Bangladesh, June 5 -- In a development that marks a stark departure from traditional US foreign policy toward Eastern Europe, President Donald Trump is reportedly growing increasingly frustrated with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, seeing him as a destabilizing figure who is nudging the world dangerously close to nuclear catastrophe. According to a June 4 report by The New York Times, Trump has come to regard Zelensky as a “bad guy” whose defiance toward Russia is intensifying global tensions rather than resolving them.

Citing unnamed aides within the Trump administration, the NYT reports that Trump is “exasperated” by both Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, the animosity he harbors to...