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'Biden lost his temper' with Zelenskyy in June 2022 phone call, a report shows
Months after war broke out between Russia and Ukraine, then-President Joe Biden had a fiery private phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which included Biden allegedly losing "his temper" and calling on Ukraine to "show a little more gratitude" towards the U.S. for its support, a resurfaced 2022 NBC News report shows.
“Biden had barely finished telling Zelenskyy that he had just greenlighted another $1 billion in U.S. military assistance for Ukraine when Zelenskyy started listing all the additional help he needed and wasn’t getting," according to an NBC report published in November 2022, recounting a prior June 2022 call that Biden and Zelenskyy shared.
"Biden lost his temper, the people familiar with the call said. The American people were being quite generous, and his administration and the U.S. military were working hard to help Ukraine, he said, raising his voice, and Zelenskyy could show a little more gratitude," the report continued.
The reported tense exchange on the phone came just months after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. The pair's relationship "only improved" following the phone call, Biden administration officials told NBC at the time.
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Trump isn't the first US commander in chief to lose patience with Zelenskyy: resurfaced 2022 report
Then-President Biden had a fiery phone call with Ukraine President Zelenskyy in June 2022, years before a similar fiery exchange with President Trump in the Oval Office.
