President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s White House sit-down got off to a rocky start on Friday when the American leader blamed his counterpart for escalating the war in his country, prompting a testy back-and-forth and the cancellation of a joint press conference.
Vice President JD Vance joined the tense conversation to accuse the Ukrainian leader of being “disrespectful” ahead of a planned signing of a deal on Ukrainian mineral rights.
