Zelenskyy Punches Back on Fox After Trump Meltdown

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Speaker 5 Ukrainian President Zelensky just gave an interview with Fox where he addressed the Oval Office meeting where Donald Trump and J.D.

Speaker 5 Vance laundered Russian propaganda to attack and yell at Zelensky in the Oval Office in front of the world media, where Zelensky held his ground, pushed back against Trump and J.D.

Speaker 5 Vance, and strongly defended Ukraine as well as democracies across the country. Zelensky was asked by Brett Baer of Fox if he would apologize to Donald Trump on camera, to which Zelensky said, no,

Speaker 5 what am I going to apologize for? I did not do something bad. Watch this.

Speaker 7 So I'm not hearing from you, Mr. President, a thought that you owe the President an apology.

Speaker 6 No, I respect President and I respect American people. And if

Speaker 6 I don't know if I think that we have to be very open and very honest, and I'm not sure that we did something bad. I think maybe sometimes,

Speaker 6 some things we have to discuss

Speaker 6 out of media with all respect to democracy and to free media. But there are things where we have to understand the position of Ukraine and Ukrainians.
And I think that is the most important thing.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 5 Folks, President Zelensky is standing on business.

Speaker 5 He talks about how he respects America, he respects the American people, but he's not going to capitulate to Vladimir Putin, who's trying to wipe Ukraine off the face of the map.

Speaker 5 Here, Brett Baer asks Zelensky if he thinks his public spat in the Oval Office, that's how they're framing it on Fox,

Speaker 5 would serve Ukrainians well. And Zelensky said, let me just be very clear.
Putin is a killer. I'm not going to say nice things about Putin.
Play the clip.

Speaker 7 Do you think the public spat in the Oval Office in front of the media served Ukrainians well today?

Speaker 6 I think

Speaker 6 this kind of spat is,

Speaker 6 I mean, this

Speaker 6 we have, I mean, this is not good for both sides anyway.

Speaker 6 And I will

Speaker 6 very open, but I can't, you know, change

Speaker 6 our Ukrainian attitude to Russia. And I don't want they're killers for us.

Speaker 6 You know, this is very, very clear that Americans are the best of our friends, Europeans are the best of our friends, and Putin with Russia, they are enemies.

Speaker 6 And it doesn't mean that we don't want peace. We just want to recognize the reality.

Speaker 9 The real statement.

Speaker 5 Now, while that was taking place, Donald Trump wanted to hog the media attention.

Speaker 5 And Donald Trump then told the media, what would have made him happy is if Zelensky would have said nice things about Putin. Donald Trump says, why is he saying mean things about Putin?

Speaker 5 He needs to be nicer to Putin. This is what Trump just said.
Here, play the clip.

Speaker 5 What?

Speaker 11 He's got to say, I want to make peace. He doesn't have to stand there and say about

Speaker 11 Putin this, Putin that,

Speaker 11 all negative things. He's got to say, I want to make peace.
I don't want to fight a war any longer. His people are dying.

Speaker 5 He doesn't have to. Then Donald Trump attacks Zelensky while Zielinski is basically doing this interview on Fox.
And Donald Trump tries to like mock Zelensky and Trump's wearing the MAGA hat.

Speaker 5 This whole thing is just so humiliating for the United States. And Donald Trump's like, what? He thinks he's a big shot here.
Play this clip.

Speaker 11 He doesn't want to do that. That's fine.

Speaker 10 Do it better than this.

Speaker 11 I want it to end immediately. I want to ceasefire now.
He said, oh, I don't want a ceasefire. Well, all of a sudden, he's a big shot because he has the U.S.
on his side.

Speaker 10 Either we're going to end it or let him fight it out. And if he fights it out, it's not going to be pretty.
Because without it, without us, he doesn't win. Liberty.

Speaker 10 It doesn't matter what I'm considering. I'm just telling you, you saw what I saw today.
That was not a man that wanted to make peace. And I'm only interested if he wants to end the bloodshed.

Speaker 10 Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 Back to Zelensky's interview on Fox. Zelensky says he's thankful for Americans.
Play this clip.

Speaker 7 President Trump said after your meeting that you disrespected him and the vice president and all of America in the Oval Office.

Speaker 8 Do you think you did?

Speaker 7 And do you think you owe an apology to President Trump?

Speaker 6 Thank you so much. First of all, thank you for your invitation, for this dialogue, and good evening to all your countries, to all Americans.
I'm very thankful to

Speaker 6 Americans for all your support. You did a lot.
I'm thankful to President Trump and to Congress bipartisan support. And I was always very thankful from all our people.

