Speaker Mike Johnson calls out Zelenskyy over conduct throughout Trump assembly

Home Speaker Mike Johnson known as out Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday for interrupting and berating President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance throughout their assembly on the White Home, and stated he was shocked by his conduct. 

“The one that walked away from the desk yesterday was President Zelenskyy. I imply, look, I’ve been concerned in a number of bilateral conferences like this with heads of state and dignitaries. There’s a sure protocol to those occasions. However for him to behave as he did was reasonably surprising to everybody. I imply, President Zelenskyy, as an alternative of displaying gratitude, he interrupted and berated his hosts at a really perilous time for his nation. He ought to have been anxious, I believe, to enter into this settlement,” Johnson stated. 

CNN’s Dana Bash requested Johnson to answer Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s response to the Trump-Zelenskyy conflict. Murkowski accused Trump of “strolling away from our allies and embracing Putin,” in a put up on X.

“The mineral rights settlement can be a win-win for each nations. It could give us an financial curiosity there, and everybody all over the world is aware of that America will at all times defend our pursuits and our folks. We might have created an financial partnership with Ukraine at a time when it must be reemerging. And that might have been an incredible factor,” Johnson continued.

Home Speaker Johnson known as out President Zelenskyy on Sunday over his conduct on the White Home.  (Screenshot/CNN)

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“And I don‘t perceive why President Zelenskyy wouldn’t settle for that gratefully. And I believe it’s an enormous mistake. And I hope he alters his thoughts as a result of we’ve received to deliver an finish to this battle,” the speaker continued. 

Johnson additionally spoke to NBC Information’ Kristen Welker on Sunday throughout “Meet the Press,” throughout which Johnson was pressed on whether or not the U.S. was abandoning Ukraine. 

“I used to be with the president a day earlier than that assembly, and he was enthusiastic about this mineral rights deal. He believed it, and all of us believed it to be in one of the best curiosity of each nations. It’s not the President and the Vice President that berated Zelenskyy. I noticed it the opposite means round. I noticed Zelenskyy reasonably stiff-necked within the Oval Workplace as an alternative of being gracious and saying, ‘Thanks,’ and on the lookout for a means out of this mess. He did fairly the other,” Johnson stated.

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as U.S. Vice President JD Vance reacts on the White Home in Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2025.  (REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photograph)

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“It’s fairly absurd for anybody within the media or Democrats to one way or the other proclaim that President Trump, the White Home or Republicans in Congress are on Putin’s aspect,” Johnson informed Welker. 

Johnson was pressed on what he considered Russia’s Vladimir Putin throughout his CNN interview as properly. 

“I believe Vladimir Putin is an old-school communist, a former KGB agent. And he’s to not be trusted, and he’s harmful. The best way I view that is that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are engaged in a brand new axis powers, and they don’t seem to be on America’s aspect,” he responded.

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Trump accused Zelenskyy of “disrespecting” the U.S. throughout their assembly Friday and stated the Ukrainian chief was not able to safe peace for his nation. 

“I’ve decided that President Zelenskyy just isn’t prepared for peace if America is concerned, as a result of he feels our involvement provides him an enormous benefit in negotiations,” Trump stated in a Fact Social put up Friday. “I do not need benefit, I need PEACE. He disrespected the US of America in its cherished Oval Workplace. He can come again when he’s prepared for Peace.”