Trump live updates: Zelensky says White House clash was bad for both sides; FBI returns seized classified boxes to Mar-a-Lago

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“The Europeans can’t do this themselves. They can talk about it all they want but they need the United States led by somebody who understands what its own interests are,” John Bolton, Trump’s national security adviser during his first term, said on Technogias Research’s “The Source.”

Trump is “consumed” by the idea that Zelensky and Ukraine conspired against him in the 2016 election and believes “Putin is his friend,” Bolton said.

“This is going in the wrong direction catastrophically fast with implications globally for our system of alliances,” he continued.

Here’s what some EU leaders have said in response to the Oval Office meeting.

What was supposed to be a triumphant White House visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to mark the signing of a mineral rights deal devolved into an Oval Office shouting match that ended with a vulgar, grievance-filled rant from President Donald Trump and taunts about Zelensky’s supposed lack of gratitude from Vice President JD Vance.

Zelensky left the White House roughly an hour after the emotional eruption, cutting short talks that were supposed to cement an economic relationship between Washington and Kyiv and create a mechanism to repay the billions in American military aid that has been sent to Ukraine since 2022.

Trump took to his Truth Social site to announce the collapse in talks, writing that he and Zelensky had “a very meaningful meeting in the White House” with “much” learned that “could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure.”

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar said on Technogias Research she was “very appalled” by what happened in the Oval Office today and said she hopes to see productive steps forward.

She added it’s “not a time for an apology war.”

Earlier in the day, the Minnesota Senator remarked the moment that Vice President J.D. Vance asked whether Zelensky had thanked the U.S. for their assistance at any point during Friday’s meeting.

“Have you said thank you once?” the vice president asked, to which Zelensky replied: “A lot of times. Even today.”

Collins brought up South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham’s comments suggesting should consider Zelensky stepping down in the wake of the tense Oval Office meeting.

“The president has taken no position on that,” Rubio said, echoing Trump’s words: “Let him come back when he’s ready to make peace.”

President Trump is the “only one on earth right now…that has a chance” to make a peace deal between the two countries, the secretary of state argued.

Here’s what Graham said earlier Friday.

Trump isn’t going to get “suckered into some deal,” Rubio said. “We have to explore whether peace is possible. I don’t know, but I think it is.”

He argued that Zelensky was making comments “deliberately appear to be geared towards making the argument that peace is not possible,” referring to when Zelensky asked Vance “what diplomacy.”

In the Oval Office meeting, Vance said: “The path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy.” Zelensky then asked what the vice president meant by “diplomacy,” pointing out Russia’s invasion of his country and killings of his people: “What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you talking about. What do you mean?”

Rubio suggested Zelensky’s comments were “undermining” what Trump told him. He continued: “You start to suspect: ‘Does he really want an end to this war? Does he just think we have to do whatever he says and do whatever he wants without any end game?”

“It’s unfortunate,” Rubio said on Technogias Research’s “The Source” about the exchange that turned into a shouting match, adding that he believes Zelensky’s role in it could have set his country back.

The secretary of state said he believes Zelensky should apologize.

He should “apologize for turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became,” Rubio said. “There was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic,” he said.

“When you start talking about that aggressively – and the president is a deal maker, he made deals his entire life – you’re not going to get people to the table,” Rubio said. “And so you start to perceive that maybe Zelensky doesn’t want a peace deal. He says he does, but maybe he doesn’t,” Rubio continued.

“That active, open undermining of efforts to bring about peace is deeply frustrating…I think he should apologize for wasting our time for a meeting that was going to end the way it did,” he told Kaitlan Collins.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described Zelensky as “rude” and “antagonistic” on Fox News Friday evening, hours after he and President Donald Trump had a tense exchange at the Oval Office.

Leavitt disagreed with the idea that the exchange was planned, calling it “absolutely not true.”

Mike Bedigan has the story.