It was Vance who led the attack on Zelensky before Donald Trump joined the fray at the White House in a meeting that had been cordial until the vice-president spoke up to laud the president for seeking what he described as a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine-Russia war.

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.

While meeting in the Oval Office on Feb. 28, President Donald Trump and Vice President Vance got into an argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Vice President JD Vance acknowledged Pope Francis’ criticism of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, without responding to any of its specifics or to the pontiff’s apparent criticism of Vance’s own deployment of Catholic tradition to justify such policies.

Vice President JD Vance acknowledged the pope's criticism of the Trump administration’s crackdown, without responding to any of its specifics or to the pontiff’s apparent criticism of Vance’s own deployment of Catholic tradition to justify such policies.

Vice President J.D. Vance acknowledged Pope Francis’ displeasure with the Trump administration’s immigration policy and led a prayer for the ailing pontiff Friday at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.