President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were scheduled to sign a minerals deal Friday at the White House and then hold a joint press conference in a choreographed show of solidarity aimed at repairing their increasingly fraught relationship.
Instead, Trump effectively kicked Zelensky out of the White House and canceled the press conference after a remarkably heated exchange with Ukraine's leader in the Oval Office — a dramatic turn of events that ratcheted up tensions between the two leaders and put Trump's push for a quick peace deal in Ukraine in doubt.
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