Sometimes there’s so much going on that it’s easy to forget just how much we’ve been through and just how lucky we are to be where we’re at.
For example, we were about 1-2 centimeters from losing President Trump — but he lived.
We were 4 lawfare cases away from him not being able to even run for President like Marine Le Pen — but he defeated them all.
And for four years, we were stuck with the dead weight of the dreadful Mike Pence.
What a disappointment he turned out to be.
But if you swap the P for a V and the E for a A, you trade “Pence” for “Vance” and what a treasure JD Vance has turned out to be!
This guy is a stud, total rockstar….absolutely better than advertised in every possible way.
It’s far too early to even talk about 2028 (or would that be 2032?), but I think the MAGA succession is currently JD Vance’s to lose. He’s the clear frontrunner. He’s got the total package, and learning at President Trump’s side for the next 4 years will seal the deal if you ask me.
So I’m always fascinated to see him interviewed and to get to listen to him speak.
He say down recently with Lawrence Jones on Fox News and it was a fantastic interview!
I’ll show you a few clips first and then I have the full thing for you below.
Ok, now below I have the full interview for you to watch.
And you know I’ve also got you covered with the full transcript, because I know how much so many of you enjoy that because you’re in places where you can’t really turn up the volume to watch. I get it. I’ve got you covered.
Lawrence: Thanks, family. Bring in the Vice President—Vice President J.D. Vance, thank you for joining Fox and Friends this morning.
J.D. Vance: Great to be with you.
Lawrence: Last time we had a one-on-one, you were not Vice President yet. You were auditioning. Only candidate that said if you did not get accepted, you would be disappointed. Congratulations.
Issues that matter to the American people—the President’s tariffs. He got elected on bringing cost down for people. Also, bringing manufacturing back to the country. These are going to hit each other, right?
Explain how you get manufacturing here and get costs down for the American people?
J.D. Vance: If you go back, Lawrence, remember during the first Trump administration, everybody said Trump’s tariffs would be inflationary?
What happened? 1.5% inflation, fastest growing. And then four terrible years of the Biden administration.
It is useful to step back and ask ourselves: What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America?
The answer is based on two principles—incurring a huge amount of debt while other countries make for us.
We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy things Chinese peasants manufacture.
It is not a recipe for low prices or good jobs in the United States of America.
For 40 years we’ve seen closing factories, and the price of houses is so high most Americans can’t afford to buy a home.
President Trump ran on that, promised, and he’s delivering.
This is a big change, I will not shy away from it. We needed a big change.
We cannot go down the Joe Biden globalist pathway.
We have debt and deficit. We have manufacturing disappearing.
That is not working for Americans. We have to take this country in a different direction.
Lawrence: You see Wall Street and the media and markets, and they are freaking out.
I look at workers in the Rose Garden celebrating, diners across the country say we have lost manufacturing and they are celebrating.
What is the disconnect between workers cheering this on?
J.D. Vance: A lot of people have gotten rich from American jobs moving overseas.
American workers and American companies have not gotten wealthy from increasing growth of foreign manufacturing overseas.
As the President says, foreign companies charge us ridiculous tariffs and engage in non-tariff practices like currency manipulation.
That has been awful for Main Street.
It meant diner customers don’t have jobs, sawmills have closed down, and workers laid off.
What I saw in the Rose Garden was enthusiasm.
They have been working hard, young and old in the Rose Garden yesterday, and never had a President who stood up for American prosperity.
They see something shifted—Republican and Democrat, union and non-union.
What we did under the Biden administration was not working.
Lawrence: I know a lot of MAGA folks cheering the President on, especially when they take it to other countries.
I know people that come from our background living paycheck to paycheck, they want to do patriotic duty of taking it to other countries, but it will hit them.
What can you tell the American people that can’t afford extra $3 here and there about the government making up the difference?
Is this temporary? Three months or six months?
J.D. Vance: We hear you. You know how I grew up. I lived in a family that did live paycheck to paycheck.
We are fighting hard to bring prices down.
