Zelensky Was Supposed to Sign Agreement Two Prior Times Before Friday

Zelensky was supposed to sign off on agreements two times prior to Friday’s disaster. 

FOX News reports:

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had already twice refused to sign a minerals deal with the United States.

“This has to be one of the greatest diplomatic mishaps of all time by President Zelenskyy,” Bessent said in an interview Friday with Laura Ingraham, host of Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”

Bessent explained that Zelenskyy told him during a meeting in Kyiv that he would not sign a mineral deal, which would exchange billions of dollars in US aid funding for rare earths and other resources from Ukraine. Zelenskyy also refused to close the deal with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Bessent stated.

On Friday, Trump and Vance reprimanded Zelenskyy in full view of reporters, with cameras rolling. The tense exchange led to a canceled meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump.

“It was supposed to be a great day and this is one of the biggest own goals in diplomatic history,” Bessent said, referencing a soccer term about scoring against your own team.

“Today, I was shocked that he would behave like this on camera in front of the world,” he added.

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt shared: 

Zelenskyy could have signed the deal five days earlier but wanted to come to the White House.

He’d been difficult for two weeks. Yet he wanted the White House meeting. Trump was upbeat about it even just the day before publicly and privately the day of.

Although he could have reset the whole thing Zelenskyy was antagonistic and over the top.

There are no more cards to play. No more “it could be your sons next” or “one more year and we’ll have them on their knees.”

America has to move to our core interests now: Homeland and China.

All he had to do was smile for the cameras, sign the minerals deal and have lunch. That’s it. He couldn’t do it. He failed his country and the relatively standard practice for an Oval Office meeting like this.

There are now serious questions if we can even deal with him. He blew it.

He had a one foot putt but was more interested in litigating issues that should be discussed behind closed doors (and have been) in public.

It is in the national interest of the U.S. for there to be a peace deal. Now.

Trump ran on this. It’s not a surprise.

There will be no more money for war there. Not from us.

Now is the time for peace.

Zelenskyy could have signed the deal five days earlier but wanted to come to the White House.

He’d been difficult for two weeks. Yet he wanted the White House meeting. Trump was upbeat about it even just the day before publicly and privately the day of.

Although he could have…

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) March 1, 2025

It was a total disaster for Zelensky who looked like a coked up idiot staring into space and then talking over President Trump the next second.

Zelensky is a total disaster.