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The White House clearly seen President Donald Trump on Friday Oval Oval Strength Termination With the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an overwhelming victory that underlines Trump’s “America first” leadership, by dispatching senior officials and allies to amplify the management of the situation by Trump, even though European leaders express unified support For Ukraine and its chief.
Trump often aimed at the United States for Ukraine on the campaign track, reflecting the decreasing support of Americans for Ukraine and Zelensky in the last three years of the war. Trump considers the conflict through an economic lens, seeking to rebuild a partnership with Russia and to recover part of the financial support that the United States has provided to Ukraine.
The main lieutenants of the president, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the Commerce Secretary Howard Lunick – who were all in the oval office during the explosive meeting – appeared on news broadcasts on Sunday to praise their boss and the criticism of his Ukrainian counterpart because Trump is US all, all people.
Efforts come as dozens of European leaders Gather in London For what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as a “unique moment for Europe’s security”, a major demonstration of support in Zelensky.
“I hope you know that we are all with you and the inhabitants of Ukraine as long as it takes, everyone around this table,” said Starmer during the opening remarks of the Sunday Summit.
The Trump team, on the other hand, supervising the controversial meeting of Friday from an American force of force, even if it was welcomed with Glee by the Kremlin.
During an appearance on “State of the Union”, Waltz told American support for a new leadership in Ukraine.
“We need a leader who can deal with us, finally facing the Russians and put an end to this war,” Waltz told Dana Bash from CNN on Sunday.
“And if it becomes obvious that the personal motivations of President Zelensky or political motivations are divergent from the end of the fighting in this country, then I think we have a real problem in our hands,” said Waltz.
The president of the room, Mike Johnson, also suggested in an appearance on NBC “Meet the Press” that Zelensky should potentially withdraw after the tense meeting, saying: “Either he must return to his senses and return to the table in gratitude, or someone else must lead the country to do so.”
Trump himself suggested after the meeting that Zelensky does not want the end of the war. Waltz said on Sunday that the Ukrainian chief should clearly indicate “publicly and private” that he was “ready to go to peace”.
Waltz, who compared Zelensky to an “ex -girlfriend who wants to discuss” earlier in the weekend, continued to slam the Friday actions of the Ukrainian leader and body language, by criticizing “the trembling of the head, the kind of – cross weapons, we just – we found it incredibly lack of respect”.
Rubio also continued after Zelensky, who, he said, on ABC News “this week”, “found all opportunities to try to” Ukraine-Plaine “on each issue.”
And Lunick threw Trump as “the peacemaker”.
“He is the peacemaker, and if Zelensky is not interested in peace, then he should go home and think about it,” he told Fox News “Sunday Morning Futures”.
The White House press office has also sent several emails amplifying warm criticisms and supporting messages from the main republican allies on Capitol Hill, members of the Trump cabinet and other senior managers of the White House.
“The support continues to present themselves for the unwavering commitment of President Donald J. Trump and the vice-president Vance to the American people and the incessant pursuit of the peace of the Trump administration,” an email sent to journalists on Saturday, stressing Johnson’s remarks, renting Trump to “have put America first”; of the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard thanking Trump for his “unshakable direction”; And Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri saying that “the age of foreign policy” America Last “is over”, among others.
Johnson, who led an effort to transmit more help to Ukraine last spring despite the threats against his speaker from certain hard -workings of his own party, told Bash that he had “allowed Ukraine to maintain himself and position them for peace negotiations” by extending support until Trump takes up his duties.
“The plan has worked, but now Zelensky must follow, and the fact that he acted like him, I think, was a great disappointment,” said the Republican of Louisiana.
He said that an assessment of senator Lisa Murkowski, a frequent criticism of the president’s GOP, that the Trump administration “was moving away from our allies and kissed Putin”, was “clearly wrong”, arguing that Trump, who hesitated to call Putin a “dictator”, was “very clear” that the Russian president is an aggressor to Ukraine.
The former president of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Turner, historically a passionate supporter of Ukraine and the curtain on Russia, described Zelensky’s actions during the meeting with “inappropriate” Trump.
“You could hear President Trump. I mean … He is committed to saying, you know, people die, “said the Ohio Republican Congress on” Face The Nation “of CBS. “We have to stop death. … Let’s go ahead with peace negotiations, then we will determine what security measures must be taken around peace negotiations. »»