The shocking blow-up between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday continues to ripple across the globe, including through American voters who expressed frustration at one or both leaders.
The extraordinary scene saw Vice-President JD Vance accuse the Ukrainian president of being “disrespectful” to the US, while Trump urged him to make a deal with Russia “or we are out”.
Trump also accused the Ukrainian president of “gambling with World War Three” as Zelensky pushed back at suggestions that he should work harder to agree a ceasefire with Vladimir Putin. Zelensky was eventually told to leave the White House early.
World leaders and elected officials in the US have had much to say about the tense exchange, but so do American voters. We’ve asked five people what they think.
Christopher Carey, 51, Republican
This South Carolina voter aligns himself with the Trump administration but he was frustrated by the Oval Office spat and wants the US to continue to back Ukraine.
It never should have happened. I blame both [Zelensky and Trump].
Zelensky did come across as arrogant, frankly. I get he was trying to make his point but he doesn’t know how to deal with Trump. [UK Prime Minister Keir] Starmer knows how to deal with Trump, [French Prime Minister Emmanuel] Macron knows how to deal with Trump, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin definitely knows how to deal with Trump, but [Zelsnsky] doesn’t know how to handle Trump.
Some of what Trump says is true. When he said Ukraine doesn’t have the cards, [Zelesnky] doesn’t have the cards.
But Zelesnky does have the cards in so far as saying that we will feel it in America shortly after Europe feels it, if Putin is appeased, because [Putin will] just reconstitute his forces and invade somebody else.
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