February 27, 2025

President Donald Trump is playing nice with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of his visit on Friday, after a week of feuding with the wartime leader.

Trump said Thursday he and Zelenskyy have had a “very good relationship,” while speaking with reporters in the Oval Office.

The president had fired increasingly caustic barbs at Zelenskyy, as the president’s frustration with the war mounts. He first mocked Zelenskyy for being “grossly incompetent” and seemingly put the blame on Ukraine for the war Russia started. Zelenskyy hit back saying Trump was “surrounded by misinformation.” Trump then slammed Zelenskyy as “a dictator without elections” in a lengthy post on Truth Social last Wednesday, while repeating his claims that the U.S. has given billions in aid to Ukraine and that half of it has gone “missing.”

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