PRESIDENT TRUMP is angry with the Ukrainian president.

A meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Sunday descended into angry disagreement and an early end.

According to the Associated Press, the meeting was billed as the completion of an agreement for peace between Ukraine and Russia that was rejected by the Ukrainian president for lacking in “security guarantees” for his nation.

Vance called it “disrespectful” for Zelensky to try to “litigate” the agreement in the Oval Office in front of television cameras. Zelensky has repeatedly said that any agreement to end the war would need to have some provisions to keep Russia from reopening its attacks.

The press conference planned for after the meeting was cancelled. Trump later said that Ukraine had to agree to an immediate cease-fire or risk losing American support.

The leaders of most Western European nations voice their support for Ukraine, some of them vowing to organize Europe to pay for the kind of aid that the U.S. has been supplying for the past three years.

Musk will try again on self-reports

Billionaire Elon Musk is taking another shot at demanding that federal government employees submit reports on what they accomplished in the week.

ELON MUSK (Flickr/Steve Jurevtson).

The New York Times is reporting that the e-mails this time will not come from the Office of Personnel Management but directly from the agencies themselves.

The original e-mail threatened termination for those which did not comply, but the consequences of not complying are unclear, although Musk wrote in the note that a failure to respond would be “taken as a resignation.”

A federal judge, in the meantime, ruled that the OPM had no authority to fire anyone, except its own employees. The new e-mail could be going out as early as Saturday.

Musk has suggested that the demand was simply a way to figure out which government employees were actually dead and still collecting a paycheck through an accounting error.

Pope’s condition is complicated

POPE FRANCIS (WIkipedia).

Pope Francis, 88, has been placed on a “breathing machine” in response to what The Vatican called a “sudden worsening of his respiratory condition.”

United Press International reports that doctors will need “about 24 to 48 hours” to accurately assess the Pontiff’s condition. The prognosis is now considered “guarded.”

He is not “out of danger” but is described as “alert and aware at all times. While hospitalized with double pneumonia he suffered “some kidney failure” and is listed in critical condition.

Weather: Temp elevator descending

The cooling trend that began on Friday in our West Orange County cities continues and picks up speed this weekend. The forecast calls for a daytime high of 67 on Saturday with an overnight low of 53 under partly cloudy skies. Sunday will cool to 63 (54) with cloudy skies. Monday will be even chillier at 61 (49) with a 40 percent chance of rain. A slight reversal is predicted for Tuesday with a high of 64 with a low of 40 and with a 37 percent chance of rain.

Great Thoughts:

“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”
– Voltaire

“ Happily, the Government of the United States, which gives bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving to on all occasions their effectual support.”
– George Washington, president of the United States