NIGEL Farage has said that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was "rude" and "very unwise" during his meeting in the White House.
The Reform UK leader said he wouldn't expect a guest "to be rude to me in my own home" and that Zelenskyy played it "very badly" during his visit to Washington DC.
Asked if Trump and vice president JD Vance bullied Zelenskyy, Farage told LBC: "I think President Zelenskyy was very unwise to tell the Americans what would happen to them if they didn't back him. I think it was unwise. Vance and Trump bit back. But I think in diplomatic terms, I think Zelenskyy played it very badly."
Asked on whether he saw anything "intemperate" in Trump's language, the Reform UK leader said: "Whether there was or whether there wasn't, we're heading towards peace.
“We're heading towards peace. It's a good thing."
Farage added: "I wouldn't expect a guest to be rude to me in my own house, absolutely not. I would expect a guest to treat me with respect."
He said that he wasn't "defending" Trump and Vance's behaviour and that he would "try not to" behave like that himself, insisting the confrontation from the pair was "irrelevant".
Farage said: "This is where we all go wrong. We're all focusing on the row that happened. Maybe the row was bound to happen anyway. Zelenskyy wasn't ready, maybe for this, and perhaps the Americans weren't ready for it either. I don't know."
Reform UK has recently been criticised by Scottish parties for their foreign policy stances. In Parliament last week SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn branded the party as ‘Putin’s poodles’.
The US president's treatment of Zelenskyy has received condemnation from Scottish politicians, with First Minister John Swinney calling for his state visit to be scrapped.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he “will not be diverted” by the SNP’s calls to cancel Trump’s royal visit, as he accused the party of “trying to ramp up the rhetoric”.
