All posts tagged "Volodymyr Zelensky"

A national security expert tore into President Donald Trump's latest responses to questions about the Iran war and an embattled ceasefire.

In a Wednesday piece for The Atlantic, national security scholar Tom Nichols reacted to Trump's comments in the wake of renewed hostilities with Iran. Trump was asked on Wednesday morning whether the memorandum of understanding with Iran was dead.

"That's a very interesting question," Trump responded, according to Nichols. "To me, I think it's over. I don't wanna deal with them anymore. They're scum, you know what scum is? They're scum." However, Trump also said on Wednesday that he plans to "give them a little warning" about attacks and "we'll see how it all works out." ...

King Charles was reportedly nervous about hosting President Donald Trump for a state visit to the UK, according to a report from The i Paper on Thursday.

Leaked emails and messages have revealed that the King was concerned for one main reason: the president's contentious meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in February 2025, where Trump and Vice President JD Vance ridiculed the Ukrainian leader for not showing enough gratitude for support from America.

"The monarch’s private reservations over the visit left officials scrambling, fearful that a royal snub of President Trump could detonate into a full-blown diplomatic crisis," according to The i Paper. ...

The White House has called a grassroots movement seeking the impeachment of President Donald Trump "minuscule" despite the rising number of signatures, according to a Newsweek report.

Nearly 200,000 people have signed the Change.org petition as of Tuesday, which has nearly doubled since January. The petition cites its main concerns and several reasons for launching the campaign:

"Greed, corruption, and a lack of accountability in leadership have run rampant under Donald Trump's administration. This is not a matter of political views but of human rights and justice. The exploitation of the American people and the blatant disregard for our wellbeing has reached unprecedented levels. As citizens of this nation, we find ourselves under policies that threaten our rights, our democracy, and our future."...

CNN's Dana Bash played a "very interesting" clip on Inside Politics of President Donald Trump admitting that he's been jerked around by Vladimir Putin over ending the war in Ukraine.

The clip was recorded during a cabinet meeting Tuesday, when Trump declared, "We get a lot of bull---- thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless."

Bash said that in the past month or two, we've "heard much tougher language from the president when it comes to Vladimir Putin than we did in the almost 10 years that he has been on the political scene."...

President Donald Trump staged a Thursday morning phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin where they discussed issues including a ceasefire with Ukraine, as well as diplomatic solutions with Iran, Reuters reported.

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters that Trump "again raised the issue of an early end to military action" in Ukraine, but that Putin refused to back down from accomplishing his original goals for the region.

"Vladimir Putin, for his part, noted that we continue to seek a political and negotiated solution to the conflict," Ushakov said....

American diplomat Ned Price, who served as deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, blasted President Donald Trump's "pernicious lies" made at a Thursday Oval Office news conference with Norway's prime minister.

MSNBC anchor Chris Jansen introduced Price by recapping Trump's comments about giving Crimea plus 20 percent of Ukraine over to Russia, but stopping Putin from "taking the whole country."

"Do you hear a deal there that's acceptable?" she asked. ...