{"id":61967,"date":"2025-03-02T04:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T04:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61967"},"modified":"2025-03-02T04:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T04:22:51","slug":"trump-zelensky-clash-at-white-house-over-russia-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/02\/trump-zelensky-clash-at-white-house-over-russia-truce\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Zelensky Clash at White House Over Russia Truce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A heated confrontation erupted at the White House on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over peace talks with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, intended to finalize a U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal, quickly spiraled into a tense exchange, with Trump accusing Zelensky of being \u201cungrateful\u201d for American aid.<\/p>\n<p>Trump insisted Ukraine must make \u201ccompromises\u201d with Russia, while Zelensky, showing images of war atrocities, firmly rejected any deal with \u201ca killer on our territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fallout led to an abrupt end to the meeting, with Zelensky leaving without signing the deal or holding a planned press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to social media, Trump blasted Zelensky as \u201cdisrespectful\u201d and declared him \u201cnot ready for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic face-off casts doubt on U.S. mediation efforts, as European allies rally behind Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye A heated confrontation erupted at the White House on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over peace talks with Russia. The meeting, intended to finalize a U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal, quickly spiraled into a tense exchange, with Trump accusing Zelensky of being \u201cungrateful\u201d for American aid. Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61969,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61967\/revisions\/61969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}