Trump vs JD Vance MELTDOWN goes public

All right, this next story is not getting the attention it deserves.J .D.Vance is becoming a problem for Donald Trump.J .D.

Vance is becoming an irritant like that mosquito that you're trying to slap and blow up.But it just it won't leave you alone.It's buzzing around endlessly.And what's happening is that Donald Trump and J .D.Vance are increasingly at odds over something that Donald Trump said.

And it is quickly building into a real problem for both of them.Now, let me set the stage.Sometimes I'm never like, do I go chronologically or I'm going to go chronologically here?This started a few days ago.Donald Trump was asked, what about how the Iran war is hurting Americans financially?And Trump said, I don't think about that.

I don't consider that.

Here is that initial video of Donald Trump saying this.

So that's Trump's initial answer there.So they went to J .D.Vance.And J .D.

Vance said that's a misrepresentation of what Trump said.The initial thing is Trump says it and J .D.goes, you it's the media's problem.

You all are misrepresenting.And can I ask you, Mr. Vice President, when approaching the war with Iran, do you agree with the president's position that Americans financial situations should not be a consideration in that decision making process?

Well, I don't.think the president said that.I think that's a misrepresentation of what the president said.

But look, I agree with the president that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon where obviously it's a misrepresentation.So this created the opportunity to go back to Donald Trump.to Trump, Brett Baier did.Trump ended up saying it was an absolutely perfect statement.He doubles down on it.He goes, I absolutely said that.

So I'd make it again.You can imagine how.And let me back up a little because we kind of stepped on Trump saying it was.

That's right.That's a perfect.So make it again.You can imagine how many people stop the soundbite at.I don't think about America's financial situation.So what's your response to that?

Very simple.When people hear me say it, everybody agrees.Short term pain.It's going to be short term pain.

All right.So they go back to Trump and Trump doubles down.So then Caitlin Collins goes back to J .D.Vance and goes, listen, Trump said this thing.You denied he said it.

They went back to Trump.Trump doubled down and said, I absolutely said it.What is J .D.Vance do?He attacks Caitlin Collins.

Hmm.Where have we seen that strategy before?

But just to follow up on the war, you last week denied that the president said he was not taking Americans financial situations into consideration when he's making decisions on the Iran war.He was asked about that again.He stood by it, called it a perfect statement and said he would make it again.Do you believe that Americans financial situations should be taken into consideration when you're making decisions as an administration?

See, Caitlin, what you did is you misrepresented the question that I was asked.

Right.The problem is Caitlin.It's not that Trump and J .D.Vance are not on the same page, because what Trump is saying is a disaster to say, I don't worry about the economics of it.

The problem is Caitlin.And you misrepresented the answer that I gave.What I said is that a question that was asked where the president allegedly he allegedly said that he didn't care about Americans financial situations.He never said that.What he said is that when he it was totally taken out of context.What he said is that when he is negotiating with the Iranians, he's focused on the national security objectives.

is induce trillions of dollars of new investment in our country.That's because he cares about that stuff.What he also said is that when he's talking to the Iranians, he's talking to the Iranians about questions, of course, of national security.

All right.I think you get it, J .D.You know, it's rich to hear J .D.again say Caitlin Collins is the one misrepresenting his answers.

J .D.'s entire answer was already a misrepresentation of Donald Trump's answer.Trump said it himself.What is happening to the average American's financial situation is not relevant to his decisions about Iran.J .D.

is playing semantic games by going.Trump said he Trump never said he doesn't care.Well, what we said is Trump says he doesn't consider Americans financial situation.It's essentially the same thing.Now, this is the problem with authoritarian governments.Eventually, nobody knows what the truth is supposed to be.

No, nobody knows what there's.They're constantly cleaning up for the leader in real time.So at first, when J .D.Vance was asked, what do you think about Trump saying this?His instinct is to go.

I got to I got to run cover.He definitely didn't say.And then Trump doubles down.So now J .D.is stuck in the worst job, which is explaining what Trump really meant.

We can't deny that he said it anymore.So you've got to go to what he really meant.And it was good.And Caitlin Collins and CNN and the media are actually the problem.The issue is that nobody in the administration can control Trump anymore.that being vice president would be an easy way to inherit this entire political movement and sail into being president of the United States.

He's doing hostage negotiation press conferences where he's having to deny, deflect and recharacterize.And the deeper tension that I see is that J .D.has a political instinct to try to sound populist and working class, not authoritarian.But Trump contradicts that and puts J .D.

in these positions of either you go along with the authoritarian thing Trump said or you have to contradict Trump or disagree with Trump.And that's a really complicated place for J .D.to be.I don't feel bad for the guy.He chose it himself.

But there is something just darkly funny about the vice president arguing against direct video evidence of Trump speaking on camera because J .D.has the sense this isn't a compliment.But J .D.has the sense to recognize that going along with that stuff, maybe Trump can get away with it because, as Trump has said, he can shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and blah, blah, blah.

You know, the thing J .D.is not in that position.J .D.doesn't have the charisma of Trump based on falsehoods, as it may be.

J .D.doesn't have the charisma of Trump to get away with saying this stuff.So he has to go, oh, it's out of context.It's not really what he meant.Blah, blah, blah.

Not a great position to be in.And our hope, of course, is that it destroys any chance that J .D.Vance has of ultimately becoming the president of the United States, because that would be terrifying.