JD Vance has said he is ready to take on the presidency “If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens” to Donald Trump.
In a wide-ranging interview with USA TODAY, the vice president said he was “confident” President Trump would see out the rest of his term, but added he has had a lot of “on-the-job training”.
He also insisted to White House Correspondent Francesca Chambers Trump was in “incredibly good health”, despite recent questions about the president’s physical wellbeing.
He was specifically asked about the President's health in an interview, and gave a bog standard answer any Veep would say.
People are reading too much into this. Trump's health certainly isn't good, but he's not likely to pop off this week.
It'll be nice if I'm wrong.
I gotta wonder why he said that, especially in light of all the rumours surrounding orangeman's health.
Could be Vance is giving America a head's up of things to come.
What are you even saying, there is no reason, this is NORMAL. I too keep declaring regularly to my family that I am ready to step up and inherit my dad's house and live there instead of my shitty flat should ThE uNsPeAkAbLe happen. This is to reassure my dear family of my loyalty to my dear old dad and my confidence in his health, obviously, may he live to 150. Normal People Things.
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I don't do this, not least because I am in no shape to take care of a whole-ass house lol
Probably just answered the question the reporter asked?
We can only hope that trump does end up dying soon and this comment sparks some massive conspiracy and the right turns on and subsequently eats itself
Until we hear about sofa island.
They only need Trump to stay alive long enough to consolidate power. Then it’s phase 2. And it doesn’t really matter what anyone thinks as far as “respect” or “like” them. The long term plan is privatize everything completely moving the seat of power away from government altogether. We’re well underway.
They may think that, but it doesn't work that way. They need a singular leader to unite the base. Once that's gone, they'll fracture fast.
What comes next is probably closer to European liberalism. Better social safety net, but capitalism mostly goes on. The US doesn't have a groundswell of support to be any more anti-capitalist than that.
Maybe. Fractured, sure, but I don't think the Republicans collectively will be any less harmful without Trump. Congress and the governors will continue with the Project 2025 agenda under President Vance.
Unless all of the rich megadoners die at the same instance, nothing will fundamentally change. We're in a class war, not a Democrat vs Republican war. Trump may be the man leading the consolidation of power push today, but the reason that movement is working is the environment being ripe for the movement.
Trump dies and the minimum wage doesn't go up, fox news doesn't dissolve, and taxes on the rich sure as hell don't start up. Nothing fundamentally changes, and with the state of all the fundamental and important agencies worsened and delegitimized things probably worsen significantly for those orgs and their services in the short term while power is redistributed, reconsolidated, and resolidified.
Trump dying would likely just be the temporary slow down of the currently inevitable decline. You're right to say things get more chaotic and there is a large opportunity for things to improve or change - but believing the GOP disappears, and therefore we enter into a utopia, seems to ignore the underlying cause for their existence in the first place. The rich and powerful want to remain rich and powerful, and ideally become more so, at the expense of everyone else so they fund systems that further those goals.
Ummm, have you been in a cult?
Yeah, it'd require him to name a successor that's competent. A thing that will never happen. Trump has to be the smartest in the room, you think room temperature idiots like that can stop the cataclysm?
Agreed. This isnt a collective conservative front like the Tea Party. This is worship of a singular figure head. Once he's dead it'll crumble
That really depends on how deep the rest of them have gotten their claws into the controls
Maybe Trump won the election fair and square but do you think they won’t try to rig for JD Vance? With all the other shit they’re doing grabbing the headlines, what kind of “boring” administrative shit have they fucked with that the press is too busy to even cover?
Ahhh, but you forget two things.
One, cults usually outlive their founders, even cults of personality.
Two, Unitary Executive Theory. The Trump admin has been working overtime to try and figure out ways to rule by decree, and I think they're absolutely willing to Hail Mary with Vance. If Trump dies, I can see them trying to quite literally just decree laws and dare the various, rapidly dwindling levers of power to stop them.
