Vance stood up for Hegseth on the "tricolor" on his tie during a meeting with Zelenskyy
Trump's ally noted Pentagon chief could have been wearing American colors
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at a meeting with the president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House wore a tie that caused controversy on social media because of the similarity of its colors to the Russian flag. For an official intervened american vice president J.D. Vance.
The politician responded to a post by Jake Broe, a US Air Force veteran and pro-Ukrainian blogger. He wrote that Hegseth was at a meeting with Zelenskyy wearing a tie with the Russian tricolor and said that "these people love [Russian dictator] Putin and Russia".
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"Or maybe he [Hegseth] was wearing the colors of America," Vance replied.
The US flag consists of the same colors as the Russian flag.
- Earlier, on October 17, there was another scandal involving a representative of the Trump administration: the White House spokeswoman and chief of communications gave a sharp answer when asked by a journalist about the future location of the summit between the American president and the Russian dictator in Budapest.
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