We’re doing a lot of things to lower the cost of energy.
You heard the President mention—eggs, when we came in, were at a 10-year high, and they have dropped 60% during the Trump administration.
What I ask folks to appreciate—we will not fix things overnight.
Joe Biden left us with the largest peacetime debt and deficit in American history.
You don’t fix that overnight. We are fighting as quickly as we can to fix what was left to us.
It will not happen immediately.
If we pursue deregulation and cost-reducing policies, people will see it in their pocketbook and benefit from the fact that foreign countries can’t take advantage of us.
Jobs will be more secure.
Lawrence: You can’t talk about tariffs and not talk about tax cuts.
Is this to offset cuts we are expecting? Is this a permanent measure or scoring of this bill—we’re going to be able to get cuts as result of this?
J.D. Vance: I wouldn’t think of tax cuts as a way to offset tariffs.
For 40 years, our economy rewarded people who shipped jobs overseas and raised taxes on the American worker.
We will cut taxes for American companies that build here and make it harder to ship American jobs overseas.
It is a total shift in the way we have done economic policy in the United States of America.
We will cut taxes. You will have more money in your pocket to deal with inflation.
That is not about offsetting tariffs—they work together.
We want to penalize people for shipping overseas.
Lawrence: Other news—reports came out that Elon Musk is leaving.
The President said he was only going to be here for a temporary basis.
DOGE will continue after Elon Musk. Will he still be advisor to you and the President?
You have a great relationship.
J.D. Vance: That report was total great news.
Elon came in. We need you to make government efficient, shrink bureaucracy that thwarts the American people.
It will take six months. That is what Elon Musk signed up for.
Of course, he will continue to be an adviser. The work of DOGE and Elon is not close to done.
Look at fraudulent grants they found. And people who are 150 years old fraudulently collecting Social Security payments.
In our Social Security system, 40% calling in are committing fraud.
60% who need Social Security checks are waiting in line.
DOGE has a lot of work to do. That work will continue after Elon leaves.
Elon will remain a friend and advisor of me and the President, and he’s done a lot of good things.
People don’t realize how vast and uncontrolled bureaucracy was.
There is a lot of work to do—it will take a long and committed effort.
Lawrence: Tell us about the news when it comes to TikTok.
Looks like the President will announce—maybe today—maybe America owns 50% of TikTok, a private investor will own the other part.
Will that happen today?
J.D. Vance: I don’t want to get ahead of any presidential announcements.
We have been working hard—me, the President, the entire team—to make sure TikTok app is not spying on people.
It is good for national security.
Give people access to this credible platform.
This is where a lot of young people get news and found out about policies of Trump administration.
We have to accomplish both things. We’ll keep working at it.
I’ll let the President make the announcement.
It will come out before the deadline. We have a couple days to finalize things—we’ll let the President announce it.
Lawrence: Lawfare—your honor, we’re seeing blocking illegal immigrants that came in illegally. First crime.
Second crime, they victimized American citizens—murder, rape, all that. What is being done?
We’re seeing one-off stories. This person was a great father and they’re hanging around with MS-13.
The courts are blocking this—the executive branch. What are you going to do about it?
J.D. Vance: Keep on appealing and fighting back.
Remember, the most important thing was to stop the bleeding—influx of illegal immigration in this country.
The President has done that.
Illegal border crossings are down 95% in pretty much every part of the American southern border.
Get violent criminals out of here and out of our country.
You are right—courts, radical left judges, said you are not allowed to deport MS-13 gang members.
We think the Supreme Court will overrule it.
The number of people who came in here—the innocent American girls like Jocelyn Nungaray who lost their lives—Democrats never wept for them or issued a congressional resolution of condemnation for their murder.
Democrats did not do anything to make it harder for violent thugs to come in and prey on innocent young women.
What they are most angry about is not that Jocelyn Nungaray was murdered, but that the person who murdered her is getting shipped back home.
We’re not going to let that stand in our way and will do the American people’s work.
