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title: "Zelensky Didn’t Sign the “Minerals” Deal: Explaining Trump & Vance’s Bullying Behaviour"
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**This is apparently why Trump was saying Zelensky wasn’t thankful or grateful..Vance was on the same power trip- `I'm shocked Zelensky had it in him. ` Hopefully he opens negotiations with Russia to settle the situation. Without the Trump Whitehouse.**

> [US Ukraine Mineral Deal- Shades of Iraqi reconstruction scandal- US to provide security](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/02/26/us-ukraine-mineral-deal-shades-of-iraqi-reconstruction-scandal-us-to-provide-security/)



[**A report from Fox News**](https://www.foxnews.com/world/heres-real-reason-trump-zelenskyys-deal-blew-up-oval-office)

> **Here’s the real reason Trump and Zelenskyy’s deal blew up in the Oval Office- Zelenskyy says no deal to Trump**
> 
> FIRST ON FOX: A refusal by President Donald Trump to grant a key demand made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy precipitated their explosive confrontation during a live press event at the White House.
> 
> According to sources close to Zelenskyy, tempers had flared even before the event began. **The Ukrainian president was apparently presented with a minerals for security agreement by the Trump administration prior to the press event, but the deal included no security guarantees to protect Ukraine from another Russian invasion.**
> 
> ***Zelenskyy had warned repeatedly ahead of his trip to DC that in order to reach a mineral agreement, Kyiv needed these security assurances. Even so, he angered Trump and Vance by rejecting the deal, the source said.***
> 
> **A stunned world watched Friday as Vice President JD Vance and then Trump reprimanded Zelenskyy in full view of reporters, with cameras rolling. From the moment the Oval Office event started, the dynamic between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart was noticeably different from the two other press events Trump held with world leaders this week.**
> 
> “**`We cannot just sign an…agreement without any substantial guarantees," `**one Ukrainian defense advisor told Fox News Digital. “It’s not going to work. It’s just going to reward the aggressor.”

> **`Zelenskyy’s refusal to sign a deal apparently contributed to the ire he experienced on live TV at the hands of both Trump and Vice President JD Vance.`**

> The heated spat unfolded after Trump suggested Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014 and again in 2022 because he wasn’t in office, blaming Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who sat in the Oval Office at the corresponding times.

**Trump actually said it was 2015, but,was corrected. Trump acknowledged sending weapons to Ukraine during his first term. Mentioning the Javelins he sent**

[**ABC News**](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine/story?id=65989898)

> **The Trump administration has approved the $39 million sale of defensive lethal weapons to Ukraine**, according to two U.S. officials and another source familiar with the plan.

> **The new package will include Javelin anti-tank weapons, with one U.S. official saying it includes 150 missiles and two launchers**

##### [White House official told the Independent the minerals deal was not signed](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-meeting-zelensky-ukraine-vance-b2706864.html)

> **A White House official told The Independent that the minerals deal was not signed** and said Zelensky had been asked to leave by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz.

**I****’ve covered many, many geopolitcal events for quite some time now, decades, actually. Having always been an admitted geopolitical junkie. In all that time, I can’t recall witnessing such infantile behaviour. After having watched many, many press conferences. Other US Presidents, Putin, Lavrov, Erdogan, Assad, EU leaders, Trudeau and still more. In all that time, in all those years, considering all those personalities this episode, was like no other. It was like watching school yard bullies gang up on the undersized child.**

***`My sneaking suspicion is that I see the so called minerals deal in a very different way than most-`***