Trump says ‘you’re voting for the president … you’re voting for me’ when asked about vice-presidential pick

Donald Trump has said that vice presidential picks have “virtually no impact” on elections when asked about JD Vance’s fitness for office, in an apparent attempt to downplay his running mate’s role on the Republican ticket.

Trump made the comments during a combative interview at the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Chicago. Asked by the Fox News journalist Harris Faulkner whether Vance would be ready to take over “on day one, if he has to be”, Trump avoided answering directly and instead downplayed the significance of the Vance’s role.

    • @dhork
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      294 months ago

      Hmm. Sarah Palin is only 60. Dan Quayle is older, at 77.

      But it is possible that JD, at 39, might be their illegitimate love child.

      • @disguy_ovahea
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        84 months ago

        Don’t underestimate Vance’s maniacal potential. He’s definitely more of a Cheney than a Quayle.

        • @ccunning
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          “You say tomatoe, I say tomatoe”

          EDIT: Damnit. I got the 32yo joke wrong. It was Potatoe… 🫠

        • @AbidanYre
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          -24 months ago

          I have a hard time believing Trump would be the pushover Bush was. Though he is easily manipulated, so maybe.

          • @disguy_ovahea
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            94 months ago

            He’ll support any policies that will yield him money or fame. The entirety of his person is for sale.

            • @AbidanYre
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              24 months ago

              But he would also lose his mind if everyone was saying that JD Vance and Stephen Miller were really running the show like everyone did with Cheney and Rove.

    • FuglyDuck
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      114 months ago

      JD is doing his best to upstage that act.

      Really too bad the theater went to the dreamloungers. He’s too distracted to remember his lines.

    • Sumocat
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      84 months ago

      Ugh. Up until he chose Palin, I would’ve been fine with McCain winning. I was for Obama, not against McCain, and then he went and f***ed it all up.

  • @[email protected]
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    724 months ago

    i love how vance went from never-trumper to fellating trump with the insatiable appetite of a pitbull in a NICU, even knowing full well trump would throw him out the window like a big mac wrapper without a second thought

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      224 months ago

      There’s an axiom in the workplace. “A’s” hire other A’s, and B’s hire C’s. Kennedy picked LBJ, one of the savviest wheeler dealers in the Senate for his Veep; Nixon got Spiro Agnew, whose main qualification was that he was a pit bull.

      Trump chose Vance and Pence for the same reason; neither could be a threat. Both took the job because they knew they’d never rise higher on their own.

      • Optional
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        24 months ago

        LBJ was in on the hit.

        What, he was.

    • @[email protected]
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      174 months ago

      There’s a non-zero chance that old, fat, hateful, felonious rapist dies in the next four years. There’s no way he could become president any other way. It’s not like the weird couch fucker had dignity before this.

      • @[email protected]
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        154 months ago

        they’re going to need to hire 24/7 security for his grave to keep people from shitting on it

        • @xantoxis
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          24 months ago

          He already has the world’s best 24/7 security and people are still getting shots off at him. That grave is toast.

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          Don’t tell them that, you’ll ruin the party I’m planning.

    • The Assman
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      with the insatiable appetite of a pitbull in a NICU

      I’m dying 💀

  • @ccunning
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    424 months ago

    I mean they have at least enough impact for your followers to try and murder your last one…

  • @givesomefucks
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    374 months ago

    Well, regardless of who Kamala taps as VP, I’m pretty sure we don’t have to worry about them fucking the couch in the Oval Office…

    So I’d say it matters.

  • Funderpants
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    294 months ago

    That was bad, asked if JD Vance was ready to be president, Trump says he doesn’t matter.

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      To Trump, the question is absurd. To a narcissist, the world doesn’t exist or matter without him, so what is the point of planning for after he dies?

  • @CharlesDarwin
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    184 months ago

    Everyone is saying that donnie is too old to run and should just step down. After this, they are saying it even more.

  • @Today
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    174 months ago

    At the end he said, “if you like me i win. If you don’t like me i don’t win.”

    I was shocked that he actually appeared to be living in reality for a moment.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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      This statement really captures how he has officially become the sad clown. Clowns are such weird people. To have one be so sad, and also so old, is very unappealing.

  • @ohlaph
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    114 months ago

    He’s old and weird.

  • @[email protected]
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    114 months ago

    The best endorsement this poor guy can get is “he’s not that important anyway” 😂😂 Old Weirdo accidentally gave his running mate the sickest burn of them all lol

  • @Myxomatosis
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    94 months ago

    Grouchy old groper is embarrassed by carpet-bagging couch-fucker. News at noon.

  • @Nobody
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    94 months ago

    Clearly, the VP of an 80-year-old presidential candidate isn’t a position that might come with some authority down the road. The Oval Office couches are perfectly safe.

    • @logicbomb
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      54 months ago

      The VP actually has a great deal of Constitutional power already, as the Constitution declares them to be President of the Senate, with the power to cast a tie-breaking vote. Their ability to be Presiding Officer of the Senate, I would argue makes the VP more powerful than a normal Senator. The fact that modern VPs choose not to use this power, I think demonstrates that the VP actually has a lot more power than people realize.