The word for example was thrown around in the reporting and podcasts in the news in order to describe the dizzying first weeks of Donald Trump’s second, not consecutive term as US President-to describe his consent of the billionaire consultant Elon Musks apparently indiscriminately random public service.
Examples also seem to describe the previous vice presidency of JD Vances.
Vice President traditionally in the shadow of men who have appointed them or have received specific marching commands, as Vance predecessor Kamala Harris, commissioned the basic causes of migration to the US To confirm controversial candidates Pete Hegseth as Minister of Defense.
But after only six weeks in action, Vance was omnipresent at events and online, where he often reacts to social media contributions. The Vice President has managed to judge politicians from Great Britain, France, Germany and rank Romaniaas well as Officials of the Catholic Church in the USA.
An Australian prime minister has referred to Vance as a “button”, while Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day Green Day Recently mocked Vance In a revised poetry in Jesus in the suburb of the American idiot Album.
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Great Britain, France take the roof
Vance has also inspired a protest, rarely for a vice president. This happened in Vermont on Saturday when demonstrators put the main street in Waitsfield, where the Vance family went on vacation.
“Ski Russia because JD Vance has no friends in Vermont, but he has many of them in Russia, so he should go there for vacation,” Demonstrator Tekla van Hoven told The Associated Press.
Trump and Vance were accused of in a few quarters of Make statements that Russian officials would have been happyAfter confronting Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy on Friday at the end of a 40-minute meeting. The Sitdown should be a prelude to the signing of an economic agreement between the two countries, with the hope that the increasing cooperation in mineral extraction in Ukraine could contribute to the way for a ceasefire between the Eastern European country and Russia.
Vance asked whether Zelenskyy was grateful for the US military aid, which Ukraine undoubtedly approved an invasion of Ukraine three years after President Vladimir Putin had allowed at least the military resources of Russia. In the course of the war and on Fridays on Friday, the Ukraine leader thanked the USA more than once.
When Zelenskyy Vance asked whether he had come to Ukraine since the war and knows the answer well, the Vice President reduced the visits of other Kyiv world leaders as “propaganda tours”. These visits have seen the world’s liberal and conservative leaders who respect a monument to the war in Ukraine capital.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s key message to the USA was as good as an oval office meeting with President Donald Trump confused into a publicly screaming match. Ellen Mauro from CBC cuts through the chaos of this day to reveal what Ukraine was really afterwards and how a story of the diplomatic disappointment desperately left the country according to US security guarantees.
The Implosion of the Oval Office also remembered those who remembered Comments Vance in a podcast in 2022, which was moderated by Steve Bannon, the former advisor to the White House in Trump’s first term.
“I have to be honest with you, I don’t care what happens to Ukraine in one way or another,” he said to Bannon.
Vance was less warrant in an interview that was broadcast on Monday in the comments of Friendly Fox News, moderator Sean Hannity, but he added the fire with an excluded comment that apparently reduced European peace security efforts.
Vance said that the United States is an economic share in the future of Ukraine “a much better security guarantee than 20,000 soldiers from a random country that has not waged war in 30 or 40 years”.
Vance contested that his comments in Great Britain or France were publicly elected to secure European peace in a European peace insurance in Ukraine after the war.
Officials from both countries were offended.
“The French and British soldiers who died in the fight against terrorism who fought and sometimes died together with American soldiers earn it better than the contempt of the American Vice President,” said French President Emmanuel Macron Renaissance party at X.
James Cartlidge, the spokesman for the British opposition Conservative Party in defense, said that Vances’s comments were “deeply disrespectful”, while Johnny Mercer, a British veteran and former junior defense minister, called Vance as “clown”.
VP as an attack dog
The US Vice President previously held an attack dog role. Spiro Agnew focused on the critics of President Richard Nixon and described the media in a speech as the “effete core of the unpredictable snobs” and the congress opponents of the Nixon administrative plans as “Nabobs of Negativism”.
But most of the controversial statements from Vance have so far involved foreign policy because he interviewed or even taught leaders on their faces.
At the Munich Security Conference, the US Vice President JD Vance insulted the European allies because he supposedly supposedly suppressed freedom of speech, a threat that he described greater than Russia or China. Vance also accused the host country Germany to silence right political voices.
Great Britain was already at the end of a Vance-Jab About the status of freedom of speech in Great Britain.
In Germany, Vance dealt with the coalition government last month and instead met with the leader of the right -wing extremist AfD.
Despite the invasion of Ukraine in Russia and credible reports that Putin critics were mutilated or killed in European cities, Vance said that Russia was not the biggest problem in the continent. Instead, he spoke of a “threat within” that settled critics of guidelines and laws in relation to language, freedom of assembly and immigration.
Striking contrast to Trumps 1. VP
Vance’s comments can be compared to those of Mike Pence who appeared on the same summit as Trump’s Vice President eight years earlier.
Pence informed the meetings that the European countries had to spend more for their own defense, he also assured them that the USA “would be with Europe today and every day” and that the Trump government “would continue to be accountable for Russia, even if we are looking for new things together”.
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Of course, Pence ended his Vice Presidency, which Trump opposed to make his fraudulent demands on an unjust loss of election in the 2020 presidential election. A mob from Trump supporters rose the Capitol on January 6, 2021. with a little singing“Hang Mike Pence.”
When Vance was selected by Trump to his running comrades last year, Tucker Carlson told Axios that one of the reasons was that “he didn’t secretly hate how everyone else did” and referred to other vice presidential candidates.
This steadfast support was only a few years old at that time. In 2016, Vance wrote in a USA Today that Trump’s politics “as they are, from immoral to absurd”, and he also criticized the real estate mogul candidate In interviews with CBC News.
Since then, Vance has said that Trump opened his eyes for corruption in Washington through his campaigns and his first term.
Donald Trump named JD Vance as his vice president for running comrades. The Junior Senator from Ohio is a convinced supporter, but it wasn’t always like that. The national breaks down, as he became a former US president for the job from ‘Never Trump’.
Ex-White House consultant Bruce Reed, who speaks to journalist Kate Andersen Boower for her book from 2018 First in line: president, vice president and the pursuit of powerHistory has shown that relationships between President and Vice President can develop or become angry over time.
“The actual power of the Vice President is based on his relationship with the president,” said Reed, the former chief of staff of the then Vice President Joe Biden. “In the end, the leash is only as long as the president can do.”
At the moment Vance seems to have a very long line, and his comments could point out that the dismay of Western allies does not disappear in any form if his author leaves the political arena.
