Tulsi Gabbard, the new director of National Intelligence, thanked President Donald Trump on Friday for his “relentless leadership” after his Collision with the Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zenskyy During a meeting in the Oval Office earlier in the day.
“Thank you @REALDONALDTRUMP for your relentless leadership in standing up for the interests of the American people and peace,” ” Gabbard wrote On X Friday evening, hours after the fiery exchange.
“What you said is absolutely true: Zensky has been trying to drag the United States to a nuclear war with Russia/WW3 for years, and nobody has that.”
Tensions increased during the Oval Office meeting between Trump, Zenskyy and Vice -President JD Vance about a potential peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine after Zenskyy said that Russian President Vladimir Putin could not be trusted and brought other similarities.
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Trump and vice -president JD Vance then accused Zolenskyy of being grateful for the support that the US has offered over the years and said that the Ukrainian leader was in a “bad position” at the negotiating table.
Donald Trump with Tulsi Gabbard during a campaign event in August. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“You play cards,” said Trump. “You are gambling with the lives of millions of people. You are gambling with the Second World War. You are gambling with the Second World War. And what you do is very disrespectful for the country, this country.”
After Vance had told that Zenskyy had manpower and military recruitment problems, Zenskyy said war that means “everyone has problems, even you”, adding the US would feel the war “in the future”.
“Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel,” Trump replied. “We try to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel.”
Zenskyy was asked to leave the White House after the exchange, a press conference was canceled and a deal for Ukraine to give the US his rare earth minerals was not signed.
President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zelenskyy clashed in the Oval Office on Friday. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)
Zenskyy expressed his gratitude for that of America Help after the meeting.
“Thank you America, thanks for your support, thanks for this visit,” he wrote on X. “Thanks @potus, the congress and the American people. Ukraine just needs and lasting peace, and we work exactly for that.”
The Ukrainian president told Fox News’ Bret Baier in an interview after the meeting he believes that Ukrainian ties can be stored.
“Yes, of course, because they are more than two presidents relationships,” he said in the exclusive interview “Special report.” “It is the historical relations, strong relationships between our people. And that’s why I always started … to thank you people of our people.
Zenskyy was asked to leave the White House after the tense exchange in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)
“Of course, grateful for the president and, of course, for the congress,” he said, “but in the first place to your people … we really wanted to have all these strong relationships and where it counted. We will have it.”
Zenskyy said that he “was not sure that we did something bad” when he was asked about the heated exchange, but admitted that the substance was “bad for both parties”.
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Trump also received support from Republicans such as State Secretary Marco Rubio, who said that Trump ‘stood up for America’, while Democrats such as Arizona Senator Mark Kelly wrote on X on X, ‘to be clear, the only winner in this screaming game in the Oval Office is Putin. Almost not believe that this happened. ”
