Jeremy Clarkson has hit out at US Vice-President JD Vance over his “despicable” behaviour in his encounter with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Who Wants to be a Millionaire host used his column in the Times to lash out at Vance and his boss, Donald Trump, following their ill-fated meeting with the wartime leader, which he called “an uncomfortable watch”. The meeting, which was due to see Ukraine and the United States sign a historic mineral deal, descended into a shouting match, with the former Ohio senator asking Zelensky if he had “even said thank you once?”
Clarkson was left unimpressed by the encounter and, in typical fashion, did not hold back in airing his opinion. He said: “In those heady early days, I liked the cut of Trump’s jib. He banned heavyweight boxing champions from taking part in schoolgirl competitions and he launched a scheme which would send illegal immigrants to that jail in El Salvador where inmates are made to spend all day sitting on the floor in their underpants and if they want a drink, they have to lick the sweat off the back of the man in front.”
He added: “Volodomyr Zelensky was hauled in front of the world’s press and openly bullied in what, let’s face it, is his third language.
“Soon, the whole gang was at it, demanding to know why he hadn’t sent the people of America a thank-you letter and why he wasn’t wearing a suit.
“Some have called this scene ‘an uncomfortable watch’. But it was worse than that. It was despicable.”
The Clarkson’s Farm star took the opportunity to describe his true feelings for the former marine.
He said: “I don’t want to stoop to his level, but I’m going to. Vance is a bearded God-botherer who pretty much thinks that women who’ve been raped should be forced to have the resultant child.
“I’ve searched for the right word to describe him and I think it’s ‘t***.”
The aftermath of the meeting saw the US side with Russia, North Korea and Belarus in a United States motion which refused to name Putin’s nation as being responsible for the war in Ukraine.
Subsequently, the United States placed a pause on all military aid to the country and stopped sharing intelligence with Kyiv. The reduced capability of Ukraine’s air defence, as a result, has led to an increase in the amount of people being killed by Russian missiles aimed at civilian areas.
The former Top Gear host has little confidence in Britain’s leaders to stand up and handle the threats currently facing the country.
He finished: I’m not seeing much Churchillian vigour from our current leaders.
“You’ve got Sir Keir Starmer fawning all over Trump, Nigel Farage parroting the White House line that Zelensky might not be the hero we once thought, and Kemi Badenoch saying that she knows Vance and that he didn’t say what he said. Except he did. We all heard him.
“I’m staying in Chipping Norton.”
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