Nope, they don't outlive their founders much. The few that do are exceptions.
There are cults of personality and cults of idea. Every once in a while, a cult of personality can outlive its founder by turning into a cult of idea. Mormons and Scientology are examples. This is hard to pull off, though. Most end up more like the Oneida cult, where its founder fled the country and it fell apart almost immediately.
The cult I was in, Jehovah's Witnesses, was never really a cult of personality (IMO). Russell didn't exercise particularly strict control over the group to begin with. Rutherford clamped down, causing a few splinter groups (a few of which are still out there). He turned it into a cult of ideas, and it outlived him without much issue.
As for unitary executive theory, it's irrelevant. It only works for Trump because the congressional GOP doesn't do anything against him. There is strong, aggressive debate among themselves, though. They could barely agree on a Speaker. Vance would weigh into it without the benefit of a cult of personality behind him.
I have a hope that the scramble for power will break the machine, but not much.
Something tells me you’re the one struggling with quality of life my friend. The world doesn’t have to be one big fight.
But if you insist. It’s well documented that many of the largest donors to the MAGA movement advocate for absolute privatization and deregulation across the board. They don’t advocate for democracy (representative or otherwise) but rather see it as inherently counter intuitive to economic progress. All you have to do is listen to them speak and read any of their work.
Also, by “better yourself” I imagine you mean “fit as a cog within capitalism”, which friend, you have stepped into the wrong realm for that arguement. I noticed you used “lib” or “liberal” and “blue haired piercing etc” in another of your comments— most of us reject liberals as too far right or centrist and those remarks are just inflammatory nonsense.
I fear you’ve fallen into the deep end when you’re better equipped for the kiddie pool. Good luck.
Guys I’m starting to think something tragic has or is about to happen…
Going from raging pantshitter pedophile to a dedicated P2025 patsy.
But he's a patsy who has not been president before meaning it could be another eight fucking years of this bullshit without any fight from the American public
All the alcohol we would be drinking.
TRUMP IS DEAD, TRUMP IS DEAD shout it from the rooftops!
Trump is dead, or going to be very soon, isn't he?
What beer should I buy to celebrate?
Enjoy the very momentary joy of trumps death when it happens.
If it happens in this term, you'll find out exactly what Vance is.
The Queen mean girl of the Nazi techright.
I wonder what song will start trending when the news breaks out, maybe I should start making a Playlist
Ding dong.
Six Schlitzes... or whatever's free.
absolutely, will need to 'protect' yourself from right wing nutjobs
Well I am in Canada, and nation with only 30+ firearms per 100 people. Maybe... maybe... maybe...
I dont think so.
Maybe if he's had a stroke or something, it might take them a few days to figure out the prognosis and decide what to do.
They would already have a plan in place for his death and would implement immediately if that happened.
Sadly he isn't. I drank the beer i bought in disappointment and not celebration. He showed up for another golf game recently and didn't seem any different. He is in terrible health no doubt and JD Vance would not say that he is ready to step up as president if nothing was the matter.
When Trump dies, no matter how, it will cause a fracture in the MAGA movement. The only reason why Trump is tolerated is not because of any intelligence or expertise, but he is absolutely able to command a hardcore fanatical base. Even Steve Bannon said that. They simply dont have a replacement for someone as charismatic as him.
I'd rather have Kilkenny. It is a true Irish beer that is owned by Irish people, and I support the Irish and their support of Palestinians.
While I also admire the Irish support of Palestinians not being mass-murdered, and despise the Guinness family, I'll have a nice Belgian monk beer, or three. Trappiste Rochefort 10 is a good choice, but there are many others.
Well it seems that Trump is not dead... at least for now. There is no saying he won't be dead soon, given his clearly failing health. Might as well drink to the fact that they at least hinted strongly that he is not long for this world. They can stop an assassin's bullets, but not mother nature's course.