Speaker 6 You helped us a lot from the very beginning during three years of full-scale innovation. You helped us.

Speaker 5 How many more times do you want to hear him say that? And before I've heard him say that he was thankful for Donald Trump, even though he shouldn't have to even say that.

Speaker 5 I've heard him repeatedly make those comments. What did Donald Trump want him to do at the Oval Office? I think Donald Trump said it before, praise Putin, which Zelensky would not do.

Speaker 5 That's what Trump and J.D. Vance were trying to bully him to do.

Speaker 5 That's what they thought the art of the deal was when it was really the art of the steel and the shakedown, trying to extort Ukraine into some ridiculous rare earth mineral deal when Donald Trump promised that he was going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours.

Speaker 5 But what was Trump's plan the whole time to steal the rare earth minerals from Ukraine? What the hell is even going on right now?

Speaker 5 Here is President Zelensky saying how he respects the soldiers and the people of Ukraine too much, again, to kiss Putin's ring in the Oval Office. Play this clip.

Speaker 7 Do you want to continue fighting? Do you want peace? And if he had the opportunity to go back to the White House right now, would you do it?

Speaker 6 No, first of all, we want peace. That's why I'm in the United States.
That's why I visited President Trump. And thanks for the invitation again.

Speaker 6 The deal on minerals is the first step to security guarantees. It's meant for the peace, closer to peace.
That's why I'm here.

Speaker 6 And I have, we have a tough situation to understand it is to be in Ukraine. You saw it, Brad.
You was once. Thank you again.
So I think that's very important to understand what's going on. But I

Speaker 6 respect my soldiers and our people, our civilians who work and support our warriors. I can't say just stop.
Nobody will stop because everybody is afraid that Putin will come back tomorrow.

Speaker 6 We want just and lasting peace. It's true.
We want security guarantees. We raised this topic about NATO, the quickest way, but not all the countries are on this side.

Speaker 6 I said, okay, if not NATO, nobody is pushing. If not NATO, let's build NATO in Ukraine.
That's my position. Europeans are ready to have have contingents on our territory, boots on the ground.

Speaker 6 United States thinks maybe to help, maybe USA

Speaker 6 backstop have to be just to guarantee that they are with Europeans. Look at Europe.
It's strong. It became stronger, but they also want to have allies like the United States.
That's what I said.

Speaker 6 I just want to understand what the peace is. It's not my question, Brad.
This is the question from all our people.

Speaker 5 You mentioned when I traveled then, Donald Trump outside saying that Putin needs to, I mean, he goes, Putin is right, and we were saying before, or Zelensky needs to stop the fighting with Putin here.

Speaker 5 Play this clip.

Speaker 11 Let them fight it out.

Speaker 11 I want anybody that's going to make peace. If he's capable of making peace, which he may or may not be, but I want somebody that's going to make peace.
Again, he doesn't have the cards.

Speaker 11 When we sign up, he's got all of the cards. That doesn't mean he can fight.
He's got to stop the fighting, stop the death. He's losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
It's time to stop the death.

Speaker 5 Then Donald Trump keeps talking about the cards. The cards, you can't embolden somebody that doesn't have the cards.
Play this clip.

Speaker 11 Look, I don't trust or distrust anybody. I just want to get a deal done.
And if the deal happens, good.

Speaker 11 But you can't embolden somebody that does not have the cards. And all of a sudden, that person says, oh, well, now I can keep fighting.

Speaker 11 We're not going to keep fighting. You're going to get the war done or let them go and see what happens.
Let them fight it out.

Speaker 5 Then you had Ukrainian parliament member right here, Rudick, and here she talks about

Speaker 5 the American people don't tell Ukraine who should be their leader or not. Play this clip.

Speaker 12 Kira, what is your reaction to hearing Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and even others within the administration saying that Zelensky would have to fundamentally change his point of view or potentially step down?

Speaker 14 With all due respect, in Ukraine, we elect our own presidents. And we are known to start revolutions if we think that they are not acting at our best interest.

Speaker 14 So it's not up to Russian president or American president or American officials to tell Ukrainian people who should be our president.

Speaker 5 And here the Ukrainian parliament member says, we hope Zelensky knows that he had the full support of the Ukrainian people in parliament. Play this clip.

Speaker 14 But on a personal level, I just really hoped that

Speaker 14 when he was in the Oval Office and standing up to President Trump, that he knew and felt that his country is behind him and his people are behind him.

Speaker 12 Kira Rudek, thank you so much for sharing your perspective. We appreciate you joining us.

