Another senior Republican who had previously been supportive of Zelenskyy, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, seemed to make a dramatic shift. After a deal to give the U.S. access to Ukraine's mineral riches fell apart, Graham suggested that the Ukrainian president should resign.

Some of President Trump's fervent allies stood behind his actions in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. But Ukraine supporters within the Republican Party have expressed concerns about how the meeting played out and fear it could derail further negotiations with the country.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) declined to designate Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” during a Sunday interview with NBC News and was confronted with comments from his Republican Senate colleagues blasting the Russian president.

O’Brien’s joke comes just days after Trump and Vice President JD Vance detonated a metaphorical bomb during their meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, disgracefully demanding that the wartime president thank them for aid they didn’t even approve, which they are anxious to see returns on.

As Ukraine balks at Trump’s efforts to seize its mineral reserves, the Russian president just suggested that the U.S. could access minerals … in Russian-held Ukraine.