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The Trump administration’s efforts to broker a bid dialog ending the warfare successful Ukraine came to a halt Friday pursuing a testy speech betwixt President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The brushwood yet led to a canceled property conference, Trump requesting Zelenskyy to permission the White House, and the nonaccomplishment to motion a rare-earth minerals woody betwixt the U.S. and Ukraine that would person allowed the U.S. entree to Ukraine’s minerals.
Tensions escalated successful the Oval Office aft Zelenskyy challenged Vance, who said that the way guardant was done diplomacy. Instead, Zelenskyy issued a caution and noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin has breached different agreements successful the past.
"What benignant of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about?" Zelenskyy said. "What bash you mean?"
In response, Vance said: "I’m talking astir the benignant of diplomacy that’s going to extremity the demolition of your country."
"Mr. President, with respect, I deliberation it's disrespectful for you to travel into the Oval Office to effort to litigate this successful beforehand of the American media," Vance told Zelenskyy. "Right now, you guys are going astir and forcing conscripts to the beforehand lines due to the fact that you person manpower problems. You should beryllium thanking the president for bringing it, to bring it into this country."
Trump besides snapped astatine Zelenskyy and warned him that Ukraine was successful "big trouble" and was "gambling with World War III."
TRUMP SAYS ZELENSKYY CAN ‘COME BACK WHEN HE IS READY FOR PEACE’ AFTER FIERY WHITE HOUSE EXCHANGE
Following the encounter, Trump announced a intermission to bid negotiations and said that Zelenskyy could instrumentality to the White House erstwhile helium was "ready for Peace." Additionally, Zelenskyy near the White House without signing the minerals deal.
"I person determined that President Zelenskyy is not acceptable for bid if America is involved, due to the fact that helium feels our engagement gives him a large vantage successful negotiations," Trump said successful a Truth Social station Friday. "I don't privation advantage, I privation PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America successful its cherished Oval Office. He tin travel backmost erstwhile helium is acceptable for Peace."
Zelenskyy besides followed up with a societal media station connected X expressing gratitude to the U.S. for its support.
"Thank you America, convey you for your support, convey you for this visit," Zelenskyy said. "Thank you @POTUS, Congress, and the American people. Ukraine needs conscionable and lasting peace, and we are moving precisely for that."
Despite the fallout from the meeting, Zelenskyy told Fox News’ Bret Baier connected Friday that the narration betwixt Ukraine and the U.S. could beryllium salvaged.
Here’s what other happened astatine the White House this week:
The Trump medication also sent a memo instructing agencies crossed the national authorities to motorboat plans for "large-scale reductions successful force" and conception reorganization plans by mid-March.
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management sent a memo connected Wednesday ordering agencies to hole to chopped staffers and stock reorganization plans by March 13.
"The national authorities is costly, inefficient, and profoundly successful debt," the memo said. "At the aforesaid time, it is not producing results for the American public."
Several national authorities roles are exempt from the order, including those "necessary to conscionable instrumentality enforcement, borderline security, nationalist security, migration enforcement, oregon nationalist information responsibilities," according to the memo.
Trump held his 2nd administration's archetypal gathering with Cabinet members Wednesday, wherever helium shared plans to massively chopped the Environmental Protection Agency and question to retrieve subject instrumentality near successful Afghanistan.
Trump revealed that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is eyeing cutting 65% of national employees from the agency.
WORLD LEADERS BACK ZELENKSYY FOLLOWING TRUMP, VANCE OVAL OFFICE SPAT
"I spoke with Lee Zeldin, and helium thinks he’s going to beryllium cutting 65 oregon truthful percent of the radical from Environmental, and we’re going to velocity up the process excessively astatine the aforesaid time," Trump said. "He had a batch of radical that weren’t doing their job, they were conscionable obstructionists, and a batch of radical that didn’t exist."
Trump besides shared that helium wanted backmost the subject instrumentality U.S. troops near down erstwhile withdrawing from Afghanistan, but didn’t stock plans connected however the U.S. would retrieve the equipment.
"We near billions, tens of billions of dollars worthy of instrumentality behind, marque caller trucks," Trump said Wednesday. "You spot them show it each year, oregon their small roadway, someplace wherever they person a roadworthy and they thrust the, you know, waving the emblem and talking astir America ... that’s each the apical of the enactment stuff. I deliberation we should get a batch of that instrumentality back."
The Taliban seized astir of the much than $7 cardinal worthy of instrumentality U.S. troops near successful Afghanistan astatine the clip of the withdrawal successful August 2021, according to a Department of Defense study released successful 2022.
Trump signed an enforcement bid Friday mandating English arsenic the authoritative connection of the U.S. The bid eradicates a erstwhile mandate from President Bill Clinton successful 2000 requiring national agencies and recipients of national backing to contented connection assistance to those who don’t talk English.
The enforcement bid allows each national bureau to find whether it volition connection services successful languages too English.
The U.S. is an anomaly successful that it has ne'er had an authoritative language, whereas astir 180 countries retired of the 195 countries successful the satellite person authoritative languages, a White House authoritative told Fox News Digital.
Fox News’ Emma Colton and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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