Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with US President Donald Trump at the White House in a bilateral meeting, discussing the mineral deal and potential peace talks with Russia.
The pair clashed over peace negotiations with Russia, as the US President accused his Ukrainian counterpart of being disrespectful.
The pair clashed over peace negotiations with Russia, as the US President accused his Ukrainian counterpart of being disrespectful.
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00:00If I didn't align myself with both of them, you'd never have a deal.
00:05You want me to say really terrible things about Putin and then say, hi, Vladimir, how
00:11are we doing on the deal?
00:12That doesn't work that way.
00:13I'm not aligned with Putin.
00:15I'm not aligned with anybody.
00:16I'm aligned with the United States of America and for the good of the world.
00:21I'm aligned with the world, and I want to get this thing over with.
00:24You see the hatred he's got for Putin, it's very tough for me to make a deal with that
00:28kind of hate.
00:29I understand his hatred, and I understand that, but I can tell you the other side isn't
00:33exactly in love with him either.
00:38So it's not a question of alignment.
00:40I'm aligned with the world.
00:42I want to get the thing set.
00:43I'm aligned with Europe.
00:46I want to see if we can get this thing done.
00:49You want me to be tough?
00:50I could be tougher than any human being you've ever seen.
00:53I'd be so tough, but you're never going to get a deal that way.
00:56So that's the way it goes.
00:58One more question.
00:59I will respond to this.
01:01So look, for four years in the United States of America, we had a president who stood up
01:05at press conferences and talked tough about Vladimir Putin, and then Putin invaded Ukraine
01:11and destroyed a significant chunk of the country.
01:14The path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy.
01:20We tried the pathway of Joe Biden, of thumping our chest and pretending that the president
01:26of the United States' words mattered more than the president of the United States' actions.
01:31What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy.
01:35That's what President Trump is doing.
01:36Can I ask you?
01:38Sure.
01:39Yeah?
01:40Yeah.
01:41Okay.
01:42So he occupied our parts, big parts of Ukraine, part of East and Crimea.
01:50So he occupied it on 2014.
01:53So during a lot of years, I'm not speaking about just Biden, but those time was Obama,
02:01then President Obama, then President Trump, then President Biden, now President Trump,
02:06and God bless, now President Trump will stop him.
02:09But during 2014, nobody stopped him.
02:12He just occupied and took.
02:14He killed people.
02:15You know what the contact was?
02:162015.
02:172014.
02:182014.
02:19Yeah, yeah.
02:20So he killed-
02:21I was not here.
02:23That's exactly right.
02:24Yes, but during 2014 till 2022, the situation was the same.
02:31People have been dying on the contact line.
02:34Nobody stopped him.
02:35You know that we had conversations with him, a lot of conversation, my bilateral conversation,
02:41and we signed with him, me, like a new president in 2019, I signed with him the deal.
02:49I signed with him, Macron and Merkel.
02:51We signed ceasefire, ceasefire.
02:54All of them told me that he will never go.
02:58We signed him with gas contract, gas contract.
03:02Yes, but after that, he broken the ceasefire.
03:06He killed our people and he didn't exchange prisoners.
03:09We signed the exchange of prisoners, but he didn't do it.
03:14What kind of diplomacy, J.D., you are speaking about?
03:17What do you mean?
03:19I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.
03:23Yes, but if you are not-
03:24Mr. President, Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come
03:27into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
03:30Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you
03:35have manpower problems.
03:36You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict.
03:40Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?
03:43I have been to-
03:44Then come once.
03:46I've actually watched and seen the stories and I know what happens is you bring people,
03:51you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President.
03:54Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people in your military?
03:58Do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of
04:02America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your
04:07country?
04:08A lot of questions.
04:09Let's start from the beginning.
04:10Sure.
04:11First of all, during the war, everybody has problems.
04:14Even you, but you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future.
04:20God bless.
04:21You don't know that.
04:22God bless.
04:23God bless.
04:24You will not have a war.
04:25Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
04:26We're trying to solve a problem.
04:28Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
04:29I'm not telling you.
04:30Because you're in no position to dictate that.
04:32Remember that.
04:33You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
04:38You're going to feel very good.
04:39You will feel influence.
04:40We're going to feel very good and very strong.
04:43You will feel influence.
04:44You're right now not in a very good position.
04:46You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position, and he happens to be right about
04:50it.
04:51From the very beginning of the war, Mr. President, I was upset.
04:52You're not in a good position.
04:53You don't have the cards right now.
04:56With us, you start having cards.
04:57I'm not playing cards.
04:58Right now, you don't have the cards.
04:59I'm very serious, Mr. President.
05:00You're playing cards.
05:01I'm very serious.
05:02You're gambling with the lives of millions of people.
05:03I'm the president in the war.
05:04You think you're serious.
05:05You're gambling with World War III.
05:06What do you think you're talking about?
05:07You're gambling with World War III.
05:10And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country, that's backed
05:16you far more than a lot of people said they should have.
05:19Have you said thank you once?
05:20A lot of times.
05:21No, in this entire meeting, have you said thank you?
05:25You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October.
05:29Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's
05:33trying to save your country.
