Zelenskyy thanked Trump many times at Oval Office Meeting

London (AP) – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy This time I wasn’t going to risk being accused of being ungrateful.

With peace negotiations at the table and the opportunity to rebound from his tragic White House, which he had old six months ago, Zelensky made his thanks to the US president. Donald Trump meanwhile Monday meeting in an oval office.

In fact, he said he was grateful to Trump and others nine times in the first minute of a short public meeting, ahead of a brief press conference.

“Thank you so much, President,” he said. “First of all, I would like to thank you for the invitation and for your hard work, for your personal efforts to stop the murder and stop this war. Thank you.”

Zelensky’s meeting with Trump was soon caught up in a public relations disaster when Vice President J.D. Vance accused him of not being fully grateful.

“We should thank the president for trying to end this conflict,” Vance said the moment Zelensky was caught off guard. “Have you ever said thank you once? In this whole meeting? No, have you ever said thank you in this whole meeting?”

Zelensky tried to protect himself by saying that he had always expressed his gratitude to the United States for the military and financial support that Russia provided after it invaded it in 2022. However, the damage was done.

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As there was an opportunity to make a second impression in the same environment, the appreciation diplomacy was the forefront and center for Zelensky and his companions.

In addition to thanking the president six times, Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude to Melania Trump I personally write about Russian President Vladimir Putin Thinking about Ukrainian children and encouraging peace.

And he thanked the European allies twice who arrived in Washington in aid of aid to present a unified front to promote ceasefires and security assurances if there is a peace agreement with Russia.

At his second meeting with top European leaders, Zelensky expressed his appreciation at least seven times, including two mentions of the map Trump presented to him.

“By the way, thank you for the map,” he said.

He was not alone.

Trump himself used the T-words about 12 times at later meetings, celebrating fellow European leaders.

He called Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a great leader with a long career and said he liked French President Emmanuel Macron even more as he came to know him.

British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer thanked the president four times, noting that after three years of battle, no one else could bring the conflict to a possible end.

“So I thank you for that,” Starmer said.

NATO Secretary General Mark Latte called Trump “Dear Donald” during the meeting and later called the president “surprising.”

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