‘So Depressing To Watch’: MSNBC Guest Chews Up Three Minutes Ranting About Vance Calling Zelenskyy On Carpet

Former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul spent three minutes on MSNBC bemoaning a Friday Oval Office meeting where President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling it “depressing.”

Trump cancelled a joint press conference with Zelenskyy after he and Vance argued with the Ukrainian president during the contentious meeting prior to the planned signing of a minerals deal that had been worked out Wednesday. McFaul aimed particular blame at Vance for the outcome of the meeting, accusing him of siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin and saying that he should be sidelined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“This is so depressing to watch. You know, our vice president, he won the election. I congratulated them, All the power to them. He’s got his ideas, but I just wish we could get this into a more professional channel,” McFaul said. “Honestly, he obviously does not know what’s happening in Ukraine. He is propagating things that are not true. I speak to Ukrainians every day. I speak to soldiers every day. They have held the line there and if the vice president wants to see true, heroic, heroic efforts, he should go and judge for himself, just like President Zelenskyy said.”

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“But the real thing is we need to get the vice president out of the negotiations here,” McFaul continued. “He is not an expert on these issues. We need the secretary of state to reassert himself and to take charge of these negotiations. Otherwise, we’re not going to be helping here and I want to be crystal clear about this. Do we understand what’s going on here? You know, when Hitler invaded Poland, we didn’t take the side of Hitler. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. We didn’t take the side of the Soviets. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and annexed Kuwait, we didn’t take the side of Saddam. This is a historic turning point in terms of American foreign policy, where instead of siding with the Democrats, the president is alluding, he wants to side with the autocrat, the dictator, Putin and that is not in America’s long-term national interest.”