Waltz: Die Ukraine muss mit Zelensky inmitten „Frustration“ „abschwächen“.

National security adviser Mike Waltz said Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to “tone it down” amid his escalating feud with President Trump.

In an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Waltz said, “There’s obviously a lot of frustration here,” pointing to Zelensky’s apparent resistance to signing a proposed agreement to supply the U.S. with rare earth minerals in exchange for military support.

Waltz said not just Trump, but Vice President Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are also “frustrated” with Zelensky after meeting with him last week.

“And that’s because we presented the Ukrainians really an incredible and historic opportunity to have the United States of America co-invest with Ukraine, invest in its economy,” and provide Ukraine “the best security guarantee they could ever hope for, much more than another pallet of ammunition,” Waltz said.

“Why we’re getting this pushback and certainly this, kind of, as the vice president said, ‘bad-mouthing’ in the press for all the administration has done, in his first term as well, and all the United States has done for Ukraine, it’s just — it’s unacceptable,” Waltz continued.

“They need to tone it down and take a hard look and sign that deal,” he added.

Bessent, who visited Ukraine last week, said [striking an economic deal](https://thehill.com/policy/international/5152802-scott-bessent-trump-ukraine-rare-earth-minerals/) would send a message to Russia that Washington stands alongside Kyiv and would “provide a long-term security shield for all Ukrainians.” The Treasury secretary said last week that he gave a draft of the proposal to Zelensky.

Trump has said he wants Kyiv to give some $500 billion worth of rare earth elements to the U.S. as a way of repaying the economic and military aid Washington has provided since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

A testy back-and-forth has quickly escalated after Ukraine was left out of talks between U.S. and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia earlier this week, drawing a rebuke from Zelensky.

Trump responded Tuesday with unfounded allegations that Zelensky “started” the war, with the Ukrainian leader responding Wednesday that the U.S. president was living in a “web of disinformation.”

Trump took to Truth Social hours later, calling Zelensky a “dictator without election” who was doing a “terrible job.”

Vance criticized Zelensky’s retort to Trump, telling the Daily Mail on Wednesday, “The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president’s mind by badmouthing him in public media … everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration.”

Yeah, Ukraine isn’t the problem.

It’s wild that the two heads of a country are both former TV show actors or whatever, and one is actually doing a job as a real President and the other one is just angrily tweeting from his phone and picking fights.

It’s giving abuser vibes too. Accusing the other person of being aggressive as the aggressor is classic gaslighting, and it’s sad to see so many Americans that have drunk the Kool aid.

That’s what happens when you call someone a dictator….Jesus Christ