What was supposed to be an opportunity to sign a mineral rights deal between the United States and Ukraine erupted into a heated exchange between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and JD Vance on Friday that unfolded in front of international cameras.
In the end, the two world leaders didn’t sign a deal, a White House official told NOTUS. Instead, Trump and Vance called Zelenskyy “disrespectful” and the Ukrainian president left the White House without even participating in a customary pre-scheduled press conference.
“This is going to be great television, I will say that,” Trump said in the Oval Office at the end of the bitter yelling match.