There could be many reasons Friday's meeting in the Oval Office between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky disintegrated into the petulant Ukraine leader being tossed out of the White House on his ear. 

It could be that he came into the meeting sulking about not being invited to the initial peace talks that took place last week between U.S. and Russian officials. It could be because Trump had hinted that the Ukrainian people should hold new elections. And it could be that Zelensky didn't like Trump's comments about his attire, which, admittedly, was ultra casual and in stark contrast to the previous, more serious-looking arrivals of U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House. 

Or perhaps Zelensky arrived in Washington, D.C., perturbed that the gravy train was ending for his country. Something that is just now coming to light is the fact that the U.S. State Department earlier this week halted a USAID program that funneled dollars into Ukraine to help rebuild the country's power grid after years of it being pounded by Russia.

NBC News reported Friday afternoon, in the wake of the Oval Office blowup, that the U.S. just a few days ago halted the Ukraine Energy Security Project.

The State Department this week terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine's energy grid from attacks by the Russian military, according to two USAID officials working on the agency’s Ukraine mission.

A USAID official explained why the program had to end.

“It significantly undercuts this administration’s abilities to negotiate on the ceasefire, and it’d signal to Russia that we don’t care about Ukraine or our past investments,” one USAID official involved in the Ukraine mission told NBC News. 

The official continued: “Russia is fighting a two-pronged war in Ukraine: A military one but also an economic one. They’re trying to crush the economy, but USAID has played a central role in helping it be resilient, [including] shoring up the energy grid…We’ve provided vast amount of support to the Ukrainian government to avoid a macro economic crisis.”

USAID currently has 64 government employees on the ground in Ukraine, but most are expected to return stateside in the wake of the cuts by the Trump administration. 

Zelensky is no doubt smarting over taking a series of Ls in recent weeks, but it's hard to grasp what motivated him to take the occasion of an Oval Office meeting with a man Vice President JD Vance has described as wanting to be the "President of peace," to disrespect his hosts. This ain't the Biden administration anymore.

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My personal opinion is that President Trump has been privy to photos showing the human cost of the war that has been waging for three years now and is utterly disgusted with all parties involved. And he certainly wasn't going to take any guff from Zelensky after Ukraine has benefitted greatly from the generosity of the American people.

RedState's Bonchie had some additional thoughts on the matter.

Here's the deal. Fairness or being "right" doesn't factor into a situation like this. Zelensky is in a desperate spot, and Trump had largely acquiesced to a very Ukraine-friendly deal over the last few days (including lowering the repayment amount to just $90 billion). The negotiations were over. All the Ukrainian president had to do was show up, shake hands, smile for the cameras, and sign the deal. His attempt to lecture Trump and Vance for the cameras was an ego move that he didn't have the leverage to pull off. 

Also, never, ever forget the lesson we learned in the movie "Rudy": 

"No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around." Volodymyr Zelensky just learned that the hard way.