Young, ambitious, ideological, and with an apparent chip on his shoulder about establishment intellectuals, Vance brings to mind an earlier vice president – Richard Nixon.

J.D. Vance, the current vice-president, appears to have little intention of sitting back in the shadows while waiting for his chance at the top job. Instead, the former marine turned politician is rapidly turning into Donald Trump’s high-profile attack dog.

The clash with the Ukrainian president was the latest bold foray by Vance into pushing US foreign policy sharply away from internationalism.

Vice President J.D. Vance appears to have masterminded ... (Video of full meeting here.) Vance: "For four years, the United States of America, we had a president who stood up at press conferences ...

At least the Oval Office meeting held by President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance with ... Instead, Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their ...

Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe: the besieged president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who’d spent most of the previous two years being hailed by Western leaders as a hero.

The White House has come out strongly in support of President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance following their intense encounter with

Democratic members of Congress and Republican officials who have warned against Vladimir Putin ’s autocratic regime blasted Donald Trump and JD Vance for publicly lashing out at Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in a volatile Oval Office meeting over the embattled nation’s security from Russia ’s ongoing war.

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.