Donald Trump’s attention wavered during an Oval Office meeting with the Irish prime minister Wednesday after he found himself more interested in J.D. Vance’s shamrock-patterned socks than inflation. “I have to just speak of inflation,

Vice President JD Vance lucked out when taking a small fashion risk at the White House on Wednesday. While meeting with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin for a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast, President Donald Trump stopped mid-sentence to comment on Vance’s footwear for the day.

Hours before an explosive blowup in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump and his team felt they had found a path forward to match the president’s urgency to end the war with the Ukrainians’ need for continued security assistance.