How Zelensky’s lack of a suit may have fuelled Oval Office spat | Global News Avenue

It was the first thing President Donald Trump had when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got in the White House on Friday.

Trump said hello to him, “You’re dressed up today.” He refers to Zelensky’s military-style black sweatshirt decorated with a Ukrainian trident.

Since the full invasion of his country in 2022, Zelensky has shied away from suits, button-up shirts and tie-even during important meetings with world leaders, even at important meetings with world leaders.

The former comedian said his costume choice was a move that unites with the soldiers.

His casual outfit has long been thrilling with our critics of Ukraine and has been a conservative topic for years, an issue that has attracted global attention in spectacular ways at the now-infamous Oval Office meeting, as Zelensky has squared with Trump and U.S. Vice President JD Vance.

According to a BBC reporter, an American reporter accused Zelensky of not wearing a suit and disrespecting the occasion, which immediately changed the atmosphere in the room.

Not long after, greater respect and gratitude aroused the extraordinary argument between Zelensky, Trump and Vance.

When the meeting asked questions to reporters, Brian Glenn, the White House chief correspondent from the conservative cable network Royal American Voice.

“Why don’t you wear a suit?” Glenn asked. “You are at the highest level in the offices in this country and you refuse to wear a suit.

“Do you have a suit?” he continued. “Many Americans have problems with you disrespecting the dignity of this office.”

The BBC reporter at the Oval Office at the time pointed out that the problem was the moment when the Ukrainian president (which seemed to have diplomatic, even friendly, friendly conversations with Trump until then), he seemed tired and annoyed at first.

Zelensky replied: “I will wear clothes after this war.” (The word “suit” can transform it into Ukrainians, “Kostyum.”)

The Ukrainian president then verbally poked the reporter.

He said, “Maybe it’s your stuff, yes. Maybe it’s better, I don’t know,” he said with a smile in the room. “Maybe cheaper.”

Glenn’s question expresses long-standing pain in the political world of Maga, and some believe that Ukrainian leaders do not seem to show enough gratitude or respect for the United States.

Glenn is a worker on another pro-Trump right-hand broadcast network, known in Dallas’s former local TV journalist in conservative circles. last year He told Politico He is “lagging behind President Trump and the United States’ first agenda.”

He also reportedly dated Georgia State Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Trump’s most outspoken fans.

Founded in 2020, the True American Voice is a relatively obscure right-wing cable news outlet, one of several Pro-Trump channels that have emerged in recent years. Its guests and hosts spread conspiracy theories on a variety of topics, including the 2020 presidential election, the 2021 Capitol riot and Qanon.

Its performance lineup includes some well-known figures from the Maga world, including former Trump chief adviser Steve Bannon, classic rock singer-song-turned political activist Ted Nugent and Charlie Kirk, founder of the Conservative Turning Point Group. The BBC contacted the Internet for comment.

After spitting in the Oval Office, Glenn posted online that he had “great compassion for the Ukrainian people” but claimed that Zelensky’s lack of suit showed “his inherent disrespect for the United States.”

Zelensky’s Defenders posted online photos of Winston Churchill wearing casual clothes during World War II.

Photos from this period show British leaders meeting at the time-U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in jumpsuit-like clothes, who also wore military uniforms and suits while engaging in a gathering with world leaders.

The press conference quickly continued after Glenn’s question to find out if the United States would send more weapons to Ukraine. At the end of the answer, Trump returned to the litigation issue.

“I do like your clothes,” he quipped, pointing at Zelensky and said, “I think his clothes are beautiful.”

It is reported that behind the scenes, Trump’s attitude may be slightly different. US news media Axios reported that before the meeting, White House staff asked Zelensky to wear a suit and were offended when he was not in a costume.

But after the interruption of U.S. Vice President JD Vance, two world leaders continued to ask questions more or less, and became more or less famous.

Vance repeatedly raised “respect” – calling Zelensky “president” because the Ukrainian leader called him “JD” and said: “I don’t think you respect the fact that you went into the Oval Office and tried to litigate this in front of the American media.”

Discussions fell from there. As relations between the two countries reached a new wartime low, the White House relations quickly popped up from the White House.

Shayan Sardarizadeh, BBC verification and reports from White House Bernd Debusmann and Myroslava Petsa