“A Head On Collision”: Donald Trump Shouts At Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky In Stunning Oval Office Exchange​on February 28, 2025 at 6:03 pm

TV news anchors were left stunned after Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky got into a tense Oval Office exchange, with the president at points shouting at the Ukrainian leader.

Trump berated Zelensky, in an exchange that seemed to be have been triggered by Vice President JD Vance suggesting that the Ukrainian leader had not thanked the president and was “disrespectful.”

“You don’t have the cards right now,” Trump shouted at Zelensky, as the president then veered into other gripes, like the Russian collusion investigation and Hunter Biden laptop, suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin was falsely accused and had been a bit of a victim.

But Zelensky tried to make the case that Putin could not be trusted, noting that he broke a previous ceasefire following the Russian invasion of Crimea.

The 15-minute exchange was run across the TV news networks, ending with Trump telling reporters, “This is going to be great television.”

After CNN ran the video, Christiane Amanpour said, “Never in the history of modern diplomacy — war, peace whatever — I have I ever seen anything like it.”

Anchor Dana Bash said, “This was a head-on collision.”