The extraordinary scenes that came from the White House on Friday were the talk of the weekend – and relations between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump remain under the spotlight this week too. As Sir Keir Starmer prepares to address MPs this afternoon on Ukraine, Reform leader Nigel Farage has this morning offered up his thoughts on the fall out between the two presidents – after their meeting last week took a rather unexpected turn…
The mood of the Friday meeting between the Ukrainian president, Trump and JD Vance turned rather sour after the Vice-President hit out at Zelensky’s attitude – eventually accusing him of being ‘disrespectful’. Trump insisted that Zelensky was ‘gambling with World War Three’, before adding that it would be ‘very hard’ to do business with the Ukrainian leader. Vance interrogated Zelensky again, asking him: ‘Have you said thank you once?’ Crikey.
Speaking to LBC’s Nick Ferrari about the bust-up today, Farage took a pop at Ukraine’s leader, insisting on the airwaves that: ‘He played it very badly’.
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