‘Condescending P***k’: JD Vance’s Zelenskyy-Oval Office Anecdote Backfires Online

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="68a6da6de4b0d184fdf4d655">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"a27e9631-76bf-4921-89d7-ab169c8ed541"}).render("68a6da6de4b0d184fdf4d655");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>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.</p><p>In a Wednesday interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Vance recalled telling Zelenskyy <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-ukraine-war-what-to-know_n_68a3f5fae4b0c2c76f84bf0c?pk9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">just before his meeting</a> with President Donald Trump: “Mr. President, so long as you behave, I won’t say anything.”</p><p>Zelenskyy, Vance said, “just chuckled a little bit.”</p></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-dnt="true" align="center"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Vance: Zelenskyy walked into the oval office. I was chatting with him… I said Mr. President, so long as you behave, I won&#39;t say anything. It was a good little icebreaker <a href="https://t.co/4uuylpjc8m&quot