \u200bPresident Donald\u200d Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House, \u2064which turned \u2062contentious. \u200dDuring the visit, they were expected to discuss a potential agreement between Ukraine and the United States regarding \u2064rare-earth minerals\u2062 crucial for technology, \u2064but the meeting ended abruptly,\u2064 leading \u200bto \u2062the cancellation of\u200c a planned news\u200d conference.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u200d expressed disappointment\u200b in Zelenskyy, stating \u2063that he was not ready for peace \u2064and accused \u200chim \u200bof disrespecting the U.S. during a critical conversation in the Oval Office. \u2063He\u200d emphasized\u2062 his desire \u2062for peace rather than an \u2063advantage in negotiations. The \u200csituation escalated further as Trump, along\u200d with Vice President J.D. Vance, criticized Zelenskyy\u2019s statements regarding the Russia-Ukraine war, suggesting that he was in a vulnerable position and needed to consider the future implications.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions peaked when Trump decided \u2064to remove the media\u200b from the meeting, signifying a breakdown\u200c in diplomacy during the discussions. the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">encounter highlighted meaningful strain<\/a>\u2064 in U.S.-Ukraine relations amid ongoing conflict with Russia.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>After a White House battle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump issued a volley of condemnation aimed at Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration\/live-blog\/trump-zelenskyy-russia-ukraine-white-house-live-updates-rcna193942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC News<\/a>, the script for Friday&rsquo;s White House meeting between Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/voices-raised-trump-zelenskyy-oval-office-meeting-turns-extremely-heated-dont-cards-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zelenskyy<\/a> called for discussion of an agreement between Ukraine and the United States over rare-earth minerals important for the tech sector.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-campaign-holds-press-conference-to-outline-viable-path-to-victory\/\" title=\"Watch Live: ... Campaign Holds Press Conference to Outline &#039;Viable Path to Victory&#039;\">news conference<\/a> was scheduled in expectation of an agreement, but it was canceled after Zelenskyy&rsquo;s time at the White House was cut short.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-trump-couldnt-resist-making-sly-comment-zelenskyys-outfit-welcomed-white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> unloaded on Zelenskyy in a statement posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114082877976878390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had a very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-set-to-invite-every-single-republican-senator-to-mar-a-lago-report\/\" title=\"... Set to Invite Every Single Republican Senator to Mar-a-Lago: Report\">meaningful meeting<\/a> in the White House today. Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure,&rdquo; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want advantage, I want PEACE,&rdquo; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace,&rdquo; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Amen, Mr. President. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TMvjQhqCG7\">pic.twitter.com\/TMvjQhqCG7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteHegseth\/status\/1895541069921866167?\">February 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the White House, Zelenskyy, Trump, and Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-uk-prime-minister-bristles-jd-vance-confronts-face-face-infringements-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J.D. Vance<\/a> had a public squabble over the direction of the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re not really in a good position right now,&rdquo; Trump said at one point, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/02\/28\/us\/trump-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>, adding &ldquo;You&rsquo;re gambling with World War III.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re either going to make a deal or we&rsquo;re out,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;And if we&rsquo;re out, you&rsquo;ll fight it out and I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s going to be pretty.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8252;&#65039;A heated back and forth between <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa?\">@ZelenskyyUa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?\">@POTUS<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP?\">@VP<\/a> now in the Oval. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j1YCy4Jm3K\">pic.twitter.com\/j1YCy4Jm3K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Misha Komadovsky (@komadovsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/komadovsky\/status\/1895526183858798972?\">February 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/voices-raised-trump-zelenskyy-oval-office-meeting-turns-extremely-heated-dont-cards-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vance<\/a> interrupted Zelenskyy as he was offering his version of relations between Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate in front of the American media,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you think it&rsquo;s respectful to come to the Oval Office and attack the administration that&rsquo;s trying to prevent the destruction of your country?&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/nbc-uses-anonymous-intel-sources-attack-trump-admins-negotiations-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> will threaten the U.S. in time.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You have a nice ocean and don&rsquo;t feel [it] now, but you will feel it in the future,&rdquo; he told Trump and Vance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t tell us what we&rsquo;re going to feel. You&rsquo;re not in a good position, you don&rsquo;t have the cards right now,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump eventually had the media removed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think we&rsquo;ve seen enough. What do you think?&rdquo;&nbsp;he said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/this-is-not-a-tv-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Review<\/a>. &ldquo;This is gonna be great television, I will say that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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According to NBC News, the agenda for their Friday meeting included talks about a potential agreement between Ukraine and the U.S. regarding rare-earth minerals vital for the technology industry. A press conference was planned in anticipation of this agreement but was canceled when Zelenskyy&#8217;s visit was unexpectedly shortened. In a statement, Trump remarked on their &#8220;meaningful&#8221; discussion, emphasizing that significant insights were gained under pressure. He concluded that Zelenskyy is not prepared for peace while relying on American support in negotiations and criticized him for disrespecting the U.S. in its Oval Office. During their exchange, Trump warned Zelenskyy about his precarious position regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict and suggested that if no deal is reached, Ukraine would face dire consequences without U.S. assistance. Vice President J.D. Vance also confronted Zelenskyy during this tense interaction over his comments about U.S.-Russia relations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2408000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump-Zelenskyy-argue.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3817,6317,3634,51319,10724],"class_list":["post-2407999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-diplomacy","tag-statement","tag-trump","tag-u-s-relations","tag-zelenskyy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump-Zelenskyy-argue.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408003,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407999\/revisions\/2408003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}