Vice President JD Vance was branded a “condescending prick” and more this week over the way he claimed to have welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into the Oval Office on Monday.
Zelenskyy, Vance said, “just chuckled a little bit.”
Vance described the remark to Ingraham as a “good little icebreaker.”
The vice president, though, had previously clashed with Zelenskyy during a February Oval Office meeting when he accused the Ukrainian leader of not showing enough gratitude for U.S. aid to combat Russia’s ongoing invasion.
So, critics on social media weren’t impressed with Vance’s take:
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