Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe: the besieged president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who’d spent most of the previous two years being hailed by Western leaders as a hero.

"Zelensky refused to abandon Kyiv, even after other leaders pleaded with him to leave.Trump hid in a bunker when protesters were outside the White House, then claimed he was inspecting the basement 🙄."

President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an ungrateful ally risking global war in its ongoing defense against Russian invaders.