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Lawrence: Can you put your lawyer hat on for a moment?
A gentleman they said should not have been deported from El Salvador—they said he was not connected to MS-13.
What do you tell them about that case?
They said this is a person that was a great member of society.
You have looked at court records and talked to men and women on the ground.
What can you tell us?
J.D. Vance: A few cases where Democrats in media say this person was an innocent father of three—
And you find out, for example, I think this is the case you are talking about—
2019, an immigration judge looked at data and concluded this allegedly innocent person we sent to El Salvador was a member of MS-13.
And committed traffic violations and not shown up for court dates.
This is not Father of the Year here.
This is a person who should not be in our country.
Whatever the argument is and justification—no one doubts, not even crazy left-wing media, that we can deport this person.
They just took issue with the reasoning we deported this person.
This is unquestionably an illegal alien and a person an immigration judge found had zero right to be in the United States of America.
We do not ask for permission from Democrats before we deport illegals.
This is such a weird, mistaken placement of priorities.
We need to make our country stronger, create jobs, make our streets safer.
What about congressional Democrats getting more angry at deporting violent gang members than the victims of the violent gang members?
Come back to reality.
Lawrence: Larger point about lawfare—pretty much everything the Executive is doing has been challenged in lower courts.
Is there a way to expedite this to Supreme Court or let them make the decision and appeal and it will go to Supreme Court?
People say four years will be up by then.
J.D. Vance: A lot of things we can do—limit jurisdiction of certain courts.
Even when they say you cannot deport that person for a certain reason—we can deport for another reason.
Radical courts are a problem.
We knew we would have this fight. We were prepared, and we will litigate to the Supreme Court.
We think we will win and end this question permanently.
Democrats are spending so many resources fighting deportation of gang members—
You have to ask, where are their priorities?
We’re prepared and will fight to the top of the courts.
Lawrence: I think of your life story, similar to mine—growing up with nothing and now Vice President of the United States.
J.D. Vance: It is a great country, man.
Lawrence: We are almost to the 100-day mark.
The President has been strong on the border.
We have seen waste, fraud, and abuse being brought to light.
How would you rate this first 100 days?
J.D. Vance: I think the President has done more in 100 days than any President has done in eight years.
The border is the biggest crisis. Two months in, border crossings almost at zero when it comes to illegal border crossings.
Where I grew up—factory closures, friends of mine getting their parents laid off, couldn’t afford a home—
Women worried about the price of eggs.
We are making progress on the issues.
It does not happen overnight.
Look at investment coming in—auto plants that were planned to close are now adding shifts.
Egg prices are down. Gasoline prices are way down.
We’re making progress.
There is still a lot left to do.
And the President is laser focused on it—so am I.
Lawrence: You have become almost Fighter-in-Chief.
President sends out message in bullet points and you go on Sunday shows and duke it out with them.
You duke it out with world leaders in the Oval Office, as well.
And people saying about MAGA—what happens after four years?
My final question to you—do you run for President after this?
I know you will tell me you will focus on being Vice President right now.
People are wondering—if we can accomplish this in four years, they want security in that.
Is JD the man to continue the MAGA agenda?
J.D. Vance: Well, look, man, I really am not focused on politics. I’m focused on midterms in 2026.
When we get to that point, I’ll talk to the President and figure out what we want to do.
If we do a good job, politics take care of themselves.
I want America to be wealthy again, and our communities to be safe again.
I want us to be opening factories rather than closing down factories.
I want my generation to be able to afford a home to raise a family in.
And stop ridiculous wars started by the previous administration.
There is so much to do, and I don’t think about what happens in 3½ years.
If I do a good job, and the President does a good job—and I know we will—politics will take care of itself.
Let’s do a good job.
Lawrence: When you do decide, it’s had to be on Fox and Friends.
J.D. Vance: We’ll talk.
Lawrence: We appreciate it. Family, just wrapped up with the Vice President of th—
If you enjoyed that, I would also highly recommend watching JD Vance on Joe Rogan.
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