[image: U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 28, 2025.]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also fell in line with Trump, thanking the president for his response to Zelensky and “standing up” for America.
The US Ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, went so far as to translate Rubio’s post into Ukrainian before sending it out on X.
Trump and Zelensky were set to sign a deal that would have created a joint US-Ukraine fund investing in extracting the country’s rare-earth mineral <nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/trump-wants-guarantee-that-us-will-get-ukraines-rare-earth-minerals-in-exchange-for-aid/> s <nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/trump-wants-guarantee-that-us-will-get-ukraines-rare-earth-minerals-in-exchange-for-aid/> upply <nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/trump-wants-guarantee-that-us-will-get-ukraines-rare-earth-minerals-in-exchange-for-aid/>. Trump had been attempting to get the Ukrainian leader to ink the agreement for weeks, even sending Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Kyiv to make it happen.
Zelensky rejected the initial deal but the two countries had gotten to an agreement on a revised draft, with the Ukrainian leader coming to Washington ostensibly to sign off on the final copy.
Instead, the framework was not signed and Trump “wanted Zelensky to leave” after the shouting match, a White House spokesperson told The Post.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also fell in line with Trump, thanking the president for his response to Zelensky and “standing up” for America.
The US Ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, went so far as to translate Rubio’s post into Ukrainian before sending it out on X.
Trump and Zelensky were set to sign a deal that would have created a joint US-Ukraine fund investing in extracting the country’s rare-earth mineral <nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/trump-wants-guarantee-that-us-will-get-ukraines-rare-earth-minerals-in-exchange-for-aid/> s <nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/trump-wants-guarantee-that-us-will-get-ukraines-rare-earth-minerals-in-exchange-for-aid/> upply <nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/trump-wants-guarantee-that-us-will-get-ukraines-rare-earth-minerals-in-exchange-for-aid/>. Trump had been attempting to get the Ukrainian leader to ink the agreement for weeks, even sending Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Kyiv to make it happen.
Zelensky rejected the initial deal but the two countries had gotten to an agreement on a revised draft, with the Ukrainian leader coming to Washington ostensibly to sign off on the final copy.
Instead, the framework was not signed and Trump “wanted Zelensky to leave” after the shouting match, a White House spokesperson told The Post.