Karl Rove Hammers Trump and Vance on Fox News: ‘The Only Winner Out of Today is Vladimir Putin’

Fox News contributor Karl Rove slammed the White House for publicly attacking Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance had an explosive exchange with Zelensky with the pair accusing the Ukraine leader of disrespecting the United States and “gambling with World War III.”

During a Fox News panel on Friday, Rove argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “the only winner out of today” and added it will be “really hard” for the U.S. and Ukraine to move forward:

This is why diplomacy should never be conducted in public. I’m confident that we now know that if, for example, in World War II, there were heated disagreements between Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill — but we didn’t see them broadcast on TV. And we what we saw were statements that came out of these big conferences in which the allies made an effort to move forward together.

It is hard going to be incredibly hard to walk back from the kind of animosity that we saw in that room today, and to walk back some of those statements. It could have been done. And if it had not been — if cameras had not been running.

But the only winner out of today is Vladimir Putin. This is a mistake to have it and have it broadcast. It was a mistake for Zelensky to get his — get his dander up. And it was it was a mistake for the president and the vice president to be so public in their in their comments.

This was not the moment that should have been televised. They should have had those conversations out of cameras’ sight. And I’m confident that then they would have been able to find a way to move forward. But it’s really hard when you’ve had the kind of coverage of this moment that we’ve now had.

Watch the clip above via Fox News. 

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