US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet in the Oval Office at the White House on February 28, 2025.
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Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN on Thursday that there’s “not something personal” driving his latest estrangement from President Donald Trump.

Unfortunately for Ukraine’s wartime president, nothing could be further from the truth.

Everything about Trump’s presidency is personal.

Trump has substituted his own values — the flexing of dominance, the courting of strongmen and the pursuit of cash-spinning deals — for those that guided previous modern presidents as they secured democracy and faced down tyrants.