特朗普和万斯在椭圆形办公室大声斥责泽连斯基
【中美创新时报2025 年 2 月 28 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）周五，特朗普总统和副总统 JD Vance 在电视上大声斥责乌克兰总统泽连斯基，这是一场激烈的对骂，与现代美国总统和外国领导人在椭圆形办公室发生的任何对骂都不一样。《纽约时报》记者Peter Baker对此作了下述报道。
在一场异常不愉快的会议上，人们情绪激动，大声争吵。
周五，特朗普总统和副总统 JD Vance 在电视上大声斥责乌克兰总统泽连斯基，这是一场激烈的对骂，与现代美国总统和外国领导人在椭圆形办公室发生的任何对骂都不一样。
特朗普和万斯严厉批评泽连斯基对美国在乌克兰与俄罗斯战争中给予的支持不够感激，并试图强迫他按照美国提出的任何条件达成和平协议。特朗普怒不可遏，威胁说如果泽连斯基不同意，他将彻底放弃乌克兰。
万斯打断了乌克兰领导人的话，告诉泽连斯基，他来到椭圆形办公室在美国新闻媒体面前陈述自己的观点是“不尊重”的，并要求他感谢特朗普的领导。特朗普插话道，告诉乌克兰领导人：“你现在的处境真的不太好”，“你在拿第三次世界大战赌博。”
“你要么达成协议，要么我们出局，”特朗普补充道。“如果我们出局，你们就会打起来，我认为结果不会很好。”
电视镜头前的对话是椭圆形办公室有史以来最戏剧性的时刻之一，凸显了特朗普上任以来美国与乌克兰的彻底决裂。特朗普实际上站在俄罗斯一边，错误地指责乌克兰发动战争，并称泽连斯基为“独裁者”。
尽管特朗普上周如此声称，但俄罗斯在 2014 年首次袭击乌克兰，然后在 2022 年发动全面入侵。尽管乌克兰大选在过去三年因戒严而暂停，但泽连斯基在 2019 年以压倒性优势当选总统。相比之下，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京是一位真正的独裁者，他的选举被广泛认为是欺诈行为，并因战争罪面临国际逮捕令。
周五，特朗普总统和乌克兰总统泽连斯基在白宫。图片来源：Eric Lee/纽约时报
周四，在白宫会晤前，特朗普似乎试图将与泽连斯基的分歧放在一边，对是否仍将这位乌克兰领导人视为独裁者的问题置之不理。
“我说过吗？”特朗普问道。“我不敢相信自己说过这样的话。下一个问题。”
在随后与英国首相基尔·斯塔默举行的新闻发布会上，特朗普没有回答是否应该为称泽连斯基为独裁者而向泽连斯基道歉的问题。“我们将举行一次非常好的会晤，”他说。“我非常尊重他。”
他上周对泽连斯基的尖锐言辞与他对普京的评价形成了鲜明对比，自赢得第二任期以来，他一直对普京表示赞赏。就在本周，特朗普称普京是“一个非常聪明的人”和“一个非常狡猾的人”。他说，他相信普京真的希望和平，并在周四补充说，如果达成协议，“他会信守诺言”，尽管俄罗斯过去曾多次违反协议。
虽然特朗普曾与普京通电话，但他几乎没有透露他希望如何谈判停火或持久和平协议。在去年的竞选中，他承诺在 24 小时内结束战争，甚至在就职典礼前就承诺了，但他实际上并没有做到。
在周四与斯塔默举行的新闻发布会上，特朗普对自己实现和平的机会表达了乐观和宿命论的混合看法。“我认为这会发生，希望很快，”他说。“如果不很快发生，可能根本不会发生。”
斯塔默和其他欧洲领导人已提出在战斗停止后向乌克兰地面多国维和部队派遣部队。但特朗普抵制了派遣美军（即使没有地面部队）提供帮助的压力，也拒绝向乌克兰提供安全保障，以防俄罗斯再次发动侵略。
自上任以来，特朗普一直要求乌克兰移交部分自然资源，作为对小约瑟夫·拜登总统为抵御俄罗斯而提供的军事援助的回报。虽然特朗普谎称美国贡献了 3500 亿美元，欧洲只贡献了 1000 亿美元，但事实上，根据基尔世界经济研究所的数据，欧洲贡献了 1380 亿美元，而美国贡献了 1190 亿美元。
根据《纽约时报》审阅的稀有矿产协议草案，乌克兰将贡献其未来自然资源货币化收入的一半，包括关键矿产、石油和天然气。特朗普周四称该协议对经济发展有利。“这对两国都有好处，”他说。
图片：特朗普总统用手指指着乌克兰总统泽连斯基，坐在椭圆形办公室壁炉前大喊大叫。坐在他旁边的泽连斯基一边打手势一边看着特朗普。周五，特朗普总统和乌克兰总统泽连斯基在椭圆形办公室的会晤变得不愉快。来源：Doug Mills/纽约时报
附原英文报道：
Trump Administration Live Updates: Trump and Vance Loudly Rebuke Zelensky in Oval Office
ImagePresident Trump points his finger at President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and appears to be shouting while sitting in front of the Oval Office fireplace. Mr. Zelensky, sitting next to him, is gesturing and watching Trump.