05:37Please, you think that if you will speak very loudly about the war, you can-
05:42He's not speaking loudly.
05:43He's not speaking loudly.
05:44Your country is in big trouble.
05:45Can I answer?
05:46No, no.
05:47You've done a lot of talking.
05:49Your country is in big trouble.
05:50I know.
05:51You're not winning.
05:52You're not winning this.
05:54You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of us.
05:57Mr. President, we are staying in our country, staying strong.
06:00From the very beginning of the war, we've been alone.
06:03And we are thankful.
06:04I said thanks in this cabinet.
06:05You haven't been alone.
06:06You haven't been alone.
06:07We gave you, through this stupid president, $350 billion.
06:11You voted for your president.
06:12We gave you military equipment.
06:13You voted for your president.
06:14And you met up brave, but they had to use our military equipment.
06:17What about Glasgow?
06:18If you didn't have our military equipment, if you didn't have our military equipment,
06:23this war would have been over in two weeks.
06:25In three days.
06:26I heard it from Putin.
06:27In three days.
06:28This is something new.
06:29Maybe less.
06:30In two weeks.
06:31Of course, yes.
06:32It's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this, I tell you.
06:34You just say thank you, except that there are disagreements.
06:41And let's go litigate those disagreements, rather than trying to fight it out in the
06:45American media when you're wrong.
06:47We know that you're wrong.
06:48But you see, I think it's good for the American people to see what's going on.
06:52I think it's very important.
06:53That's why I kept this going so long.
06:56You have to be thankful.
06:57You don't have the cards.
06:59You're buried there.
07:00You have people that die.
07:02You're running low on soldiers.
07:04Listen, you're running low on soldiers.
07:07It would be a damn good thing.
07:09Then you tell us, I don't want a ceasefire.
07:11I don't want a ceasefire.
07:12I want to go.
07:13And I wanted this.
07:14Look, if you could get a ceasefire right now, I tell you, you'd take it so the bullets
07:19stop flying and your men stop getting killed.
07:22Of course we want to stop the war.
07:23But you're saying you don't want a ceasefire?
07:24But I said to you, with guarantees.
07:25I want a ceasefire.
07:27Because you'll get a ceasefire faster than a degree.
07:29Ask our people about ceasefire, what they think.
07:32That wasn't with me.
07:34That wasn't with me.
07:35That was with a guy named Biden, who was not a smart person.
07:39That was with Obama.
07:41It was your president.
07:42Excuse me.
07:43That was with Obama, who gave you sheets, and I gave you javelins.
07:46I gave you the javelins to take out all those tanks.
07:50Obama gave you sheets.
07:52In fact, the statement is, Obama gave sheets and Trump gave javelins.
07:58You got to be more thankful.
08:00Because let me tell you, you don't have the cards.
08:02With us, you have the cards.
08:04But without us, you don't have any cards.
08:06One more question to Mark.
08:07Mr. Vice President.
08:08I'm sorry.
08:09It's going to be a tough deal to make.
08:12Because the attitudes have to change.
08:13What if Russia breaks ceasefire?
08:14What if Russia breaks peace talks?
08:15What do you do then?
08:16I understand that it's a heated conversation right now.
08:24What are you saying?
08:25She's asking, what if Russia breaks the ceasefire?
08:29What if anything?
08:30What if a bomb drops on your head right now?
08:34What if they broke it?
08:35I don't know.
08:36They broke it with Biden, because Biden, they didn't respect him.
08:39They didn't respect Obama.
08:40They respect me.
08:43Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me.
08:45He went through a phony witch hunt, where they used him and Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
08:51You ever hear of that deal?
08:52That was a phony Hunter Biden, Joe Biden scam.
08:56Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff.
09:00It was a Democrat scam.
09:02And he had to go through that.
09:04And he did go through it.
09:05We didn't end up in a war.
09:07And he went through it.
09:08He was accused of all that stuff.
09:09He had nothing to do with it.
09:10It came out of Hunter Biden's bathroom.
09:14It came out of Hunter Biden's bedroom.
09:17It was disgusting.
09:19And then they said, oh, oh, the laptop from hell was made by Russia.
09:24The 51 agents, the whole thing was a scam.
09:28And he had to put up with that.
09:29He was being accused of all that stuff.
09:32All I can say is this.
09:34He might have broken deals with Obama and Bush, and he might have broken them with Biden.
09:39He did.
09:40Maybe.
09:41Maybe he didn't.
09:42I don't know what happened.
09:43But he didn't break them with me.
09:44He wants to make a deal.
09:45I don't know if he can make a deal.
09:47The problem is, I've empowered you to be a tough guy.
09:51And I don't think you'd be a tough guy without the United States.
09:54And your people are very brave.
09:56But you're either going to make a deal or we're out.
09:59And if we're out, you'll fight it out.
10:02I don't think it's going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out.
10:06But you don't have the cards.
10:07But once we sign that deal, you're in a much better position.
10:11But you're not acting at all thankful.
10:13And that's not a nice thing.
10:14I'll be honest.
10:15That's not a nice thing.
10:16All right.
10:17I think we've seen enough.
10:19What do you think?
10:20This is going to be great television.
10:23I will say that.