President Donald Trump provided a moment of levity as lunch was served during a meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The president met with the Ukrainian leader at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, and video caught the moment he joked with a reporter about whether offering him lunch would be considered a “bribe.”
The meeting at Trump’s Florida estate included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, among others, gathered to discuss an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine. As the officials got ready to dine on some lunch, Trump addressed the gathered members of the press.
“Are you okay? Is everyone fine?” he asked, telling reporters, “I think you could sit outside and have some food.”
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“Would you like food? Or do you consider that a BRIBE? And therefore you can’t write honestly? Or write a bad story?” 😂
“You can speak! Yes? OK, Margo, tell… pic.twitter.com/L3D655BTI6
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“Would you like to have food, or would you consider that a bribe?” Trump asked one off-camera reporter.
“And therefore you could not write honestly, or therefore you have to write a bad story,” he quipped, causing a few visible chuckles around the table.
“Would you like something to eat at this time? Yes or no? You can speak,” Trump inquired.
“Yes, sir,” the reporter responded.
The president then directed Communications Advisor Margo Martin to “take him outside and tell the chef to serve him a little lunch.”
Off camera, staff could be heard ushering the reporters out, repeatedly saying, “Thank you, press.”
“That should guarantee good stories, but it won’t,” Trump said to those gathered at the table. “They’ll only get worse. They’ll go out of their way to make them worse.”
Earlier, as Trump welcomed Zelenskyy to Mar-a-Lago, he called out a reporter for asking a “dumb question.”
Moments after greeting Ukraine’s president on Sunday, a reporter was heard asking Trump if he was “prepared to sign security documents today.”
When asked about a security agreement present, Trump says – what a dumb question pic.twitter.com/7ckTve6xk3
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“Well, it depends on what the security agreements — what a dumb question,” Trump responded.
“Nobody even knows what the security agreement is going to say,” he pointed out. “But there will be a security agreement, it’ll be a strong agreement, and the European nations are very much involved in that. They’ll be involved in protection, etc.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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