{"id":3037,"date":"2025-02-21T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:25:39","slug":"zelensky-not-important-for-meetings-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/21\/zelensky-not-important-for-meetings-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky \u2018not important\u2019 for meetings – Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian leader\u2019s presence would only \u201cmake it very hard to make deals,\u201d the US president has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s leader Vladimir Zelensky is actually \u201cnot very important\u201d<\/em> to have at meetings, US President Donald Trump has said, adding he only makes negotiations difficult.<\/p>\n

Trump ramped up his ongoing criticism of the Ukrainian leader in an interview with Fox News\u2019 Brian Kilmeadeon on Friday, during which he suggested Zelensky was an obstacle to making any deal to end the conflict with Russia and suggested the it is \u201cnot very important\u201d<\/em> to have him at meetings at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been at meetings for three years with a very, with a president who didn\u2019t know what the hell he was doing,\u201d<\/em> Trump said, referring to his predecessor Joe Biden and dismissing Zelensky\u2019s complaints about Ukraine not being represented during recent talks between Moscow and Washington in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been at the meetings for three years and nothing got done. So I don\u2019t think he\u2019s very important to be at meetings to be honest with you\u2026 He\u2019s – he makes it very hard to make deals. But look what\u2019s happened to his country, it\u2019s been demolished,\u201d<\/em> Trump added.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the US president branded Zelensky a \u201cdictator\u201d<\/em> for refusing to hold presidential elections, and claimed the Ukrainian leader had an extremely low approval rating in his country.<\/p>\n

When repeatedly pressed by the host about whether Russia was responsible for the ongoing conflict, Trump dodged the question, suggesting that other parties were at fault. The US president also reiterated his claim that the hostilities would never have started if he had been in office at the time.<\/p>\n

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Trump brands Zelensky \u2018dictator without elections\u2019<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201dEvery time I say, oh, it\u2019s not Russia\u2019s fault, I always get slammed by the fake news. But I\u2019m telling you, Biden said the wrong things. Zelensky said the wrong things. They got attacked by somebody that\u2019s much bigger and much stronger, which is a bad thing to do, and you don\u2019t do that. But Russia could have been talked out of that so easily,<\/em>\u201d Trump asserted.<\/p>\n

Ties between Kiev and Washington appear to have rapidly deteriorated in a matter of a week, with Trump and Zelensky, as well as other senior officials from the two nations, trading various accusations. Among other things, Zelensky has claimed that the US leader was \u201cliving in a disinformation bubble\u201d<\/em> allegedly created by Russia and has also rejected a proposed deal that would give the US access to Ukraine\u2019s rare-earth minerals to compensate for military aid. He has also refuted Trump\u2019s estimates on the amount of aid Kiev has received, claiming it had not got even half of the sum.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Trump branded Zelensky a \u201cdictator without elections,\u201d<\/em> claimed that the Ukrainian leader has had an extremely low approval rating and warned that the Ukrainian leader would not \u201chave a country left\u201d<\/em> should he continue with his policies. Top US officials, including National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, said Trump has grown frustrated with Kiev\u2019s rhetoric, branding it \u201cunfortunate\u201d<\/em> and \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian leader\u2019s presence would only \u201cmake it very hard to make deals,\u201d the US president has said Ukraine\u2019s leader Vladimir Zelensky is actually \u201cnot very important\u201d to have at meetings, US President Donald Trump has said, adding he only makes negotiations difficult. Trump ramped up his ongoing criticism of the Ukrainian leader in an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}