Marco Rubio Reveals What Zelensky did before cameras started rolling and said that’s the main reason he should apologize to America and Trump: ‘Zelenskyy started the war of words today by trying to …

Zelenskyy was blackmailing Biden over the Burisma scandal and Biden paid him off with hundreds of billions of US taxpayer money. Zelenskyy made the mistake of coming here thinking he was dealing with another a Biden and could dictate the terms of the deal. Not only did he break his word on the deal, he knew we weren’t prepared to agree to the level of security he expected, he thought he could push Trump and Vance around. Zelenskyy started the war of words today by trying to change the deal in front of the press and the world. Now that he blew it, he is on his own, don’t expect Europe to bail him out. The only people more upset than Zelenskyy tonight is Europe. They don’t want to deal with Zelenskyy, either, no matter what they say in public.

Marco Rubio said that Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize to Donald Trump and cast doubts on whether the Ukrainian president really wants peace after their disaster meeting.

The tense war of words played out inside the Oval Office Friday and quickly went off the rails when Trump took offense of how Zelensky treated his vice president JD Vance in front of the cameras.

In an effort to shift the blame away from Trump and Vance, whose aggression has provoked an international outcry in many of the US’s closest allies, Rubio hinted that Zelensky owes the president an apology and found his behavior leading up to the Oval Office blowout unacceptable.

‘You guys only saw the end, you don’t see all the things that led up to this. The president’s been very clear on this, he campaigned on this. He thinks this war should have never started and I agree that had he been president it never would have happened,’ Rubio stated.

‘Now here we are, he’s trying to bring an end to this conflict, we’ve explained very clearly what our plan is here: we want to get the Russians to a negotiating table, we want to explore whether peace is possible,’ he added.

Rubio’s contention was that what happened in the ten days leading up to today’s meeting led to a ‘predictable outcome’ and the meeting didn’t even have to happen, claiming they were only here to sign the deal for minerals.

Apologize for turning this thing into the fiasco that it became,’ he said, in reference to Zelensky.

‘Don’t come here and create a scenario where you’re going to start lecturing us about how diplomacy isn’t going to work. Zelensky took it in that direction and it ended in a predictable outcome as a result

Rubio then speculated that the Ukrainian president has no interest in ending the now three year-long war.

‘Maybe Zelensky doesn’t want a peace deal. That act of open undermining is deeply frustrating for everyone who’s been involved. He should apologize for wasting our time.’

He said that Trump and Vance’s policies are an attempt to change course over a war that was going nowhere under joe Biden.

Biden ‘was funding a stalemate, funding a meat grinder and the Russians have more meat to grind,’ he said of the previous administration.

Anchor Kaitlan Collins asked – as Zelensky was asked by Fox News earlier – if Trump and Zelensky’s relationship is repairable.

At one point, Rubio referenced a 2022 meeting where Joe Biden lost his temper with Zelensky and called it hypocrisy to criticize Trump.

‘I think anything is possible but it has to go back to the point that President Trump is involved in this to bring about enduring, lasting peace.’

White House officials told DailyMail.com the stunning confrontation was not any kind of premeditated tag-team operation designed to humiliate Zelensky.

Trump had been pleasant with Zelensky to start their interactions – although Trump’s first comment, caught on a hot-mic, was a glib remark about his informal clothing. (Zelensky has underdressed as a statement since Russia’s 2022 invasion of his country.)

‘Zelensky should not have gone after JD,’ said a senior White House official in the minutes after the stunning confrontation played out on television.

The official said Zelensky’s digs prompted Trump, 78, to defend his 40-year-old Number Two – and the situation quickly escalated.

The clash with the VP that kicked off the angry back-and-forth came in a meeting where Zelensky was on Trump’s turf in an effort to try to gain security guarantees in a rare earth minerals deal that Trump says will provide a form of protection by putting U.S. business interests inside his country.

The White House was looking for appreciation. Instead, some of Zelensky’s gestures got interpreted as if he couldn’t tolerate what he was hearing.

‘This was not planned at all,’ said one source familiar with the situation, denying it was any kind of premeditated ambush.

As hot as things got inside the Oval Office, there were indications President Trump was relishing the blowup after it unfolded.

This is going to be great television, I will say that,’ Trump remarked at the end.

Trump called on a U.S.-based Polish reporter who pressed him on the U.S. posture toward Russia. Trump called the question ‘stupid’. But then later on in an exchange that lasted 50 minutes, Trump called on the same reporter – whose queries prompted Vance to say Ukraine had been ungrateful for billions in U.S. support.

Vance blamed previous Democratic U.S. administrations for failing to stop Russia, but Zelensky tried to shift the conversation back to Putin. ‘He killed people,’ he said.

‘What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about,’ the Ukrainian asked, referring to Vance by his first name rather than his formal title.