Speaker 14 Thank you. And glory to Ukraine.

Speaker 5 Here she is again. Play this clip.

Speaker 14 And the positions of President Zelensky and President Trump

Speaker 14 cannot be moved closer to each other because President President Zelensky is representing the country that is at war.

Speaker 14 And it seems that President Trump still does not believe that the war is real and is killing people every single day. And President Zelensky is representing people who are fighting every single day.

Speaker 14 And

Speaker 14 he wants to end the war more than anyone else, as all of all of us because it's us being killed every day and every night.

Speaker 14 What we didn't hear in all those back and forth, again, are what the actual security guarantees that Ukraine is getting if we are signing the deal. We did not hear that.

Speaker 14 We only heard that President Trump trusts Putin and that Putin will be afraid. There is one thing that we need to take as a fact.

Speaker 14 We did not see any single actual thing that would support this belief that Putin wants peace.

Speaker 14 The attacks on Kiev and other cities of Ukraine did not stop one day and the battles at the front line continue. Russia has started the war.
They can end the war if they pull their troops and simply

Speaker 14 stop killing us every single day and return children that they kidnapped and return our prisoners of war.

Speaker 14 That doesn't happen and we did not hear nor from President Trump, nor from his team, of how these security guarantees would be working. And this is the most important.
I regret that

Speaker 14 situation got very emotional, but we did not capitulate in 2022 when we were absolutely alone and nobody was behind us.

Speaker 14 And we will not capitulate right now when we have been fighting for so long and we have so many European allies and so many people of America supporting us and standing behind us.

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Speaker 5 Now, let me show you what Donald Trump was saying as well, how the meeting didn't work out well. Let's play it.

Speaker 11 We had a meeting today, as you know, with President Zelensky, and I would say it didn't work out exactly great from his standpoint. I think he very much overplayed his hand.

Speaker 11 We're looking for peace. We're not looking for somebody that's going to sign up as strong power and then not make peace because they feel emboldened, and that's what I saw happening.

Speaker 11 I'm looking for peace. We're not looking to go into a 10-year war and

Speaker 11 play games. We want peace.

Speaker 5 More from Zelensky right here.

Speaker 2 Let's play it.

Speaker 7 Yeah. So the question today is: can Ukraine win this war or hold off Russia without continued U.S.
support?

Speaker 6 It will be difficult for us. That's why I'm here.
That's why we speak about the future negotiations.

Speaker 6 It will be difficult without your support, but we can't lose our values, our people, we can't lose our freedom. So a lot of people

Speaker 6 Russians came to our territory, you know it, Russians came to our houses and everybody know everybody saw it, video images, a lot of things.

Speaker 6 They killed so many people just to forget it just to say that Putin is great guy no without us we don't want it that's why that's why we speak about you know everybody remembered how it was the first days of the war how they came nobody wants in Ukraine yes of course nobody will forget it but nobody wants to have again new wave of occupation that's why when we say no NATO what security guarantees can we have I'm not pushing we are not pressuring we're just asking we are just sharing very clear messages to our friends, to Americans.

Speaker 6 If you stay with us, thank you so much. But let's do let's do the infrastructure of security guarantees.
Let's just share with our people, just with our people, that America, stay with us.

Speaker 6 That's great. We count on it.
But just to share it and to say it, that's all.

Speaker 5 How does the and by the way, here was Donald Trump several months ago during the election saying that he would bring peace in 24 hours and he would get a deal done.

Speaker 5 But it seems the only deal he's been focused on is stealing Ukrainian rare earth minerals or material and doing that deal. What the hell is even going on here? Here, play this clip.

Speaker 8 I could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours.

Speaker 14 Yes, I could. How would you do that?

Speaker 8 I know Zelensky very well.

Speaker 8 I'll end that war between those two countries in 24 hours. It won't even take that long.

Speaker 8 I will get the war ended. I'll stop all of those lives from being wasted and lost.

Speaker 8 And there'll be no more bombing of Ukraine. There'll be no more bombing of Russia.
And everybody will be happy. It can be negotiated, I think, within 24 hours.

Speaker 8 It really has to be done from the office of the president.

Speaker 8 And you have to get them both in a room. And there are things you can say to each one of them, which I won't reveal now, which will guarantee that this war will end immediately.

Speaker 8 Say this. I will end that war in one day.
It'll take 24 hours. I would have a deal done in 24 hours from the time we started.

Speaker 8 And I would would tell Zelensky something, and I would tell Putin something, and I'd get him into a room, and I'd tell him again and again. I would have a deal done very quickly.

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