JD VANCE cousin criticizes him for Zelenski’s “belittling”

US Vice President Cousin JD Vance criticizes him and President Donald Trump for the “belittance” of Volodimir Zelenski during the breakthrough of the three men’s office in February.

“There is a certain level of decor that I expect from political leaders, especially in front of the cameras,” Nate Vance told the BBC PM program on Monday.

The following is comments in an interview in which he said Trump and Vance behave as “useful idiots” to President Vladimir Putin in his work with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Last month, US officials had direct conversations with Moscow to end the three -year war. Currently, US and Ukrainian officials are in Saudi Arabia to discuss a peace deal.

Nate Vance, who spent three years voluntarily with the Ukrainian military after the invasion of Russia in 2022, said he was “not satisfied” by the way the White House meeting had coped from his cousin and Trump.

“I am somehow attached to the Ukrainian question, but looking at it, if it was some other completely neutral question and saw White House officials and hack journalists who politically downplayed a foreign leader, I would be like” what the hell is going on? “He told the BBC.

Thehe TV meeting at the oval office Among the leaders, he quickly heated, with Trump threatening to withdraw support from Ukraine if he did not conclude a deal and blame the Ukrainian president of Gambling with the Third World War.

Vance called Zelenski “disrespectful” for a “dispute” dispute in front of the media And he accused him of not expressing gratitude for the support of America during the war.

Nate Vance said he did not agree that Zelenski failed to show appreciation. “Zelenski makes a daily or night address and thanks everyone who supports Ukraine daily,” he said.

He said that maybe the Ukrainian leader did not show “enough respect for Donald Trump”, but that it would be “strange for my cousin and Donald Trump to ask for respect as they have been actively working against his initiatives in the last three years.”

In the end, Zelenski was asked to leave the White House and a planned press conference was canceled.

After the meeting the Trump Administration stopped military assistancesatellite images and sharing intelligence to Kyiv.

A US reporter during the White House meeting Accused of Zelenski in disrespect for the occasion by not wearing a suitS Since the beginning of the war, Zelenski has escaped military -style dress suits in what he believes is solidarity with soldiers.

“Everyone knows that that’s why he does this and it’s some kind of symbolic thing,” Nate Vance said. “Who cares? This is a stupid hill to die. And when we talk about who, why, why Elon Musk in the oval office wears a baseball cap and a T -shirt all the time?”

In an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro earlier on Monday, Nate Vance said his cousin was “a good man, intelligent”, but that the meeting with Zelenski is “ambushes of absolutely bad faith”.

Later, he told the Prime Minister’s program that he was a “republican all his life, so this is a strange position for me to accept, but I’m quite passionate about it and this is a problem in which I think we are doing the wrong.”

He said it was unlikely that his cousin would want to talk to him after his comments.

Asked about the opinion of other Americans about the meeting, he said that 20% would be “discouraged” and that “all this alienation isolates us the last time we decided to take an isolationist, in which we ended with the First and Second World War.”

Subsequently, Zelenski said the angry exchange was “regretful” and it was “time to do things right”.

The United States is trying to mediate with both Russia and Ukraine, hoping to end the war.

Last week Trump said he was “To do very well with Russia” and that it was “more difficult, honestly, to deal with Ukraine”S