Trump Advisor Mike Waltz Immediately Goes Back to Bashing Zelensky After Being Asked if Putin’s Ready for Peace on Fox News

Trump National Security Advisor Mike Waltz immediately resumed bashing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after being asked if Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is really “ready for peace” on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom on Monday.

Waltz began the conversation by lamenting the “ridiculous and unacceptable” Oval Office brawl between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Zelensky last week and the fact that Zelensky is allegedly “not ready to talk peace at all.”

“I think President Zelensky truly did his country a real disservice by not having a positive outcome Friday,” said Waltz.

Anchor Bill Hemmer then recounted the European reaction to Friday’s blowup, noting that the the leaders of France, the U.K., and the European Union all expressed their support for both a ceasefire and long-term security guarantees for the Ukrainians, and that Zelensky had articulated his gratitude for the support of the West in his country’s war effort.

“If you can align all this up, sir, you then put the pressure on Putin to find out whether or not he is ready for peace,” observed Hemmer. “Does the White House believe he is at this moment?”

“Well, all of those things have to be tested, Bill. But what we don’t have right now is President Zelensky saying, ‘I am ready to take the steps necessary, and have the conversations necessary, and make the compromises necessary to end the fighting, go to a ceasefire.’ Some permutation of-, there is one-month, there’s two-week, there’s stopping long-range strikes on both sides, on each other’s energy infrastructure, all of those things are on the table. But they were on the table before last Friday as well,” answered Waltz. “And what we essentially heard was he’s not ready to talk about it as though, you know, grinding this war forward for the years to come is truly an option, and it’s not. So we’re ready to have those conversations, we had it with the Russians in Riyadh. We’re ready to have it with the Ukrainians and then engage in shuttle diplomacy. But we need to hear that latter piece from Zelensky, and we need to hear it publicly.”

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