President Trump tore into Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky following a heated argument in the Oval Office on Friday, saying the Kyiv leader had “disrespected the United States of America.”
Trump and Zelensky had been scheduled to give a joint presser at 1 p.m. following the signing of a framework mineral agreement, but the pre-planned arrangements were blown up by a shouting match involving Trump, Zelensky and Vice President JD Vance.
Trump and Zelensky were set to sign a deal that would have created a joint US-Ukraine fund investing in extracting the country’s rare-earth mineral supply. Trump had been attempting to get the Ukrainian leader to ink the agreement for weeks, even sending Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Kyiv to make it happen.