From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Friday's shouting match in the Oval Office between Volatomir Zelensky and Donald Trump and J.D. Vance

continues to echo around the world, and it seems likely to do so for many, many months to come.

Zelensky traveled to London after that debacle to meet European leaders on the weekend.

They welcomed him and promised continued support.

Meanwhile, the Russians are cheering what they see as a full U.S. turn to Moscow's side of this

conflict in the three-year-old war. So what comes next? Can the mineral

deal between the U.S. and Ukraine be salvaged? Will Trump cut off aid to Ukraine immediately,

as we're hearing from some media reports? Can Ukraine fight on or is it doomed without American support? And what does all this say

about Donald Trump's foreign policy ambitions? Welcome to Potomac Watch, the daily podcast to the

Wall Street Journal Opinion pages. I'm Paul as you go with my colleagues, Joe Sternberg and

Kate Batchelder O'Dell. Those are our questions for today, folks,

on Momentives Day Friday and over the weekend. Let's listen to President Trump to talk to the press

after the meeting with Zelensky. He's dealing with a very weak set of cards. If we sign,

he's dealing with very strong set of cards and then he doesn't want to

make peace. So that's where we are. It's very simple. I'm not looking to get into anything

protracted. I want immediate peace. President Putin is going to want to make and he wants to make,

he wants to end it. And you saw what I saw today. This is a man that wants to get us signed up and keep fighting,

and we're not doing that. Pretty stiff marching orders for Zelensky, Kate, basically saying,

not just sign the minerals deal, but you have to be willing to go to what Trump seems to want

is a pretty quick ceasefire, which Zelensky is reluctant

as he made clear on Friday. He doesn't trust Russia to keep any promises. And that's why he wants

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