‘Badmouthing’ Trump will backfire on Zelensky – Vance
‘Badmouthing’ Trump will backfire on Zelensky – Vance
19 Feb, 2025
The Ukrainian leader has claimed that the US president is trafficking in Russian “disinformation”
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance at the Commander-in-Chief Ball, Washington, DC, January 20, 2025. © Getty Images / Anna Moneymaker
Attacking US President Donald Trump will not do Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky any favors in the White House, Vice President J.D. Vance has warned.
Vance made the comments after Zelensky suggested that Trump is living in a Russian “disinformation space.” In an interview published in the Daily Mail on Wednesday, Vance said this rhetoric is unacceptable.
“The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president’s mind by badmouthing him in public media, everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration,” Vance said.
“We obviously love the Ukrainian people,” but “we obviously think that this war needs to come to a rapid close,” he added. “That is the policy of the president of the United States. It is not based on Russian disinformation.”
Zelensky earlier expressed frustration that the US-Russia talks in Riyadh on Tuesday were arranged without his advice or approval. Speaking to reporters hours after the meeting, Trump claimed that Zelensky has a 4% domestic approval rating and suggested that Ukraine should hold new elections, given that Zelensky’s five-year presidential term expired in May 2024.
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Zelensky fired back by citing a recent poll suggesting that 57% of Ukrainians have confidence in him. “So if somebody wants to replace me now, it will not happen,” he said on Wednesday. Ukrainian officials previously stated that it is impossible to hold an election under martial law.
Vance said it is “a little rich for some of our European friends” to criticize Trump for highlighting the need to hold elections in Ukraine. “The idea that you cannot have elections in the midst of a war is, I think, kind of a preposterous idea,” he told the National Pulse on Wednesday.
‘You should’ve never started’ this war – Trump to Zelensky
Trump continued to blast Zelensky on Wednesday, saying he is doing a “terrible job” of running the country and accusing him of mismanaging US financial aid. “A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia.”
The meeting in Riyadh was a rebuke to the policies of Trump’s predecessor, former President Joe Biden, who waged a global campaign to “isolate” Russia on the world stage. Both the White House and the Kremlin hailed the talks as an important step in normalizing bilateral ties.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he no longer views Zelensky as a legitimate leader of Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters this week that future agreements should address “the possibility of challenging Zelensky’s legitimacy.”
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My Fellow Americans:
Don’t worry, every one knows that Zelensky has reached the end of his usefulness, and it’s time to “retire” him.
I’m sure a “Lone Gunman” (sic: CIA/Mossad/MI6) will take him out.
JD – US Marine: Zelensky Doesn’t Understand How Disposable He Actually Is,… Ba-Bye Zelensky.
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