Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) weighed in on the “shameful” behavior by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Friday after the two blew up on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.
Kinzinger ― in an appearance on CNN ― weighed in on the “embarrassing” clash as he pushed back at Trump and Vance’s claims that Zelenskyy hasn’t been “thankful” of the U.S. support for Ukraine amid its war with Russia.
“We should be thanking the Ukrainians for standing in the gap and fighting the Russian horde that’s coming into their country and that would come into NATO next,” Kinzinger told CNN’s Dana Bash.
He continued, “Today was very shameful and there’s a reason thateverycabinetmemberunderDonald Trump has had to tweet howstrong he was today, because they got the memo from the White House that they better come out and support Trump because this is a really bad day for them and they know it.”
Kinzinger, in a post to X, declared that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz “lose any of the little credibility they maybe had” if they don’t resign following the Trump-Vance meltdown.
“This was a purposeful ambush. There is no doubt about it. JD Vance is a vice president and shouldn’t even have spoken to Zelensky, a President,” he added in a separate post. “JD can eat a bowl of ass.”
Kinzinger ― later in his CNN appearance ― pressed that foreign leaders shouldn’t come to the U.S. and “bow” to the president, noting that Zelenskyy has to “stand strong” for Ukraine.
“If he comes here and grovels to a toddler that needs to be groveled to, like, what is that sending ― what message is that sending to his troops in the trench?” Kinzinger said.
“It’s sending a message that, ’Boy, our future really depends not on your ability to stay and fight but on whether or not I can grovel to a toddler that wants to be, that wants to be held and coddled.”
The former congressman went on to react to the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who declared that it’s now up to Europeans to take on the “challenge” of finding a “new leader” for the free world.
“They’re correct. I mean, I’m sorry, I hate to say this but the United States right now is not the good guys in this,” Kinzinger said.
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