Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) blasted Trump with Ukrainian President Voldimi Zelensky in a meeting Friday at the White House, claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be “overjoyed” with the outcome.
“Take Ukrainian elected leaders into an oval office and engage him in a dignified way would have been a show of power for the US president,” Pelosi said Friday. post X. Putin must be overjoyed with today's play.
“Following the US vote following this week's collaboration with Russia at the United Nations, there has been a disturbing pattern that violates America's longstanding support for American democracy around the world,” Trump critic Pelosi on Friday referred to a UN vote against a UN resolution denounced Russia as an attacker in the conflict with Ukraine.
Trump and Zelensky's Friday meeting was heartfelt at first, but quickly derailed. The president and vice president Vance condemned the US fighting for ungratefulness to the support it provided to Ukraine, saying there was no significant leverage in negotiating the peace deal.
Zelensky questioned Vance's claim that an agreement could be struck with Putin to end the three-year war in Eastern Europe.
The Ukrainian president pointed out that Putin refused to trade prisoners and would return to a continuing attack on Ukrainian territory, a previous ceasefire.
“I think it would be rude to come to an oval office to try and litigate this in front of the American media,” Vance told Zelensky. “Now you have talent issues, and you are forcing the draft to the frontline, so we should thank the President for trying to end his conflict.”
Kiev leaders then said the US did not feel the devastation of conflict in Eastern Europe due to distance, but could change in the future.
“You're not in a position so don't tell us what we're feeling… to direct what we feel,” Trump said Friday. “We feel very good and it makes us feel very strong. You're not in a very good position right now.”
Trump then said there was no “now card” in Ukraine. The president at the time of the war added, “You're gambling with millions of people, you're gambling with World War II… And what you're doing is very rude to this country, this country, that's much more supportive than many people said they should have.”
After the meeting, Trump said Zelensky was not ready to launch a peace deal.
“It's amazing that it comes through emotion. President Zelensky decided that if America is involved he is not ready for peace because he feels our involvement gives great advantages to negotiations.” “I don't want any benefits, I want peace. He downplayed the United States of America in his precious oval office. He can come back when he is ready for peace.”
Zelensky, who left the White House after the controversial herd, thanked Trump for a meeting at the White House, reiterating that Ukraine “exactly needs peace and is working for it.”
