{"id":21139,"date":"2025-10-29T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21139\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:56:08","slug":"jd-vance-tells-pod-force-one-hes-turned-over-a-new-leaf-with-ukraines-zelensky-post-oval-office-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21139\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance tells ‘Pod Force One’ he’s ‘turned over a new leaf’ with Ukraine’s Zelensky post-Oval Office argument"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice President JD Vance said on the latest episode of \u201cPod Force One\u201d Wednesday that the relationship between the US and Ukraine \u201cis much more productive\u201d since his infamous Oval Office blowup<\/a> directed at Kyiv\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>, this past February.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was six [eight] months ago,\u201d Vance told Post columnist Miranda Devine. \u201cWe have turned over a new leaf.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to have productive relationships with both the Ukrainians and the Russians, because we want to end this conflict, and I think the president has a very good working relationship \u2014 and so do I \u2014 with all the parties involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance spoke with The Post\u2019s Miranda Devine for the newest episode of \u201cPod Force One.\u201d Tamara Beckwith<\/p>\n

Vance did admit that the Feb. 28 confrontation with Zelensky was \u201cprobably the most famous thing I\u2019ve ever done, or maybe ever will do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading up to the fiery exchange, Zelensky had been publicly skeptical of Vance, calling the Republican \u201ctoo radical\u201d during the 2024 election campaign.<\/a> <\/p>\n

During his time in the Senate, Vance had been a staunch opponent of US aid to the war-torn country.<\/p>\n

Zelensky had been invited to the White House to discuss a minerals deal with Trump. Initially, the meeting was warm, but tensions exploded after Vance told a reporter that Ukraine and Russia need to engage in diplomacy.<\/p>\n

In front of TV cameras, the Ukrainian leader openly questioned Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin\u2019s receptiveness to diplomacy.<\/p>\n

From there, the meeting degenerated into a full-blown shouting match in front of the world\u2019s media. At one point, Vance berated Zelensky for not saying \u201cthank you\u201d to the US for past assistance.<\/p>\n

Vance admitted that the February incident with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was \u201cprobably the most famous thing I\u2019ve ever done, or maybe ever will do.\u201d AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Trump backed up Vance and scolded Zelensky as well, insisting that Kyiv didn\u2019t \u201chave the cards\u201d and was gambling with World War III.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you go back to that moment, I was getting frustrated because I perceived some rudeness,\u201d Vance reflected.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the takeaway from that for me, but also I think for any foreign leader who comes to the Oval Office, in particular \u2026 you try to basically respect the rules of the house that you\u2019re in,\u201d the veep added. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to disagree \u2026 you can do it in a particularly productive way, or you can do it in an unproductive way.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent months, Trump has constantly recalibrated his approach to ending the war. Last month, Trump chided Russia as a \u201cpaper tiger\u201d and mused that Ukraine could regain its captured territory.<\/p>\n

Then, following a call with Putin Oct. 16, the US president took a more pessimistic view of Ukraine\u2019s chances during a meeting with Zelensky the following day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vance added he \u201cperceived some rudeness\u201d from Zelensky during the Oval Office blow up. Tamara Beckwith<\/p>\n

Zelensky had pressed Trump to green-light the sale of long-range Tomahawk missiles that could strike deep inside Russia. So far, Trump has held off from giving Kyiv that firepower.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually think airing everything out, doing it in public, actually articulating where there were disagreements and where there were common interests, actually was pretty productive,\u201d Vance reflected eight months on from the dispute.<\/p>\n

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However, the vice president declined to guess what might come next in Europe\u2019s deadliest conflict since the Second World War.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you asked me six months or so ago, I would have said, \u2018They\u2019re never going to stop fighting. This is going to be like Russia\u2019s Vietnam,\u201d Vance said. \u201c\u201915 years later, they\u2019re still going to be fighting.\u2019 If you asked me a month ago, I would have said we\u2019re making incredible progress [toward peace].\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to venture a prediction, but I do think that we have reached the point of diminishing returns for both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Vice President JD Vance said on the latest episode of \u201cPod Force One\u201d Wednesday that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,5886,425,11749,9,11,10,14120,14121,87,9045,9046,9047,58,14122,14123],"class_list":{"0":"post-21139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-foreign-policy","11":"tag-jd-vance","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-oval-office","16":"tag-pod-force-one","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-ukraine-war","21":"tag-us-news","22":"tag-vice-presidents","23":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}