The term “unprecedented” was thrown in news reports and podcasts to describe the first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second, discontinuous term as U.S. president, whose billionaire adviser Elon Musk’s seemingly unchallenged federal civil servant, markedly slashed U.S. federal civil servants with European allies.
So far, it seems unprecedented to describe JD Vance's vice chairman.
Vice-presidents have traditionally toileted in the shadows of the men who appointed them, or have been given specific marching orders, as Vance predecessor Kamala Harris was, in being tasked to address the root causes of migration to the US The most impactful vice-presidential duty is breaking ties in Senate votes, which Vance has already done to confirm controversial nominee Pete Hegseth as defence secretary.
But after just six weeks of work, Vance is everywhere at events and online, where he often responds to social media posts. The vice president managed to get politicians from the UK, France, Germany and Romania as well as officials from the Catholic Church in the United States
An Australian Prime Minister calls Vance the “knob” and Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong recently mocked Vance Jesus in the suburbs From their American idiot Album.
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Vance has also sparked protests, a rare occasion for the vice president. This happened in Vermont on Saturday, where protesters lined up on the streets of Whitesfield, where the Vance family would be on vacation.
“Because JD Vance has no friends in Vermont, but he has a lot of friends in Russia, he should go there for vacation,” protester Tekla Van Hoven told the Associated Press.
Trump and Vance are accused of making statements in some respects, which would please Russian officials as they angrily face to face with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy at the end of the 40-minute meeting. Sitting down is the prelude to the signing of the framework for the economic agreement between the two countries, hoping that increasing cooperation on Ukraine's mineral extraction will help smooth the ceasefire between Eastern European countries and Russia.
Vance questioned whether Zelenskyy expressed gratitude to the U.S. military aid, which undoubtedly caused Ukraine to at least exhaust at least Russian military resources after Vladimir Putin approved the invasion of Ukraine. During the war, Ukrainian leaders thanked the United States more than once during Friday's meeting, according to the transcript.
When Zelenskyy asked Vance whether he would come to Ukraine since the war, fully understanding the answer, the vice president devalued other world leaders' visits to Kiev as a “propaganda journey.” These visits have made world leaders liberals and conservative salaries respect the memorial of the death of the Ukrainian capital of war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's key message to the United States was almost overwhelmed, when a meeting with President Donald Trump's Oval Office evolved into a game of open shouting. CBC's Ellen Mauro cut the chaos of the day to reveal how Ukraine's true pursuit and the history of diplomatic disappointment made the country crave the assurance of US security.
The Oval Office implosion will also come to mind, for those who remember, comments made by Vance in a podcast hosted by former White House adviser Steve Bannon, Trump’s first term.
He told Bannon: “I have to be honest with you, I really don’t care what will happen in one way or another.”
Vance's comments in a commentary to friendly Fox News host Sean Hannity in an interview Monday were not too wary, but he added fuel to the fire with his deputy's comments, which seemed to be demeaning Europe's peacekeeping efforts.
“The future economic upside potential for Ukraine is a better security guarantee than the 20,000 soldiers in a random country without war in 30 or 40 years,” he said.
Vance denied that his comments were about Britain or France, but only they were publicly committed to European peacekeeping forces after the war.
Officials from both countries were offended.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on X: “French and British soldiers fighting terrorism sometimes fight alongside American soldiers, and should be more disdainful than the US vice president.”
James Cartlidge, a defense spokesman for the British opposition Conservative Party, said Vance's remarks were “deeply disrespectful”, while British veteran and former junior defense minister Johnny Mercer called Vance the “Joker”.
Vice President as an Attack Dog
The U.S. Vice President has previously held the role of attacking dogs. Spiro Agnew, on behalf of President Richard Nixon, turned his eyes to criticism and in his speech, called the media “the core of the rude snob” and called the congressional opposition planned by the Nixon administration “natter natter of Natabobs of Negativism.”
But most of Vance's controversial statements so far have involved foreign policy as he questioned the leaders' faces and even gave lectures to their faces.
At the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Vice President JD Vance accused European allies of allegedly suppressing freedom of speech, a threat he called greater than Russia or China. Vance also accused the host Germany of silenced right-wing political voices.
The UK is already on the receiving end of Vance Poke as he made an opinion on freelance commenters in the UK and rebuked the Oval Office in the Oval Office after it made a requestless comment.
Last month, in Germany, Vance bypassed coalition officials and met with the AFD leaders on the far right.
Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and credible reports that Putin’s critics were killed or killed in European cities, Vance said Russia is not the biggest problem on the continent. Instead, he talked about the “internal threat” of criticism about policy and law on speech, assembly freedom and immigration.
In sharp contrast with Trump's first vice president
Vance's comments can be compared with those of Mike Pence, who appeared at the same summit with Vice President Trump eight years ago.
Pence told the party that European countries need to spend more on their defenses, and he also assured them that the United States will “stand with Europe today and every day” and that the Trump administration will “continue to be responsible for Russia, even as we seek new common grounds.”
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Of course, Pence ended his vice president, in violation of Trump's wishes, and he was willing to fraudulently say his losses to election injustice in the 2020 presidential election. A group of Trump's supporters descended on January 6, 2021 and recited the scriptures “hang Mike Pence”.
When Trump chose Vance as his campaign partner last year, Tucker Carlson told Axios that one reason was that “he wouldn’t secretly hate Trump like everyone else,” he refers to other vice presidential candidates.
The firm support at that time was only a few years. In 2016, Trump wrote in USA Today that Trump's policies were “like immorality to the absurd scope”, and he also criticized the real estate Mogul-Candunter-Canding in an interview with CBC News.
Vance has since said Trump has opened his eyes to corruption in Washington through his campaign and his first term in office.
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Former White House adviser Bruce Reed has conducted 2018 book with journalist Kate Andersen Bower First: President, Vice-Chairman and the Pursuit of Powersaid history shows that the relationship between the president and the vice president can develop or become acidic over time.
“The real power of the vice president comes from his relationship with the president,” said former vice president Reed. “In the end, the president only chose to do that.”
Currently, Vance seems to have a long belt, and his comments may indicate anger among Western allies, and some form of Trumpism does not disappear whenever its promoters leave the political stage.
