JD Vance told Volodymyr Zelensky to “behave” during Oval Office meeting

Vice President JD Vance told Fox News‘ Laura Ingraham that he greeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with a “little icebreaker” during his visit to the White House this week.

Vance said on The Ingraham Angle, “President Zelensky walked into the Oval Office, and I was chatting with him, and the president [Trump] and some of the senior Ukrainian delegation. I said, Mr. President, so as long as you behave, I won’t say anything. And he just chuckled a little bit, and it was a good little icebreaker.”

During a February Oval Office meeting, President Trump and Vance abruptly confronted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, culminating in a public shouting match and the cancellation of a signed minerals deal after Zelensky was called “disrespectful” and escorted out of the White House.

The meeting—which had initially been intended to formalize U.S. support for Ukraine—collapsed entirely, with lunch and a joint press conference scrapped amid the dramatic fallout.

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