President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he was cancelling a planned press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following a tense Oval Office meeting, after which Trump declared the Ukrainian leader was “not ready for Peace if America is involved.”
Trump asked Zelensky to leave following their meeting, a White House official told The Daily Wire. Zelensky departed the White House shortly thereafter.
The statement followed a tense meeting in the Oval Office between Trump, Zelensky, and Vice President JD Vance, in which the American leaders chastised Zelensky for his behavior on American soil, arguing that the Ukrainian president was ungrateful.
“We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today,” Trump said in a statement on Friday afternoon. “Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure.”
