Trump Cuts Ukraine Talks Short After Shouting Match with Zelenskyy - 41NBC News | WMGT-DT

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : "You've got to be more thankful," Trump told Zelenskyy.
68% : "President Trump and Vice President Vance will always stand for America and those who respect our position in the world.
63% : "This is a huge step forward in securing mutual prosperity and peace for Americans and Ukrainians," Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had said in a statement shortly before Trump and Zelenskky's Oval Office meeting.
63% : The Ukrainian president is set to speak with Trump in a high-stakes meeting as he seeks assurances of U.S. security support.
62% : Trump and Zelenskyy are scheduled to meet in the Oval Office followed by a lunch meeting and a news conference.
57% : "It is a big commitment from the United States," Trump said.
55% : That sweeping effort has been coordinated from the White House between the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a select government reform championed by billionaire Elon Musk.
55% : U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Office of Personnel Management to inform certain federal agencies that it had no authority to order the firings of probationary employees, including at the Department of Defense.
54% : An executive order Trump signed Tuesday calls for boosting the domestic copper industry by investigating the national security implications of imports and weighing tariffs as a response.
52% : Just Friday morning, Zelenskky had met with a bipartisan group of senators and several Republicans in attendance had left praising the deal he had been readying to sign with Trump.
50% : There are about 375 probationary employees in the National Weather Service -- where day-to-day forecasting and hazard warning is done. ▶ Read more about the cuts to NOAA From talk of acquiring Greenland and its vast mineral wealth to prodding Ukraine for minerals in exchange for help fending off Russia's invasion, Trump has made the raw materials of modern life a pillar of his foreign policy.
49% : Zelenskyy had been scheduled to have lunch with Trump and both leaders were going to sign a minerals deal during a joint news conference.
49% : Starmer's goals for his trip were to persuade Trump to provide Ukraine with security guarantees in any peace deal and head off duties on British goods while pursuing a rapport with an unpredictable U.S. leader who is the center-left prime minister's opposite in temperament and political outlook.
48% : The executive will rescind a mandate from former President Bill Clinton that required the government and organizations that received federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.
47% : Trump laid bare his efforts to coerce Zelenskyy to reach an agreement giving the U.S. an interest in his country's valuable minerals and to push him toward a diplomatic resolution to the war on the American leader's terms.
47% : Trump greeted Zelenskyy with a handshake.
46% : "Thank you @POTUS for standing up not only for America, but for the American warfighter," the Defense Department's rapid response account posted on X. The last 10 minutes of the nearly 45-minute engagement turned into a tense back and forth between Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy -- who had urged skepticism about Russia's commitment to diplomacy, citing Moscow's years of broken commitments on the global stage.
44% : Trump told Zelenskyy that Ukrainian soldiers have been unbelievably brave and talked up an economic agreement between their two countries.
43% : Here's the latest: Trump suggested the deal was a condition for future support for Ukraine.
42% : The leaders looked toward journalists and Trump pumped his fist.
41% : The five men -- who represented Republican and Democratic administrations over the past three decades -- said the dismissals were alarming, raised "troubling questions about the administration's desire to politicize the military" and removed legal constraints on the president's power. ▶ Read more about the defense chiefs' call for congressional hearings A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting temporary relief to a coalition of labor unions and organizations that has sued to stop the Trump administration's massive dismantling of the federal workforce.
40% : " "I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations," Trump wrote.
40% : " "You're gambling with World War III, and what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country that's backed you far more than a lot of people say they should have," Trump said.
40% : Designating English as the national language "promotes unity, establishes efficiency in government operations, and creates a pathway for civic engagement," according to the White House.
39% : "This is going to be great television, I will say," Trump said as the meeting broke up.
38% : Posting on X, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer was reacting to the fallout of the tense meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
38% : " Zelensky tried to object, prompting Trump to eventually raise his voice and say, "You're gambling with the lives of millions of people.
37% : It happened as Trump was meeting with Zelenskyy.
36% : ▶ Read takeaways from Starmer's White House visit Ukraine's leader will meet with Trump in Washington on Friday at a pivotal moment for his country, one that hinges on whether he can persuade Trump to provide some form of U.S. backing for Ukraine's security against any future Russian aggression.
29% : Zelenskyy told Trump that promises of peace from Vladimir Putin can't be trusted, noting the Russian leader's history of broken promises.
29% : Trump said Putin hasn't broken agreements with him.
28% : " In a post on Truth Social, Trump repeated that Zelenskyy was "disrespectful.
28% : He brought along printed photos to show Trump, but journalists in the room could not see them.
27% : Zelenskyy talked up the prospect for liquid natural gas exports to Europe, but gently disagreed when Trump repeated his claim that Europe "did much less" than the United States to support Ukraine against Russia.
25% : Zelenskyy called Putin a killer and a terrorist and told Trump there should be "no compromises with a killer."
21% : Instead, the meeting ended with Trump cutting off talks with Zelenskyy.
20% : It's a renewed attempt by President Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to demand answers from the government workforce.
19% : Musk, who empowered by Trump is aiming to downsize agencies and eliminate thousands of federal jobs, said anyone who didn't respond would be fired.
18% : He said the Ukrainian leader is "gambling with World War III." Trump chided Zelenskyy after Vice President JD Vance, one of the administration's most skeptical voices on Ukraine, said Zelenskyy was being disrespectful for debating Trump in the Oval Office in front of the American media.

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