Live updates: Trump rails against Zelensky over Crimea, calls for ‘fair’ China trade deal

President Trump slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday over his opposition to a reported component of a peace deal with Russia. 

Under the deal, according to an Axios report, Ukraine would be required to recognize Crimea as Russian, which Zelensky called unconstitutional.

Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday and railed against the Ukrainian leader, calling his view “very harmful.” 

“The statement made by Zelenskyy today will do nothing but prolong the ‘killing field,’ and nobody wants that! We are very close to a Deal, but the man with ‘no cards to play’ should now, finally, GET IT DONE,” Trump wrote. 

This post comes after Vice President Vance on Wednesday also issued an ultimatum of sorts about the war, now in its fourth year.

"We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process,” Vance told reporters during a trip to India.

Talks about the war in London were also downgraded after it was announced senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, would not attend. 

Meanwhile, the stock market rallied Wednesday morning after Trump teased a cut to the 145 percent tariffs on China. 

“145 percent is very high. It won’t be that high, it’s not going to be that high … it won’t be anywhere near that high,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday evening. “It will come down substantially, but it won’t be zero.”

Trump reiterated this view Wednesday, calling for a fair trade deal.

"It's going to be fair," he told reporters on the White House lawn.

On Tuesday, the president also eased investor anxieties by saying he had no plans to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom he has long criticized for not cutting interest rates. 

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