{"id":510279,"date":"2025-10-18T20:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510279\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:47:16","slug":"was-pete-hegseths-tie-pro-russia-jd-vance-says-maybe-its-americas-colours-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510279\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Pete Hegseth\u2019s Tie Pro-Russia? JD Vance Says ‘Maybe It\u2019s America\u2019s Colours’ | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The photos showed Hegseth wearing a tie with white, blue, and red stripes, which some social media users claimed resembled the Russian flag. <\/p>\n

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US Vice President JD Vance came to the defence of Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth after photos of him at a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sparked online controversy over the colors of his tie.<\/p>\n

The photos showed Hegseth wearing a tie with white, blue, and red stripes, which some social media users claimed resembled the Russian flag. The image quickly went viral, with Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s Special Envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, sharing the photo alongside a Russian flag emoji.<\/p>\n

Vance Defends Hegseth<\/p>\n

Responding to the online backlash, Vice President Vance defended Hegseth on social media platform X, saying the tie could very well represent the colors of the American flag. Vance reposted commentary from American YouTuber and former US Army officer Jake Broe, who criticized those spreading the controversy as \u201cpeople who love Putin and Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Vance\u2019s defence, many netizens were unconvinced. Some pointed out that an American flag design usually includes stars, not just stripes, and others found an online listing describing what appeared to be the same tie as a \u201cRussian plain flag tie.\u201d This added to ongoing speculation and criticism online.<\/p>\n

Purpose Of Meeting<\/p>\n

The photos were taken during Zelenskyy\u2019s visit to Washington on Thursday, which included a public briefing and a private lunch with President Donald Trump. Trump said that the US would work with Ukraine to push Russia toward peace but confirmed that Kyiv would not be receiving Tomahawk missiles.<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said Russian forces had launched drone and missile strikes targeting energy and transport infrastructure ahead of winter, hitting power stations, substations, and railway lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The photos showed Hegseth wearing a tie with white, blue, and red stripes, which some social media users…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2993,32,33462,166909,601,7664,166911,16911,166908,602,2046,332,47600,1757,657,75156,727,10020,166907,166906,2601,6709,1018,166910],"class_list":{"0":"post-510279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-defence","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-hegseth","11":"tag-jake-broe","12":"tag-jd-vance","13":"tag-kirill-dmitriev","14":"tag-meetingthe","15":"tag-netizens","16":"tag-oleksii-kuleba","17":"tag-pete-hegseth","18":"tag-putin","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-times-now","21":"tag-trump","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-us-army","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-vance","26":"tag-vance-defends-hegsethresponding","27":"tag-vladimir-putins","28":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","29":"tag-washington","30":"tag-white-house","31":"tag-zelenskyys"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115397135391103230","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}