UPDATE: Zelensky Changes Attitude - Ukrainian President Blows Up Mineral Rights Deal in Oval Office

On Friday, President Donald Trump expelled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from the White House after Zelensky made remarks deemed “disrespectful” during a media appearance before their scheduled private discussions and the anticipated signing of the high-profile minerals agreement.

After the tense exchange in the Oval Office and Zelensky’s departure, the White House confirmed that the minerals deal was not signed. In a follow-up statement, President Trump remarked that Zelensky would be welcome back at the White House “when he is ready for Peace.”

(NEWSMAX) Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he’s "devastated" after watching what happened at the White House between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump and that Ukraine should replace Zelenskyy if he doesn’t apologize.

“What I saw in the Oval Office was disrespectful, and I don’t know if we could ever do business with Zelensky again,” Graham said outside the White House after Trump canceled a scheduled joint press conference with Zelenskyy and ordered him out.

“I think most Americans saw a guy that they would not want to go into business with, the way he handled the meeting,” he added, describing Zelenskyy’s approach as “just over the top.”

UPDATE 3-4-25: After lecturing President Trump and the American people in the Oval Office only to be kicked out by the President, Ukraine's Zelensky posted on X that he is 'committed to peace' and ready to sign the mineral rights deal anytime, anyplace.

Not only that, but the Ukrainian President also acknowledged the lethal anti-tank weapons that President Trump gave them in his first term. It can be argued that those anti-tank Javelins were key to holding off the initial onslaught of Russia's invasion preventing them from taking the entire country. Trump could very well be right. Ukraine would be a vassal-state of Russia were it not for President Trump.

“Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be,” Zelenskyy posted in a lengthy statement to X. “It is regrettable that it happened this way."

“It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive.”

It's a dramatic reversal of Zelensky's obstinate and ungrateful attitude in that infamous White House signing ceremony turned acrimony. And it's also a testament to the leverage the United States has to get two waring nations to the negotiating table.