Ukraine Mineral Deal & Trump’s Gold Card Program | 2.27.25
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What deal did Trump make with Zelensky?
Trump hammers out a deal with Zelensky designed to pay back Americans for years of financial and military support.
The American taxpayer now is going to get their money back plus.
We break down the latest on the negotiations.
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What are the specifics of the Ukraine mineral deal?
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has been tracking this story and joins us now. Hey, Cabot. So Trump and Zelensky are finally ironing things out here. We'll get to the specifics of what's included. But first, how did we get to this point?
Yeah, it's been a turbulent three years, John. So last year, as Trump campaigned on a promise to cut back funding for Ukraine and end the war quickly, Vladimir Zelensky threw out the idea of a minerals deal where the U.S. would get a piece of Ukraine's natural resources and in exchange for continued military support and security guarantees after the war ended. Now, once Trump won, he took him up on the idea, saying America deserved to be paid back to the tune of $500 billion in the form of oil, gas, and rare earth mineral contracts. Zelensky initially balked at those figures, saying he would not, quote, sell his country. But the two kept negotiating, as Trump loves to do, and ultimately reached a deal.
Trump says that he will meet with Zelensky on Friday to sign the final terms. Here he is at the White House Wednesday.
It could be a trillion dollar deal. It could be whatever. But it's rare earths and other things. We want to get that money back. We're helping a country through a very, very big problem.
So the big question, what exactly is in this deal? Well, both sides have been tight-lipped on these specific numbers, but according to Ukraine's prime minister, it would establish a, quote, reconstruction investment fund that would be jointly managed by the two countries. Moving forward, 50% of revenues from new oil, gas, and mineral projects would go into that fund. The deal is also expected to grant American companies more direct access to the country's mineral reserves. which is crucial. Remember, Ukraine has some of the world's largest deposits of graphite, lithium, uranium, and titanium, all of which are critical for producing high-tech batteries, electronics, and weapons. Now, at the moment, China is responsible for around 90% of rare earth mineral production. So this deal could make the U.S. far less reliable on Beijing. Yeah, another key priority of the Trump administration. And what did the Ukrainians get from this? Trump says they've already gotten their part of the deal in the form of $100 billion-plus in military and financial aid. But it does appear the U.S.
will also agree to some form of security guarantee. According to the New York Times, the agreement says that in exchange for mineral rights, the U.S. would, quote, "...support Ukraine's effort to obtain security guarantees needed to establish lasting peace."
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What deal did Trump make with Zelensky?
0:03–0:17
2
How will the new U.S. 'Gold Card' immigration program work?
0:17–0:44
3
How are media outlets misleading the public on DOGE?
0:44–1:47
4
What are the specifics of the Ukraine mineral deal?
1:47–5:41
5
What is Trump's approach to ending the war with Russia?
5:41–8:24
6
What changes are proposed for the EB-5 program?
8:24–14:32
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