Marco Rubio reveals that what Zelensky did before cameras started rolling is reason why he should apologize

Marco Rubio said that Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize to Donald Trump and cast doubts on whether the Ukrainian president really wants peace after their disaster meeting.

The tense war of words played out inside the Oval Office Friday and quickly went off the rails when Trump took offense of how Zelensky treated his vice president JD Vance in front of the cameras. 

In an effort to shift the blame away from Trump and Vance, whose aggression has provoked an international outcry in many of the US's closest allies, the Secretary of State hinted that Zelensky owes the president an apology and found his behavior leading up to the Oval Office blowout unacceptable. 

'You guys only saw the end, you don't see all the things that led up to this. The president's been very clear on this, he campaigned on this. He thinks this war should have never started and I agree that had he been president it never would have happened,' Rubio stated.

'Now here we are, he's trying to bring an end to this conflict, we've explained very clearly what our plan is here: we want to get the Russians to a negotiating table, we want to explore whether peace is possible,' he added.

Rubio's contention was that what happened in the ten days leading up to today's meeting led to a 'predictable outcome' and the meeting didn't even have to happen, claiming they were only here to sign the deal for minerals.

'Apologize for turning this thing into the fiasco that it became,' he said, in reference to Zelensky.

'Don't come here and create a scenario where you're going to start lecturing us about how diplomacy isn't going to work. Zelensky took it in that direction and it ended in a predictable outcome as a result.'