JD Vance enters the care center defending Trump’s foreign policy in the oval office dust with Zelenskyy

Vice President JD Vance defended the president Donald Trump and the foreign policy agenda on Friday during a tense exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, inserting into a care center rarely seen by vice presidents.

Trump and Vance met at the Oval office on Friday with Zelenskyy in the midst of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, an exchange that finally led Trump to announce the end of peace negotiations and request that the Ukrainian leader leave the White House.

A source familiar with the meeting told Fox News Digital that there was no expectation that the meeting would lead to a combative exchange, and that Trump and Vance were taken by surprise by Zelenskyy’s behavior.

While the vice presidents traditionally remain in the wings while the president occupies the center of the stage, Friday’s meeting with Zelenskyy exposed the weight that Vance has been directing and advancing on the first agenda of the Trump administration in America, both at home and abroad.

Edward-Isaac Dovere, a senior CNN reporter, said the moment may have been equivalent to one of the most significant for the vice presidency, just behind the efforts of Vice President Dick Cheney that support the United States to invade Iraq.

“It is possible that JD Vance has had the most significant 90 seconds of his vice presidency, and the greatest impact that any vice president who has had that Cheney has had when changing the US foreign policy in the way in which the trajectory of the conversation in the Oval office today changed today,” said Dovere in a Friday position in X.

The Oval office meeting with Zelenskyy also arrives immediately after the appearance of February 14, Vance at the Munich Security Conference, an event that left a lasting impression in European nations and its relations with the United States.

Specifically, Vance said that Russia and China do not represent a threat as large for European nations as “threat from within”, referring to issues such as censorship and illegal immigration.

“For many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, the old entrenched interests that are hidden behind the ugly words of the Soviet era such as erroneous information and misinformation, who simply do not like the idea that someone with an alternative point of view could express a different opinion or, God does not want to express it, vote differently, or even worse, win a choice,” he won a choice, “said Vance.

The comments caused a violent reaction of European leaders, including German defense minister Boris Pistorius, who said he interpreted comments as a comparison with “conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regimes.”

The tensions intensified in the Oval office on Friday after Zelenskyy receded Vance’s statements that the way to follow was through diplomacy, stating that Russian President Vladimir Putin has broken other agreements in the past.

Where Zelenskyy is directed after the tense exchange of the White House with Trump, Vance

“What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you talking?” Zelenskyy said. “What do you mean?”

In response, Vance said: “I am talking about the type of diplomacy that will end with the destruction of his country.”

“Mr. President, with respect, I think it is disrespectful for you to come to the oval office to try to litigate this in front of the US media,” Vance told Zelenskyy. “At this time, you are circling and forcing the recruits to the front line because you have labor problems. You should thank the president for bringing him, to take him to this country.”

Zelenskyy then asked Vance if he had ever visited Ukraine, which led Vance to ask again if Zelenskyy did not agree that Ukraine has had challenges that recruit new troops.

“And do you think it is respectful to come to the oval office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to avoid the destruction of your country?” Vance said.

Zelenskyy replied that everyone faces challenges during war time, and that although an ocean protected the United States of Russia, warned that the United States would feel the threat eventually.

“Don’t tell us what we are going to feel,” Trump said. “We are trying to solve a problem. Don’t tell us what we are going to feel.

“You’re not in a position to dictate that, remember that.”

Vance and Zelenskyy also shot themselves when Vance asked if Zelenskyy had once said “thanks once that all this meeting”, which led Zelenskyy to affirm that Vance was speaking “out loud.”

Trump then put Zelenskyy and warned him that Ukraine was in “big problems.”

“Wait a minute,” Trump said. “No, no, you have spoken a lot. Your country is in big problems.”

Trump says that Zelenskyy can “return when she is ready for peace” after the burning exchange of the White House

Zelenskyy visited Washington in the midst of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and was expected to sign a mineral agreement that would allow the United States access to Ukraine minerals in exchange for support that the United States has provided the country since the invasion of Russia in 2022.

But after the tense exchange in the Oval office, Trump announced the arrest of peace negotiations and said Zelenskyy could return to the White House when he was “ready for peace.” In addition, Zelenskyy left the White House without signing the mineral agreement.

“I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace if the United States is involved, because he feels that our participation gives him a great advantage in the negotiations,” Trump wrote in a real social position on Friday. “I don’t want advantage, I want peace. He did not respect the United States of America in his appreciated Oval office. He can return when he is ready for peace.”

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Zelenskyy also continued with a publication on social networks about X that expresses gratitude to the United States for his support.

“Thank you America, thanks for your support, thanks for this visit,” said Zelenskyy. “Thank you @potus, the American Congress and people. Ukraine needs fair and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.”

The exchange caused mixed reactions of Capitol Hill. Republican senator Lindsay Graham from South Carolina said that Zelenskyy should resign, while the leader of the Democratic Senate minority Chuck Schumer in New York said “Trump and Vance are doing the dirty work of Putin.”

Associated Press and Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.