Congressional Democrats expressed fast outrage at President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s explosive White Home assembly with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, which ended with Trump asking him to depart.
“Trump and Vance are doing Putin’s dirty work. Senate Democrats will never stop fighting for freedom and democracy,” Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer, D-NY, stated on X in response to Vance telling Zelenskyy his conduct was disrespectful and Trump saying he was “gambling with World War III.”
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This mix of images created on February 25, 2025, reveals US President Donald Trump (L) on Feb. 24, 2025, and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) on Feb. 23, 2025. (Getty Photographs)
Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-IL, claimed the Ukrainian president is owed an apology, noting, “Ukrainians have fought tooth-and-nail on the frontlines of democracy against Russian aggression.”
“Pres. Trump and VP Vance’s words to Pres. Zelenskyy are rude and utterly shameful,” he wrote.
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“Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years,” stated Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT.
“Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.”
TRUMP SAYS ZELENSKYY CAN ‘COME BACK WHEN HE IS READY FOR PEACE’ AFTER FIERY WHITE HOUSE EXCHANGE
President Donald Trump (C) and Vice President JD Vance meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky within the Oval Workplace on the White Home on Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Photographs)
Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., posted on X, “A hero and a coward are meeting in the Oval Office today. And when the meeting is over, the hero will return home to Ukraine.”
Zelenskyy joined Trump and Vance within the Oval Workplace to debate a path for peace between Russia and Ukraine, which stay at battle after the previous invaded its neighbor in 2022. Nevertheless, the dialogue rapidly devolved into chaos because the Ukrainian president challenged his U.S. counterparts in entrance of the press.
“Mr. President, with respect, I think it’s disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media,” Vance replied to Zelenskyy after he pushed again on the notion of partaking in diplomacy to finish the battle.
The Ukrainian president then departed the White Home on the request of Trump, with out signing an settlement that will give the U.S. entry to Ukraine’s important minerals in alternate for the monetary help the U.S. has given Ukraine since 2022, as a part of a negotiated peace deal.
Trump and Zelensky had been concerned in an Oval Workplace shouting match on Friday. (Fox Information )
Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., stated she was “horrified” by the alternate, including, “It is stunning that the US is now siding with dictators and not standing up for freedom, democracy, and global stability. I’m deeply concerned for the people in Ukraine and our country’s long-term national security.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-MN, instructed Vance in an X put up, “Shame on you,” for asking whether or not Zelenskyy had thanked the U.S.
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“Answer to Vance: Zelenskyy has thanked our country over and over again both privately and publicly. And our country thanks HIM and the Ukrainian patriots who have stood up to a dictator, buried their own & stopped Putin from marching right into the rest of Europe,” she wrote on X.
“Watching Trump and Vance serve as Putin’s mouthpieces in the Oval Office was one of the most shameful moments in American diplomacy,” remarked Rep. Mark Takano, D-CA, who known as for each Republican to “publicly condemn it.”
