GOP Congressman Scolds Trump Over Disastrous Zelensky Meeting: ‘A Bad Day’
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) scolded President Donald Trump over his Oval Office tirade against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, calling it “a bad day for America’s foreign policy.”
Zelensky had traveled to Washington, D.C. to sign a deal to keep the United States involved in the Ukrainian war effort and discuss the ongoing conflict between his nation and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. But the deal blew up after Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Zelensky got in a shouting match in front of the press in the Oval Office that saw Trump wax poetic about his relationship with Putin, call Zelensky “disrespectful,” and insist he didn’t “have the cards right now!”
Bacon wasn’t pleased with the performance, and deemed it “a bad day for America’s foreign policy.”
“Ukraine wants independence, free markets and rule of law. It wants to be part of the West. Russia hates us and our Western values. We should be clear that we stand for freedom,” argued Bacon.
Trump had previously falsely accused Zelensky of being a dictator responsible for starting the war between Ukraine and Russia, despite the fact that Zelensky was duly elected and the conflict began when Russia launched an invasion of Zelensky’s country in early 2022.
