Trump pauses all US military aid to Ukraine days after Oval Office blowup with Zelensky as he issues shock ultimatum

President Donald Trump is putting a pause on all military aid to Ukraine and issuing an ultimatum to President Volodymyr Zelensky after their Oval Office meeting blew up on Friday. 

The president had planned to meet with his senior advisors on Monday, according to the New York Times, where he will consider the future of Ukraine aid, even as European countries are discussing how to increase their support for Ukraine. 

A White House official said Trump is focused on reaching a peace deal to end the more than three-year war sparked by Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, and wants Zelensky ‘committed’ to that goal.

The official added that the U.S. was ‘pausing and reviewing’ its aid to ‘ensure that it is contributing to a solution.’ The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the assistance.

A second told Fox News that ‘this is not permanent termination of aid, it’s a pause’. 

All military equipment not currently in Ukraine will be halted and all future aid is now in jeopardy.

DailyMail.com has reached out the White House and the Department of Defense for comment.

Pete Hegseth was in charge of putting the pause into effect by Trump, the official said.

All military equipment not currently in Ukraine will be halted and all future aid is now in jeopardy. 

This comes after Trump appeared to have lost his patience with Zelensky, warning that ‘America will not put up with it for much longer’ following the Ukrainian president’s comments that the end of the war is ‘still very, very far away’.

‘This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelensky, and America will not put up with it for much longer,’ an infuriated Trump posted on his Truth Social website after upping the pressure on Kyiv to end the war.

Trump also questioned Zelensky’s commitment to peace, saying that he ‘doesn’t want there to be peace as long as he has America’s backing’. He also hinted that Zelensky might not be Ukrainian president much longer.

Elon Musk later branded Zelensky ‘evil’ for pushing a ‘forever war’ with Russia .

‘Zelensky wants a forever war, a never-ending graft meat grinder. This is evil,’ Musk wrote on X in reaction to Trump’s comments.

Musk also alleged in another post that Zelensky ‘wants a forever war’ because he would otherwise ‘lose his spotlight on the international stage’.

Trump hinted during a press conference on Monday that Zelensky might not survive long as Ukrainian president if he continued to make demands ahead of a peace deal.

‘It should not be that hard a deal to make,’ Trump told reporters at the White House. 

‘It could be made very fast. Now, maybe somebody doesn’t want to make a deal, and if somebody doesn’t want to make a deal, I think that person won’t be around very long. That person will not be listened to very long.’

In reply to a post on X claiming that ‘Zelensky knows if the war ends, his power ends’ and branding him a ‘dictator’, Musk said: ‘True. As distasteful as it is, Zelensky should be offered some kind of amnesty in a neutral country in exchange for a peaceful transition back to democracy in Ukraine.’

This echoes a statement by Trump, who also called Zelensky a ‘dictator’ for not holding elections in Ukraine, where Martial Law has been declared since the start of Russia’s invasion in 2022. 

On Monday, Trump was asked what Zelensky needed to do to resume talks with Washington. 

‘Well, I just think you should be more appreciative, because this country has stuck with them through thick and thin,’ he said, before repeating a falsehood about levels of American aid.

He added: ‘We’ve given them much more than Europe, and Europe should have given more than us.’

Trump has been pushing for a rapid deal to end the war in Ukraine ever since he returned to office in January. 

His administration has held talks with Kyiv on a rare earth minerals deal that would allow Washington to recoup some of its costs. 

The disruptive ending of Zelensky’s meeting at the White House on Friday with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance has thrown all future aid to Ukraine into question after the Ukrainian president was asked to leave the White House after the meeting. 

Trump reasserted his record on Ukraine, after suffering a weekend of criticism in the press for his treatment of Zelensky. 

‘The only President who gave none of Ukraine’s land to Putin’s Russia is President Donald J. Trump,’ the president wrote on Truth Social. ‘Remember that when the weak and ineffective Democrat’s criticize, and the Fake News gladly puts out anything they say!’ 

Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz warned in an interview on FOX News Channel’s America’s Newsroom Monday morning that the days of unlimited support from America to Ukraine were over. 

‘The American people’s patience is not unlimited, their wallets are not unlimited and our stockpiles and munitions are not unlimited,’ he said. ‘The time to talk is now.’ 

Waltz said that Zelensky failed to demonstrate that he was willing to work with the United States and Russia to strike a peace deal to end the war. 

‘Success looks like President Zelensky sitting down and talking the terms of peace … what became so evident to us in that session is he’s not ready to talk peace at all but here’s the problem: Time is not on his side,’ he said. 

Waltz said it was ‘really confounding’ that Zelensky blew up the meeting and lost an opportunity to work with the American people for the future of his country. 

‘I think that President Zelensky truly did his country a real disservice by not having a positive outcome on Friday and we’ll see where things are going forward,’ he concluded. 

Zelensky grew frustrated during the Oval Office meeting after Vance spoke about the importance of allowing President Trump to engage in diplomacy with Russia. 

‘What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about? What do you mean?’ he asked, after listing all of the ways that Putin had broken previous agreements with Ukraine. 

‘I’m talking about the kind of diplomacy that’s going to end the destruction of your country. Mr. President,’ Vance replied, before accusing Zelensky of being disrespectful to President Trump by trying to voice his opposition to a peace deal in front of the American media. 

After the contentious Oval Office meeting, Trump told Zelensky to leave, canceling the planned lunch, and a meeting to sign an mineral deal agreement followed by a press conference to celebrate.

‘I’m talking about the kind of diplomacy that’s going to end the destruction of your country. Mr. President,’ Vance replied, before accusing Zelensky of being disrespectful to President Trump by trying to voice his opposition to a peace deal in front of the American media. 

Trump criticized Zelensky for disrespecting the United States in the Oval Office, noting the Ukrainian president did not appear willing to make a peace deal. 

‘He can come back when he is ready for Peace,’ Trump wrote on social media. 

After the disastrous meeting with Trump, Zelensky made an emergency trip to London where he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European leaders who emphasized their support for Ukraine.

‘The U.K. is prepared to back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air, together with others,’ Starmer said. ‘Europe must do the heavy lifting, but to support peace in our continent and to succeed, this effort must have strong U.S. backing.’ 

But NATO members appeared to be split following the meeting, while Trump accused the UK-led ‘coalition of the willing’ of being weak for relying on an American backstop for peace.

French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a 30-day end to the fighting – but without any security guarantees for Kyiv.

Britain and other allies gave the plan the cold shoulder, as the UK supports the Ukrainian position which is that any end to the war must be secured by an agreement which Russia will be too scared to break.

European leaders were hoping a common policy on Ukraine would emerge following Sunday’s summit, with reports of the French diplomatic effort emerging yesterday. 

When the plan was put to leaders at Sunday’s meeting, none volunteered their support. But out of respect for Macron, nobody spoke against it either. 

Concerns remain among allies over the number of troops countries can provide as part of a post-settlement stabilisation force as Trump rejects using the US as a ‘backstop’ to prevent Russia from attacking again. 

Trump said following the summit: ‘It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelensky, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the US.’

He added in what appeared to be an attack on what he appeared to perceive as a weakness of European leaders: ‘Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they thinking?’