Keeping Up With Trump: Here’s Everything The President Did In Week Six

President Donald Trump marked six weeks in office on Friday as his administration continued to aggressively implement his agenda at home and seek peace abroad.

This week, Trump turned his attention to the war in Ukraine, capping the week with an explosive on-camera shouting match in the Oval Office with the Ukrainian president.

Here are this week’s highlights.

Foreign Leaders

On Friday, Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House. The visit was friendly until an Oval Office meeting devolved into an heated argument between Trump, Zelensky, and Vice President JD Vance in front of media cameras.

The back and forth began when Zelensky interrupted questions from the press to challenge Vance on diplomacy with Russia.

“During the war, everybody has problems, even you, but you have nice ocean and don’t feel now, but you will feel it in the future. God bless, you will not have war,” Zelensky told Vance.

“Don’t tell us what we’re going to feel. We’re trying to solve a problem,” Trump interrupted, adding, “you don’t have the cards right now” and accusing Zelensky of “gambling with the lives of millions of people.”

The exchange went on for several minutes with Trump reminding Zelensky that the United States has sent Ukraine vital and expensive military equipment.

“Have you said thank you once?” Vance asked.

“I’ve empowered you to be a tough guy,” Trump told Zelensky. “You’re either going to make a deal, or we’re out.”

Full exchange between Trump, Vance, Zelensky pic.twitter.com/kT3SsqUd0M

— Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) February 28, 2025

Trump to Zelensky: "You're either gonna make a deal, or we're out." pic.twitter.com/XIc7QZL26L

— Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) February 28, 2025

Afterward, a joint press conference was canceled, and Trump asked Zelensky to leave the White House. The two presidents had also planned to sign a deal where Ukraine would trade rare minerals for defense help from the United States, but that signing was also canceled, leaving the deal in peril.

“I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations,” Trump wrote on Truth Social afterward. “I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”

Trump also hosted French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House on Monday. They displayed their friendly relationship with plenty of handshakes, but clashed on the Ukraine war.

Macron said “peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,” while Trump emphasized how much money the United States has spent on aid to Ukraine and said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to make a deal.

Trump hosted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday, where Starmer urged Trump to continue supporting Ukraine, as well as not to put tariffs on the United Kingdom.

Trade and American Investment

Trump said China will be hit with an additional 10% tariff next week on top of the first 10% tariff Trump already imposed this month. The president cited China’s major role in fentanyl flowing into the United States.

Trump also said tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will go into effect on March 4 “as scheduled,” saying those countries have not done enough to stop the flow of drugs into the United States either.

On Monday, Apple announced the tech giant will invest $500 billion in the Unites States over the next four years. Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Trump last week. The move will create 20,000 jobs in the United States and comes amid Trump’s tariffs aimed at encouraging United States manufacturing.

Trump also signed an executive order aimed at addressing national security threats from copper imports, saying copper products are “vital” for defense products and other technology. The order directs the Commerce Secretary to look into tariffs on copper imports to encourage domestic production. The order also references China, the global leader in copper smelting and refining, saying China’s dominance “poses a direct threat to United States national security and economic stability.”

Immigration

Illegal crossings at the southern border are down to about 285 a day, 94% lower than in February a year ago, and migrants are reportedly giving up and returning home due, in part, to the end of the Biden administration’s CBP One app.

Arrests inside the country are up 137% compared to a year ago. The illegal migrant criminals the administration has arrested include a Salvadoran migrant convicted of sodomy with a victim under 13, a Sudanese migrant convicted of rape of a victim under 13, and a Mexican migrant who had an order of removal from 2006 and was convicted of drunk driving resulting in a death.

On Thursday, the White House said 29 Mexican cartel members were extradited to the United States for prosecution, including a cartel boss who tortured and murdered a DEA agent in the 1980s.

Health Care

Trump signed an executive order aimed at making sure patients have clear and accurate information about the price of their health care. Several departments, including Health and Human Services, are directed to enforce new price transparency regulations to make sure hospitals and insurance companies disclose their actual prices, not estimates, and make prices comparable across the board, including prescription drug prices.

DOGE

Trump signed a new executive order giving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) more power to slash government spending.

The order tells federal agency heads to work with DOGE team leads to justify government spending over the next month, starting with investigating grants and contracts to educational institutions and foreign entities for waste, fraud, and abuse. Agency heads also have to explain taxpayer-funded conference travel and identify federal properties that are no longer needed. The order also freezes all agency credit cards except those for disaster relief or other critical services.

Meanwhile, one million federal workers responded to Elon Musk’s DOGE email asking them to describe five things they got done the week before.

The administration continues to slash the federal workforce, with thousands of employees already fired and more taking buyout offers.

Epstein Files

Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to release the FBI’s files on millionaire sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, but she was stymied by the FBI allegedly withholding thousands of Epstein documents.

On Wednesday, Bondi said on Fox News that she hoped to release some Epstein files the next day. On Thursday, Bondi gave a group of right-wing influencers at the White House binders labeled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” However, the binders contained little new information, certainly not Epstein’s sex trafficking client list.

Bondi then accused the FBI of lying to her about turning over all the Epstein documents after someone at the FBI’s New York office told her there were thousands more documents.

Also this week, Bondi announced the Justice Department has dropped several Biden-era DEI lawsuits against police and fire departments over their supposedly racist hiring practices such as written exams and credit checks.

Other Moves

Trump held his first official Cabinet meeting, which Elon Musk attended.

Trump nixed the security clearances of a law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, that provided free legal services to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office in the cases against Trump before the election.

“I was the target of corrupt politicians for four years, and then four years after that. So don’t talk to me about targeting,” Trump told a reporter at the signing.

On Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins laid out her plan to lower egg prices, an economic sticking point for years. The strategy will involve spending up to $1 billion to curb avian flu, protecting egg farmers from regulations like California’s minimum space requirements for hens, and considering temporary egg imports.

Vance, a Catholic, addressed the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday. The vice president said ahead of his remarks that during the election cycle, he was “moved to witness the joyful devotion” of Catholics “praying for the future and success of our country,” and “thanks to their faithful prayers, hope has returned to America again.”

Meanwhile, a new poll conducted last week shows Americans are more optimistic about the economy, more say their personal financial situation is improving, and a majority, 52% approve of the job Trump is doing as president.