As we’ve noted before, JD Vance has repeatedly risen to the occasion since becoming Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee in July 2024 and then later, when the Trump-Vance ticket won the November election.
Historically, vice presidents have been the wingmen of the presidents they’ve served under, helping make their cases to the American people, members of Congress, other world leaders, and the press, while also demonstrating to those watching both home and abroad that if something, God forbid, happened to the president, they would immediately be ready to step in and take charge.
Though this, of course, is not Trump’s first White House rodeo, it is Vance’s, and the video taken by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of Vance’s first time being in the Oval Office was something to behold. And yet, in the five weeks Vance has been in office, he’s been dubbed in some…
