Vice President JD Vance, the first vice president from the Marine Corps, delivers a 250th anniversary celebratory speech at the Marin Corps Ball.
Vice President Vance recognizes some remarkable members of the audience and shares insight from his time with them and from his time serving in the Marine Corps. This is a speech filled with massive patriotism and enthusiasm for the spirit of the U.S. military and the Marine forces within it. WATCH (prompted):
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Vice President JD Vance appears for a lengthy interview with Miranda Devine to discuss a variety of current issues that have presented themselves to the Trump administration. [Full Video Here]
In the segment below, Vice President Vance talks about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, and the significant challenges dealing with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. As noted, Zelenskyy was used to getting everything he demanded from the former Biden administration; however, no end to the conflict was present in the prior policy.
President Trump is seeking to end the conflict, and has aligned policy toward that end. Both President Putin and President Zelenskyy must be willing to engage with each other diplomatically to resolve the issues. There is no current intention between both of the leaders toward a negotiated settlement.
President Trump has no intention to push U.S. policy into the middle of the conflict between Zelenskyy and Putin. WATCH:
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A few days ago, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took up lead position toward enlisting the TPUSA political movement for his future aspirations. Vice President JD Vance quickly responds by attending a TPUSA at the University of Mississippi. This is JD Vance’s first campaign rally for 2028.
The full remarks as well as the question-and-answer period are transcribed below the video.
[Transcript] – JD Vance (00:14): “Ole Miss, I got a question. Are you ready? Wow, that was impressive. They told me that would be impressive and they were exactly right. So, let me say a few words of thank you first to my dear friend and the widow of my dear friend Charlie Kirk. Erika, you have been such an amazing inspiration to the entire country. How much do we love Erika Kirk? She’s done a hell of a job. We have a couple of Mississippi senators here. We have both Senator Roger Wicker and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. Thank you guys for being here. We have the governor of Mississippi with us. We got an all star crowd here. Governor, thank you for being here. And most importantly, we have got over 10,000 students from across Mississippi.
(01:35) We are proud to have you and we know that you are the future of Charlie Kirk’s legacy, so thank you for being here. I got this whole speech written and I’m not going to deliver any of what I had written. I’m just going to speak from the heart, because that’s what Charlie would so often do. When I think about what we lost six weeks ago, it feels like forever ago when I was in a meeting in the West Wing, and one of my staff members came in and said that Charlie had been shot. And then I looked at my phone, and I saw all the text messages and realized that my dear friend had been very seriously injured. Now, in the West Wing at that time, we actually thought that Charlie had a chance. We didn’t know that he was eventually going to pass away.
[Transcript] MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning and welcome to Face The Nation. We begin today with Vice President JD Vance, who joins us from Cincinnati, this morning. Good morning to you, Mr. Vice President.
VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Good morning, Margaret, thanks for having me.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We are getting very close to that 72 hour deadline for the hostage release. I think the world is holding its breath here. Is the administration seeing signs that Hamas and Israel are complying with everything they need to and that this will go ahead?
VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: Yes, Margaret, so knock on wood, but we feel very confident the hostages will be released, and that the President is actually traveling to the Middle East, likely this evening, in order to meet them and greet them in person. It’s a big day for their families, but I think more importantly, it’s a big day for the entire world.
The President of the United States said to his entire diplomatic team, especially Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, to go and get a deal done, to stop the war in Gaza, to begin to rebuild Gaza so the population could live there in peace and prosperity, to actually eliminate the threat of terrorism to our friends in Israel- which is very, very important, and also to bring the hostages home alive. It was a very tall task. He pursued a very non traditional diplomacy with people who were not 40 year diplomats, but people who brought a fresh perspective to it. And of course, the President was criticized for it. The diplomatic team was criticized for it. But I think that because he chose a different pathway, he didn’t just do what everybody else in the past had done. We are now on the cusp of a sustainable peace in the Middle East. It’s a great moment.
Vice President JD Vance appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the Israel/Hamas peace agreement over Gaza and other regional issues.
As noted by Vance, the Gulf Arab states are willing to provide boots on the ground to establish the security parameters for the Gaza area, as well as the vast majority of the funding to rebuild Gaza and monitor the stability therein. Additionally, Vice President Vance discussed the government shutdown and the ways President Trump and OMB Director Russ Vought are working through the process of funding priority. Tariff revenue will be a significant offset.
The conversation then goes to the Chinese trade actions and the new tariffs against Beijing. WATCH:
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Vice President JD Vance and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt hold a press conference on the first day of the federal government shutdown. WATCH:
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Vice President JD Vance appears on Fox News Sunday to discuss the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, the “deal” that seems close at hand in the Israeli-Hamas war, and the ongoing Russian conflict with Ukraine.
As to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, there appears to be a race afoot. NATO and the EU team are funneling more lethal and long-range weapons into Ukraine in order to escalate the attacks deeper into Russia. Alarmingly, it does not seem as if JD Vance is ¹aware of that shift.
Even more concerningly, this weapons escalation in Ukraine is happening simultaneous with the same Intelligence Community team controlling the election outcome in ²Moldova, specifically to increase the likelihood of direct NATO conflict against Russia. Again, both President Trump and Vice President Vance seem unaware of it.
The bottom line is that direct military conflict between NATO allies and Russia is almost a foregone conclusion now, while Trump and Vance ponder the unwillingness of Russia to negotiate with Ukraine or the United States. WATCH:
[¹,² I know this sounds crazy but…. I’m beginning to wonder if the White House is being intentionally kept in the dark by the National Security Council, or by other professionals (Ratcliffe) who should be normally briefing them on significant changes in day-to-day events. There are a lot of unknowns looking from the outside; however, the recent comments from Vance/Trump do not align with demonstrable realities on the ground.]
Hours after a violent left-wing activist opened fire on a Dallas, Texas, ICE facility killing two, Vice President JD Vance appeared for a previously scheduled speech on safety and security in Concord, North Carolina. WATCH:
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Vice-President JD Vance guest hosted the Charlie Kirk Podcast today as he memorialized Charlie and interviewed guests who shared their personal stories.
At the end of the podcast, JD Vance then shared his perspectives of events surrounding the murder of Charlie Kirk with a powerful message outlining the hatred of the left and the solution to counter their evil enterprise. WATCH:
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The full podcast is below:
Charlie Kirk was a significant factor in getting the conservative momentum behind JD Vance as the vice presidential nominee on the Trump ticket for 2024. Without Kirk exerting his influence throughout the conservative movement, JD Vance may not be the current Vice President.
Vice President JD Vance and Charlie Kirk were strong friends and often talked. JD Vance penned a tribute to Charlie Kirk on his X-Account.
Today, Vice President Vance has cancelled his appearance in New York City for the 911 memorial, and will instead travel to Salt Lake City, Utah, to escort the body of Charlie Kirk back to Arizona.
(VIA POLITICO) – Vice President JD Vance plans to escort Charlie Kirk’s body and his wife Erika, some of their family members and close friends aboard Air Force Two to Arizona on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the arrangements.
Vance and his wife Usha traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah, on Thursday to pay their respects and will continue to where Kirk lived in Phoenix. The Vances had been scheduled to attend a ceremony at Ground Zero in New York City commemorating the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.