A meeting between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in the Oval Office turned fractious on Friday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
Updated Feb. 28, 2025 Peter BakerWhite House reporter
Tempers flare and voices are raised in a remarkably fractious meeting.
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance loudly berated President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Friday in an explosive televised shouting match unlike any seen in the Oval Office between an American president and foreign leader in modern times.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance castigated Mr. Zelensky for not being grateful enough for U.S. support in its war with Russia and sought to strong-arm him into making a peace deal on whatever terms the Americans dictate. With voices raised and tempers flaring, Mr. Trump threatened to abandon Ukraine altogether if Mr. Zelensky did not go along.
Talking over the Ukrainian leader, Mr. Vance told Mr. Zelensky that it was “disrespectful” for him to come to the Oval Office and make his case in front of the American news media and demanded that he thank Mr. Trump for his leadership. Mr. Trump jumped in and told the Ukrainian leader, “You’re not really in a good position right now” and that “you’re gambling with World War III.”
“You’re either going make a deal or we’re out,” Mr. Trump added. “And if we’re out, you’ll fight it out and I don’t think it’s going to be pretty.”
The exchange in front of television cameras was one of the most dramatic moments ever to play out in public in the Oval Office and underscored the radical break between the United States and Ukraine since Mr. Trump took office. Mr. Trump has effectively sided with Russia while falsely blaming Ukraine for starting the war and calling Mr. Zelensky a “dictator.”
Despite Mr. Trump’s claim last week, it was Russia that first attacked Ukraine in 2014 and then mounted a full-scale invasion in 2022. Although Ukrainian elections have been suspended for the past three years under martial law, Mr. Zelensky became president on the back of a landslide election victory in 2019. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, by contrast, is an actual dictator whose elections have been widely dismissed as frauds and who faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes.
President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the White House on Friday.Credit…Eric Lee/The New York Times
Mr. Trump had seemed to be trying to put his rift with Mr. Zelensky to the side on Thursday before their meeting at the White House, brushing off a question about whether he still considers the Ukrainian leader a dictator.
“Did I say that?” Mr. Trump asked. “I can’t believe I said that. Next question.”
At a later news conference with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, Mr. Trump did not respond to a question about whether he owed Mr. Zelensky an apology for calling him a dictator. “We’re going to have a very good meeting,” he said. “I have a lot of respect for him.”
His sharp language last week about Mr. Zelensky contrasted with his assessment of Mr. Putin, whom he has only praised since winning a second term. Just this week, the president called Mr. Putin “a very smart guy” and “a very cunning person.” He said that he believes that Mr. Putin really wants peace and added on Thursday that “he’ll keep his word” if a deal is reached, despite multiple Russian violations of agreements in the past.
While he has spoken with Mr. Putin by telephone, Mr. Trump has given little sense of how he expects to negotiate either a cease-fire or an enduring peace agreement. During last year’s campaign, he promised to end the war within 24 hours and to do so even before his inauguration, neither of which he actually did.
During Thursday’s news conference with Mr. Starmer, Mr. Trump expressed a mix of optimism and fatalism about his chances of making peace. “I think it’s going to happen, hopefully quickly,” he said. “If it doesn’t happen quickly, it may not happen at all.”
Mr. Starmer and other European leaders have offered to contribute troops to a multinational peacekeeping force on the ground in Ukraine after the fighting halts. But Mr. Trump resisted pressure to commit U.S. forces to help, even without ground troops, or to offer security guarantees to Ukraine against renewed Russian aggression.
Since taking office, Mr. Trump has demanded that Ukraine turn over some of its natural resources as payback for military aid provided under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to defend itself against Russia. While Mr. Trump has falsely claimed that the United States has contributed $350 billion and Europe only $100 billion, in fact, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Europe has allocated $138 billion compared with $119 billion from the United States.
Under a draft of the rare minerals agreement reviewed by The New York Times, Ukraine would contribute half of its revenues from the future monetization of natural resources, including critical minerals, oil and gas. Mr. Trump characterized the deal on Thursday as an economic development boon. “It’ll be good for both countries,” he said.
