{"id":45432,"date":"2025-02-28T19:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=45432"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:22:00","slug":"trump-zelenskyy-talks-cut-short-after-heated-exchanges-in-oval-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/02\/28\/trump-zelenskyy-talks-cut-short-after-heated-exchanges-in-oval-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Zelenskyy talks cut short after heated exchanges in Oval Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ukrainian president\u00a0<strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s<\/strong>visit to the White House has been cut short after he got into a heated exchange with US president\u00a0<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u00a0and vice-president\u00a0<strong>JD Vance<\/strong>, who accused him of \u201cdisrespectful\u201d behaviour during their talks in the Oval Office.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In a social media update, Trump said he has determined that\u00a0<strong>Zelenskyy \u201cis not ready for peace if America is involved,<\/strong>\u00a0because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations\u201d, and said\u00a0<strong>the Ukrainian leader \u201cdisrespected the United States<\/strong>\u00a0of America in its cherished Oval Office\u201d. \u201cHe can come back when he is ready for peace,\u201d he added.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In their earlier talks, Trump repeatedly told Zelenskyy that he was\u00a0<strong>\u201cgambling with the lives of millions, with the third world war\u201d,<\/strong>and telling him to stop holding out for further security guarantees saying \u201cyou\u2019re either going to make a deal or we are out\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trump appeared to mask differences by drawing false equivalence between the two sides of the war and positioning himself \u201c<strong>for both Ukraine and Russia\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>as he pursues a peace deal, in stark contrast to Zelenskyy\u2019s comments about Putin as a \u201ckiller\u201d and \u201cterrorist\u201d who invaded Ukraine, and with whom he was not ready to compromise on the Ukrainian territory.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The pair\u00a0<strong>repeatedly clashed<\/strong>\u00a0over their view of Russia and the negotiations, as well as the extent of the European support for Ukraine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Zelenskyy<\/strong>\u00a0has left the White House moments ago, with the press conference between the two leaders, where they were expected to sign a deal on minerals, also cancelled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[11261,2701,5262,9505,6330,11348,9683,11824,8000,5396,3805,71,3457,5655,5349,7609,5180,5555,9262,184,6348,11331,11255,5251,6571,2982,36,594,7932],"class_list":["post-45432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-behaviour","tag-cut","tag-european","tag-gambling","tag-jd-vance","tag-millions","tag-mineral-contract","tag-negotiations","tag-peace","tag-president","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-social-media","tag-terrorist","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-world","tag-who","tag-zelenskyy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45434,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45432\/revisions\/45434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}