Mike Pence was met with a very telling reaction on Friday when he mentioned Donald Trump at a security conference in Munich.

“I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, Donald Trump,” Pence said, before being met with a lengthy silence.

CRICKETS.

Germans aren’t the same people who attend Trump’s ego rallies, so Pence was crazy if he was expecting applause.

Pence traveled to Germany this week for the annual Munich Security Conference along with a bipartisan delegation, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sens. Lindsey Graham, Chris Coons and Sheldon Whitehouse.

Pence spoke at an award ceremony on Friday for the first recipients of a scholarship commemorating the late Sen. John McCain, who attended the conference numerous times.

In remarks on Friday, Pence knocked North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies whom he said “still need to do more.”

“The United States expects every NATO member to put in place a credible plan to meet the 2 percent threshold. And, by 2024, we expect all our allies to invest 20 percent of defense spending on procurement,” he said.

NATO members agreed in 2014 to move toward spending at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense by 2024.

The Trump administration has been openly critical of NATO, arguing that the U.S. contributes disproportionately to fund the group and, subsequently, protecting other countries that pay less. Members contribute toward defense spending in their respective budgets to fund NATO.

But this…this was the best part.

WATCH:

Addressing U.S. allies at the Munich Security Conference, Mike Pence is met with silence as he tells the audience: "I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/yr7SNVhCVf

— Axios (@axios) February 16, 2019