Zelenskiy Is Looking To Fight: Trump Speaks To Reporters After Heated Exchange With Zelenskiy

Disaster was the word European officials used as Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s long-sought Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump descended into a reality-TV livestream of raised voices and angry bickering.

The shock deepened as Trump told the Ukrainian president in a social media post to “come back when he is ready for Peace.” Later, Trump allies said there was little chance of a deal to end the war as long as Zelenskiy remains in power.

“Either we’re going to end it or let him fight it out,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House Friday evening.

“And if he fights it out, it’s not going to be pretty, because without us, he doesn’t win.”

The blowup left Ukraine facing an open breach with the country that has been its most important ally and arms supplier in its three-year fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion. Kyiv’s European allies, who’ve spent weeks trying to talk Trump out of rushing into a quick deal to end the war on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s terms, were aghast.

Trump spoke to reporters on his way out of the White House Friday evening after the heated exchange with Zelenskiy from the Oval Office this afternoon.