{"id":153263,"date":"2025-03-01T19:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T19:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/trump-and-vances-oval-office-clash-with-zelensky-devolves-into-diplomacy-debacle\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T19:30:13","slug":"trump-and-vances-oval-office-clash-with-zelensky-devolves-into-diplomacy-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/trump-and-vances-oval-office-clash-with-zelensky-devolves-into-diplomacy-debacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Vance\u2019s Oval Office Clash With Zelensky Devolves Into Diplomacy Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">From the moment Ukrainian President <strong>Volodymyr Zelensky<\/strong> walked toward President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> outside of the White House on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RoVAS_gGoVk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the mood was tense<\/a>. After a brief \u201cHow are you,\u201d Trump immediately commented on what Zelensky, who was donning black pants and a matching military shirt, was wearing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, you\u2019re all dressed up,\u201d Trump said sarcastically as the two leaders shook hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Whatever cordialness the pair had previously maintained quickly devolved over the next couple of hours in an Oval Office meeting that further strained relations between Trump and Vice President <strong>JD Vance<\/strong> and Zelensky into further disarray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The government heads, along with some foreign policy staffers and reporters, were meeting to discuss a new agreement on rare earth minerals. Upstairs in the East Room, the White House staff had set up a long wooden table for the leaders to sign\u2014but they never got there.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE cmter caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd jSwmTa iXWezO caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump and Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelensky listen to Vice President JD Vance (R) as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on Feb. 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cvffOM fNaHcW caption__credit\">SAUL LOEB\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The beginning of the end happened when, around 40 minutes into the conversation, Vance, who hadn\u2019t spoken much until then, began to defend his boss\u2019 handling of Russia\u2019s ongoing war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThe path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy,\u201d the vice president said toward Zelensky. In a frustrated response, Zelensky outlined the ceasefires Russia had broken in the past, going back a decade. \u201cWhat kind of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about?\u201d he asked. \u201cI\u2019m talking about the kind of diplomacy that\u2019s going to end the destruction of your country,\u201d Vance said back, sitting on a sofa with Trump to his right in a chair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI think it\u2019s disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media,\u201d he continued, one of multiple times he gestured to reporters in the room. The group of pool reporters in the Oval Office was hand-picked by the Trump administration, their latest move in restricting which media outlets have close access to the president. \u201cYou should be thanking the president,\u201d Vance said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The vice president and Zelensky continued their back and forth before Trump interjected\u2014leading to an increasingly loud overlapping of voices in the Oval Office as people <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/01\/politics\/inside-trump-zelensky-meeting\/index.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/01\/politics\/inside-trump-zelensky-meeting\/index.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/03\/01\/politics\/inside-trump-zelensky-meeting\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly<\/a> watched on in disbelief. \u201cYou don\u2019t have the cards right now, with us you start having cards\u201d Trump said, chastising the Ukrainian president for not being more thankful to the United States, and him personally, for sending aid. \u201cI\u2019m not playing cards,\u201d Zelensky responded. \u201cI\u2019m a president in war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Vance then went in again, also accusing Zelensky of not being thankful enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cPlease, you think if you will speak very loudly about the war\u2014\u201d Zelensky began, before Trump cut him off, saying, \u201che\u2019s not speaking loudly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Volodymyr Zelensky and Bret Baier\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eybHBd fptoWY responsive-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/67c356633d2bf7c53b08448a\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/2202566865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/67c356633d2bf7c53b08448a\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/2202566865 120w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/67c356633d2bf7c53b08448a\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/2202566865 240w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/67c356633d2bf7c53b08448a\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/2202566865 320w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/67c356633d2bf7c53b08448a\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/2202566865 640w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/67c356633d2bf7c53b08448a\/master\/w_960,c_limit\/2202566865 960w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/67c356633d2bf7c53b08448a\/master\/w_1280,c_limit\/2202566865 1280w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/67c356633d2bf7c53b08448a\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/2202566865 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE cmter caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd jSwmTa iXWezO caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during an interview with Fox News Chief Political Anchor Bret Baier on Special Report With Bret Baier at the Fox News studios on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cvffOM fNaHcW caption__credit\">Win McNamee\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/trump-vance-zelensky-white-house-debacle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the moment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walked toward President Donald Trump outside of the White House on Friday, the mood was tense. After a brief \u201cHow are you,\u201d Trump immediately commented on what Zelensky, who was donning black pants and a matching military shirt, was wearing. \u201cOh, you\u2019re all dressed up,\u201d Trump said sarcastically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[54,8774,3725,865,677,875],"class_list":{"0":"post-153263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-jd-vance","10":"tag-lindsey-graham","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}