Trump and Zelensky Presser Goes Off the Rails

The Rich Zeoli Show

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🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- On Friday, President Donald Trump invited Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the White House with the intention of holding a joint press conference before signing an agreement that would provide security guarantees to Ukraine in exchange for access to the country’s rare earth mineral reserves. However, while speaking with the press in the Oval Office, Zelensky seemingly blamed the United States for ignoring Russian aggression and predations, specifically in 2014. In response, Trump noted that he wasn’t in office at that time—and unlike then-President Barack Obama, who provided Ukrainians with “sheets,” the Trump Administration armed Ukraine with javelin missiles. During the heated exchange, Trump stated: “You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people. You’re gambling with World War III.” At one point, he emphasized “if you didn’t have our military equipment this war would have been over in 2-weeks.” According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Zelensky left the White House without signing the negotiated agreement.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr.
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0:16.2	We're not days today.
0:17.7	I can only tell you that if you thought it was going to be a slow Friday, if you thought maybe, just maybe, we were going to be talking about Gene Hackman movies all afternoon, you are sadly mistaken.
0:29.7	Because what we witness today in American history, we've never seen before, the president of the United States states the vice president and zelensky
0:39.0	fighting in the oval office amazing american history playing out welcome to the show glad
0:44.6	you're here today 855 a three nine 12 10 on on x at rich zoli i'm telling you never
0:52.1	seen anything like this before you've never never, if you, you may,
0:56.4	but by now you probably have heard that there was a, this, this epic showdown in the Oval Office
1:02.0	today. It started off nice. I mean, the whole exchange was very pleasant up until the last,
1:06.8	I don't know, 15 minutes or so. Up until that point, they were having a great exchange and they were talking about this
1:12.1	minerals deal and then all of a sudden it goes off the rails when it's Zelensky starts
1:18.3	asking for more.
1:20.5	And Trump and Vance are just sitting there like, what?
1:24.2	We had a deal here.
1:25.6	What's going on?
1:26.9	Now, I'm telling you exactly how this is
1:29.4	going to break down of course if you are somebody who hates trump you're going to use this as
1:33.6	evidence of uh his his his his his his fealty to russia and the fact that he's a putton puppet
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