Zelenskyy visit ends in clash | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Trump and Zelenskyy spoke politely, even with admiration, of each other for the first half hour of the meeting.
63% : But unlike Trump, Biden expressed his displeasure with Zelenskyy privately. Shortly before the meeting ended, Trump said, "This is going to be great television.
60% : " Then, Trump joined in.
56% : He can come back when he is ready for Peace," Trump wrote.
56% : " The testy discussion was especially surprising since it came a day after Trump struck a more conciliatory tone toward Ukraine, calling America's support against Russia's invasion "a very worthy thing to do" and disclaiming any memory that he had called the Ukrainian leader a "dictator.
44% : During his visit with Trump, Zelenskyy was expected to sign the deal allowing the U.S. greater access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals and hold a joint news conference, but that plan was scrapped after the heated engagement between the leaders in front of the news media.
44% : It's unclear what the blowup could mean for the deal that Trump insisted was essential to repay the U.S. for the more than $180 billion in American aid sent to Kyiv since the start of the war.
43% : TRUMP VOICES DOUBT Trump later told reporters, shortly before departing for his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida for the weekend, that he wanted an "immediate ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine but expressed doubt that Zelenskyy was ready to make peace.
39% : "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 told Zelenskyy.
31% : Trump responded that Putin had not broken agreements with him and ducked questions about offering security guarantees to Ukraine, saying he thought the minerals deal -- which is now on hold -- would effectively end the fighting.
31% : " At another point, Trump declared himself "in the middle" and not on the side of either Ukraine or Russia in the conflict.
31% : " Even as he shouted at the Ukrainian leader in the Oval Office, the president spoke of Putin as if they were friends, saying that the Russian leader has "been through a lot with me" in enduring the "Russia hoax," referring to the investigation of Putin's clandestine efforts to help Trump win the 2016 election.
31% : It was a measure of how much Republicans have fallen behind Trump that Graham and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, both onetime hawks and strong supporters of Ukraine against Russia, backed the president and vice president.
30% : And it remains to be seen what, if anything, Trump wants Zelenskyy to do to get the deal back on track.
30% : "It's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this," Trump said to Zelenskyy as the two leaders talked over each other about past international support for Ukraine.
28% : But Zelenskyy said Trump -- who insists Putin is ready to end the three-year grinding war -- needs to understand that Ukraine can't change its attitudes toward Russia on a dime.
25% : Zelenskyy's main objective going into the sit-down had been to press Trump not to abandon his country and to warn against moving too close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
24% : Following the meeting, Trump posted on his social media site that he had "determined" that Zelenskyy "is not ready for Peace.
23% : That instantly shifted the tenor of the conversation as Zelenskyy grew defensive and Trump and his vice president blasted him as ungrateful and issued stark warnings about future American support.
21% : "You see the hatred he's got for Putin," Trump said.
20% : "Somebody asked me, am I embarrassed about Trump?"
17% : But, when the Ukrainian leader raised alarm about trusting any promises from Putin to end the fighting, Vance offered his strong rebuke for airing disagreements with Trump in public.
16% : The last 10 minutes of the nearly 45-minute meeting devolved into a tense back and forth between Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Zelenskyy, who had urged skepticism about Russia's commitment to diplomacy, citing Moscow's years of broken commitments on the global stage.
13% : Zelenskyy made an appearance on Fox News on Friday evening in which he said his public spat with Trump and Vance was "not good for both sides."
12% : WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for being "disrespectful" Friday in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, then abruptly called off the signing of a minerals deal that Trump said would have moved Ukraine closer to ending its war with Russia.
11% : Trump also objected to the Ukrainian leader bringing up the issue of security guarantees when Trump made clear he wanted to focus on the minerals deal, said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
10% : The Ukrainian leader was asked to leave the White House by top Trump advisers shortly after Trump shouted at him, showing open disdain.
6% : Democratic Senate leader Charles Schumer of New York said Trump and Vance "are doing Putin's dirty work.

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