Lawmakers’ reaction to President Trump tearing into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy largely fell along party lines, with Republicans saying the tongue-lashing was a long time coming, while Democrats decried the unprecedented Oval Office spat as an embarrassment.
Zelenskyy was in the Oval Office Feb. 28 to speak with Trump about ending the devastating war with Russia, which has killed nearly one million people. The Ukranian leader was set to sign a deal that would give the United States a line to that land’s rare earth minerals, which are in short supply in America.
"Zelensky refused to abandon Kyiv, even after other leaders pleaded with him to leave.Trump hid in a bunker when protesters were outside the White House, then claimed he was inspecting the basement 🙄."
President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukraine President Zelensky got into an extremely heated back and forth in the Oval Office on Friday when Zelensky asked Vance to visit Ukraine and Vance denounced "doing propaganda tours.