It looks like President Zelenskyy’s message may have worked because it’s being reported now that both he and President Trump will sign the mineral rights deal and Trump wants to announce it tonight in his address.

Here’s more from Reuters:

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and Ukraine plan to sign the much-debated minerals deal following a disastrous Oval Office meeting Friday in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was dismissed from the building, four people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, three of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ukraine’s presidential administration in Kyiv and the Ukrainian embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

If he wants to announce it tonight, I assume this means they want to sign it today. President Trump doesn’t have anything on his schedule until his address tonight, so I guess they’ve got time to work this out.

But I’m happy Trump accepted this message and is moving forward with this.