National security adviser Michael Waltz said on March 1 that administration officials had advised President Donald Trump to avoid a follow-up meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the latter clashed with Trump and Vice President JD Vance in a heated White House exchange the previous day.
Speaking with Fox News’ Charlie Hurt, Waltz explained how he and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had to speak with Zelenskyy after the Ukrainian president was escorted out of the Oval Office.
During the meeting, both Trump and Vice President JD Vance told Zelenskyy he needed to be willing to compromise and suggested he needed to be more grateful and respectful to the United States for what it had already provided and for the Trump administration’s effort to help broker a cease-fire deal to end the war Russia began with its invasion of Ukraine three years ago….