Trump and Vance have never seen war up close, but are still disgusted by it. They seem to have felt Zelensky, soaked in war’s horror for three years, needed a lecture about the peace anyone who had seen war would yearn for.

The remarkable scene of a vice president injecting himself into a tense diplomatic discussion suggested that JD Vance does not want to be relegated to the B-team of the Trump administration.

President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukraine President Zelensky got into an extremely heated back and forth in the Oval Office on Friday when Zelensky asked Vance to visit Ukraine and Vance denounced "doing propaganda tours.