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The Daily

The Fallout From Zelensky and Trump’s Oval Office Meltdown

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in an explosive televised Oval Office meeting and abruptly cut short a visit that was meant to help coordinate a plan for peace. Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The Times, discusses the clash and its consequences.

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0:00.0

From New York Times, I'm Michael Babarro.

0:04.0

This is the Daily.

0:11.2

Today, the fallout from the extraordinary, televised, oval office shouting match between Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky.

0:24.8

My colleague, Chief White House correspondent Peter Baker, walks us through the clash and its consequences.

0:33.0

Music It's Monday, March 3rd.

0:59.6

Peter, thank you for making time for us on a Sunday afternoon, no less.

1:00.3

We appreciate it.

1:01.4

Thanks for having me.

1:10.4

I'm curious, Peter, where in the pantheon of moments that you have witnessed at the White House over the past 30 years to date you. Does what happened in the Oval Office on Friday

1:13.8

fit, would you say? Yeah, Michael, I've been covering these meetings at White House since 1996,

1:20.8

and I've never seen anything like this. Never. You had the president of Ukraine, Vladimir

1:26.3

Zelensky, show up for a meeting with the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in the middle of a war with so much at stake.

1:33.8

And so, you know, everybody was looking to this meeting to see how it would come together.

1:38.1

I mean, it was extraordinary.

1:39.6

It was excruciating.

1:40.6

It was a brutal dressing down of a foreign leader in the Oval Office. Presidents just don't do that.

1:46.5

They get frustrated at times, and sometimes they're appointed moments, but nothing like this

1:52.6

verbal assault that we've seen, even on an adversary, much less on an ally.

1:59.0

And I think in history, we're going to look back on this as a unique singular moment.

2:04.2

Right. And not just for the spectacle of it, but for its actual consequentialness.

2:10.9

Absolutely, right. This is a rupture of a relationship now between the United States and Ukraine,

2:16.0

11 years after Russia first invaded, three years after

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