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Following the explosive Oval Office meeting between President Donald J. Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelesnkyy on Friday, President Trump remained relatively silent as the media, Democrats, and World leaders weighed in on the matter.
Trump did speak to the press as he departed for Mar-a-Lago on Friday, making clear that he was only open to negotiating peace between Ukraine and Russia.
On Sunday, President Trump shared a post that outlined his intentions of offering Zelenskyy a deal he could not turn down. “Trump is actually protecting Ukraine without dragging the U.S. into war,” the excerpt stated.
The mineral deal will ensure that Americans are included in Ukraine’s mining industry, which would in turn deter Russia from attacking the country again, the post summarized.
It emphasized that Ukraine must have support from the United States to save itself from complete demise.
Sunday night, Trump brought the focus back to his America First policies in a short Truth Social post.
“We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country – So that we don’t end up like Europe!” Trump wrote.
Shortly thereafter, he shared a clip of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
Miller told Watters, “I don’t think anybody had any idea that Zelenskyy would be so impertinent, so disrespectful, so insulting to the United States of America. Look, this is one of the great moments in the history of American diplomacy. The way that President Trump and JD Vance stood up for American interests on the world stage. The way that President Trump defended Americans after years of being fleeced and abused and taken advantage of and taken for granted. Millions of American hearts swelled with overflowing pride today to watch President Trump put Zelenskyy in his place.”
He reminded Waters, “The only reason that Zelenskyy has a country, that Zelenskyy is in power is because the United States. Americans have suffered economically funding this war now for years. American security has been degraded, our stockpiles depleted, our ability to project power in other regions of the world, negatively affected, to protect and defend Ukraine.”
Miller continued, “Americans probably don’t even know the true extent of just how much military support on multiple levels and fronts America has provided to Ukraine, and then this man shows up in the Oval Office and lectures us, says we have to do more, says we’re not as good as Europe, says that we need to provide them a forever war guarantee, fight Russia until the end of time. No American watching that today says they want to send their sons and daughters to die on behalf of Zelenskyy and President Trump was clear and firm and principled saying either you’re our partner for peace and ending this war or we can’t work with you.”
Miller concluded, “And Zelenskyy, for the first time since this has begun, finally met a Western leader willing to assert their own interests the interests of their own country and not bow down to and venerate this man as a messianic figure. Americans have watched with horror as Zelenskyy has been treated as a Messiah. Our hearts all break for the suffering and loss and death. But you know what will be even worse? World War III. And today President Trump said we are not going to let this escalate into World War III. He defended the Oval Office, he defended the White House, and most importantly he defended the American people, and I was honored and proud to be there to witness this moment in history.”
Early Monday morning, President Trump sent out a reminder to all Americans and the media. “The only President who gave none of Ukraine’s land to Putin’s Russia is President Donald J. Trump. Remember that when the weak and ineffective Democrat’s criticize, and the Fake News gladly puts out anything they say!”
Mid-morning, he shared an article from the Associated Press about Zelenskyy saying the end of the war was “very, very, far away.”
Trump captioned the post with, “This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer! It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelenskyy, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the U.S. – Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking?”
