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This Oval Office meeting before the press saw Trump and Vance hold Zelensky to account while reports from those in the room indicated that Zelensky rolled his eyes and exhibited, as Trump said kicking him out of the office and the White House, disrespectful behavior.
Posobiec spoke to White House reporter Brian Glenn who had, during the question period, asked Zelensky why he refused to wear a suit—to which Zelensky said he'd wear "costume" after the conclusion of the war his nation is fighting against Russia. That war began three years ago when Russia invaded their neighbor
Glenn revealed that the tension in the room was fierce almost from the get-go, with the tension rising after just 10 minutes of conversation between the three men. Zelensky and Trump had intended to sign a rare earth mineral deal that would dictate terms for the US to gain income from the development of those minerals beneath Ukraine's soil.
The key moment in the meeting where everything went sideways was clear. After Vance questioned Zelensky on his lack of gratitude, Zelensky said that, with his arms crossed, that the US would be dragged into the war further.
"You have a nice ocean," Zelensky said, "you don't feel now, but you will feel in the future."
Trump jumped in with rising anger, saying, "You don't know that. Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. Because you're in no position to dictate what we're gonna feel. We're gonna feel very good and very strong. You're right now not in a very good position." Zelensky tried to talk over Trump.
"No one comes to the Oval Office and dictates terms, no one. That's not how it works. This is not diplomacy. This is not serious. This is not statesmanship. You're out. You are turfed out," Posobiec said.
Posobiec was in Kiev with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent when the rare earth minerals deal was first proposed to Zelensky and he refused it. It was widely expected that he would sign the deal on Friday but he and his diplomatic corps were ejected from the White House before that could happen.
"He got kicked out of the White House. I don't see why President Trump comes back to the table, and we already know what comes next: he's making negotiations with Russia. At this point, this guy, who is a guy that President Trump said is a dictator without elections, is almost coming up on a full year in office without any legal mandate for him to be there,” Posobiec said.
"He needs President Trump. He needs America, but for this guy to come to the people's house, the Oval Office, to not show the American people the respect they deserve, to not show the office the respect it deserves, to not show President Trump the respect he deserves, which is very interesting, by the way, because Zelensky when they met during the campaign, he was all happy talk. He was all happy talk. He said, we're going to work together. We want peace. We want all of this.”
"But then suddenly, when I went over there with Bessent, with the term sheet of the deal, which is going to see the same deal as today, suddenly he wasn't going to sign it. Suddenly he started hemming and hawing and people have seen the reporting that's come out later about the anger from Zelinsky side, the way that he disrespected Bessent there. But nobody thought, nobody thought, except perhaps one guy myself, earlier on the War Room, said that we shouldn't trust him on this deal. He plays games. He did it in Kyiv. He's going to do it again. Don't trust a thing until the ink is signed."
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