Vice President JD Vance praised President Donald Trump’s decision to call Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting with European leaders this week, applauding Trump for his “no-holds barred, no B.S. diplomacy.”
Asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham about Trump’s decision to interrupt a meeting with European leaders to call Putin, Vance said:
It was like one in the morning Moscow time and they had no anticipation. So we’re actually in the East Wing of the White House and the president says, “You know, we’ve had a pretty good meeting, I’m gonna go call Vladimir Putin and see what he says about it,” and everybody’s like, “Oh, you’re gonna call him next week?” and he’s like, “No, what time is it in Moscow? Let’s call him right now.”And I think, one of the things I realized about President Trump’s leadership is he cuts through the B.S. of some of these diplomatic protocols and just says, “I’m gonna get things done. If I want to talk to somebody, I’m gonna talk to somebody.” You had a lot of the Europeans who were saying, “No, no, no, there needs to be proper, you know, vetting and the teams have to prepare the phone call and blah blah blah blah blah,” and
the president was like, “No, no, no. I wanna talk to the guy, I’m gonna talk to the guy,” and I think that kind of no-holds barred, no B.S. diplomacy is part of the reason why we’ve made the progress we have. And we’ve made a lot of progress, Laura.
In a Truth Social post following his discussions with the leaders of Europe, Trump wrote that he “had a very good meeting” with his “distinguished guests.”
“At the conclusion of the meetings, I called President Putin, and began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President [Volodymyr] Zelensky,” said Trump. “After that meeting takes place, we will have a Trilat, which would be the two Presidents, plus myself. Again, this was a very good, early step for a War that has been going on for almost four years.”
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