Also Kudos on your fine taste in beer.
A stout. Strong and sweet.
Before i got laid off leadership said everything is fine. I didn't believe it then and this is way more obvious.
Pretty sure Vance isn't planning to kill him until after January 20, 2027.
To be fair he did not say that unprompted. A journalist specifically asked him if he felt ready to take the president's place should something happen. And it is downright misleading from the article writer's part to not mention that detail.
Yep, agree. I also think Vance would push him overboard for the throne though
Usha Vance is not an immigrant. She is the wrong color though.
Peter Thiel cares about him, who owns Palantir and wants to turn the world into a techno feudalist surveillance state
He’s going to kill Trump just like how he killed the pope
lol no, get learnt. https://podcasts.apple.com/...
“He’s got incredible energy, and while most of the people who work around the President of the United States are younger than he is, I think we find that he actually is the last person who goes to sleep, he’s the last person making phone calls at night, and he’s the first person who wakes up and the first person making phone calls in the morning.
Because everyone else is a hardcore alcoholic...
If Trump has the most energy out of all his staff. That's not a good thing for trump, it's a bad thing for his staff.
Same bullshit as when Biden was in office, like, I'm pretty sure they were saying the exact same thing when he was in office.
I mean. He was a marine.
He knows what hard work looks like, he's just a lying asshole.
“enlisted in the United States Marine Corps,[15] serving as a military journalist with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.[16] During his four years of service, he was deployed to the Iraq War in 2005 for six months in a non-combat role, writing articles and taking photographs” - Wiki
They still go thru normal bootcamp and training...
There's not many "easy" jobs in the marines
no different than the final days of Stalin, Tito or Franco.
Maybe a terrible tragedy should happen to the couch fucking popekiller.
"If Air Force One, carrying Mr. Trump were struck by a missile and blown up, that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic," exclaims Vance, "that's right. And can you tell me WHY that would be a TRAGEDY?"
"Well," says the boy, "because it wouldn't be an accident, and it certainly wouldn't be a great loss."
The only tragedies would be that Trump would have escaped prison and Vance would be President.
He’s going to pope trump
Couchfucker is gonna use the 5-point palm exploding heart technique on Chump.
The best bet here is probably to watch melania. I doubt shell be able to contain herself. Finally free amd while probably not mega rich after shit all settles. She probably wont have to worry about amything again.
She's his third wife, the pre-nup is probably ironclad.
We should watch for Melania and the trump kids visiting trump’s lawyers (to ask about his will)
Vance could use some more grooming.
They're going to need to wrap up the furniture in the oval office like it's moving day.
If God forbid, a terrible tragedy happens
Yeah, right. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if JD Vance has is eye on the oval office. Remember, he was an adamant anti-Trumper at one point. Sure, he ended up caving and kissing the ring, but maybe that was just a ruse. Either way, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump didn't make it all the way to the end of his term and Vance ends up being sworn in as president. That might be what some people have wanted all along.
He already killed the Pope, he could kill again...
« I just realized that I’m a benche warmer, I will never be revalent as long as he will be alive »
It'll look like silver when he's had his way with it.
I think the color is less important than you think, it's more about the crevices.
If it means he’s dead, then it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make
Will the loser take more vacations and flood the Ohio River Valley?
Can his baby face with his baby mouth fit Putin's dick? Putin's is very use to Trumps mouth right now and he might not be able to nut with his baby mouth.
“Don’t you think he looks tired?”
Then Mike "I-like-my-son-to-know-when-I-cum" Johnson will be in charge.
Translation: JD has selected a window
EDIT: Plot twist: the window is the roof
Air Force one stairs
Ok, but what about if Trump dies?
Couches everywhere should shudder in horror.
Expect the Supreme Court to overturn Couches v. Vance.
Did 47 86 it?
I don't think the country is ready for it. Think about it. If he died tomorrow would you have enough alcohol for the celebrations? I think not.
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