‘I Think That This Was Staged’: Gretchen Carlson Claims Trump And Vance ‘Planned’ Their Spat With Zelensky

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson suggested that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance “staged” their already infamous Oval Office fight with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.

On Friday, Zelensky got in a shouting match with Vance and Trump inside the Oval Office after the pair accused the Ukrainian leader of not being grateful for U.S. support to his country amid the Russian invasion.

During a CNN morning panel, network anchor Abby Phillip asked Carlson for her thoughts on the blow-up, adding that any erosion of Ukraine-U.S. relations is a matter of “life and death.”

PHILLIP: It’s all about kind of like, are you are you grateful enough? Are you saying thank you enough that you loved me enough as opposed to the life? It’s life and death that we’re talking about.

CARSLON: But I felt like it was completely planned, Abby. I mean, even Trump said this was great TV, and it’s sort of like he let the cat out of the bag. Like, I think that this was staged, planned because Trump and Vance know they’re playing to the American public more than anything else. And if you go on any social media, you’re seeing people say, yay, we got America back again, make America great again. And I was asking, how does this make America great again? I mean, this is different than being tough on crime or tough at the border. This is like, okay, I guess we’re not going to give $350 million to Ukraine anymore. But what about US security?

Watch the clip above via CNN.