VP Vance is Actually a Dangerous Choice for POTUS.

By Joan Swirsky

President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Situation Room of the White House, Saturday, June 21, 2025. Photo by The White House – Flickr, Public Domain, Wikipedia

How do we judge people?

And please don’t say you’re not judgmental. From the underwear you pick out in the morning to the foods you choose to eat to the people you interact with all day long, even to the guy you buy potato salad from in your local deli, you are making judgements every minute of every day.

Most people have “gut” instincts that make them avoid certain colors in their clothing and home decor, foods that even the mention of make them gag, and people who quite instantly are recognized as either good or bad actors. Indeed, gut instincts are all well and good, and people who depend on them are often correct in their judgements.

However, cold hard facts are even better. There is nothing like empirical, objective, irrefutable evidence to affirm that this or that judgement is right on the money!

My thesis is that the biased, leftwing media may have presented VP JD Vance in a favorable light––after all, they love anyone who disagrees with President Trump, as Vance has done on a number of crucial issues––but that the Vice President’s words and actions––the hard evidence––are what makes him a dangerous choice for President of the United States.

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LET’S PRETEND

Let’s make believe that you were right there witnessing history in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, when David Duke became so prominent he was even elected to a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. As Wikipedia describes him, Duke, now 76, is “an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, former politician and grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.” In fact, in 2013, the Anti-Defamation League called Duke “perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite”.

During his heyday, he was quoted, among other obscenities, as saying:

• “I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight….and they probably deserve to go into the ashbin of history…”
• “What we really want to do is to be left alone. We don’t want Negroes around. We don’t need Negroes around…”
• “Increasingly independent black economic, cultural and political power gave Blacks more freedom to do what came natural to them…Males exhibited exaggerated sexual aggression and promiscuity that led to the dissolution of the Black nuclear family in America…”
• “Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.”

While we’re pretending, let’s say that among David Duke’s best friends was a prominent U.S. Senator, whose friendship went back over a decade, and also a well-known media personality.

And now let’s imagine that both the Senator and the media anchor steadfastly refused to condemn Duke’s virulent racism and deep, visceral, maniacal hatred of Blacks and Jews. Would this cowardly senator be worthy of reelection? Would it be possible to take this racist media person seriously?

LET’S SKIP TO THE 21^ST CENTURY

But that is what VP JD Vance is asking the American public to do. “Tucker’s a friend of mine,” he has said of the wild-eyed, obsessed Jew- and Israel hater Tucker Carlson. “Do I have disagreements with Tucker Carlson? Sure. I have disagreements with most of my friends, especially those who work in politics…. We may disagree on some things, but we’re still good friends.”

Would VP Vance be so magnanimous if Carlson’s fetish was a loathing of mixed marriages, the kind that Vance has with the woman he insists on describing as his Indian wife? Of course not! That would be strictly off limits. And grounds for the dissolution of the friendship.

How about if Carlson had a particular beef not with Judaism but with Hinduism and never hesitated to scorn that religion and its adherents? We know that VP Vance’s wife, Usha, is to this day a committed Hindu, while he is a convert to Catholicism. And how many Hindus are there in the world? Ah! A cool 1.2-1-3 billion! Needless to say, that subject too would be strictly off limits. And the constant insults another reason for the friendship to end.

But the entire population of Jews in the world, about 16 million, and the entire country of Israel––with approximately eight million Jews––that’s a different story for VP Vance and his buddy Tucker Carlson and all the other like-minded racists like Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly and Nick Fuentes who think that little, tiny, besieged Israel is responsible for all the world’s problems.

What is wrong with this picture?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH VANCE?

As The Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen spells out in damning detail in his article, “Trump’s Iran Strategy is working. His Vice President’s isn’t,” VP Vance is either sabotaging the president or undermining the president’s agenda or working against the president, or all of these seditious acts.

“What has failed?” Thiessen writes. “The ceasefire and memorandum of understanding negotiated by Vice President JD Vance — which have driven Trump into a strategic cul-de-sac of negotiations, Iranian violations and U.S. retaliatory strikes, followed by more negotiations.”

“Worse,” Thiessen continues, “Vance continues to publicly contradict the president’s positions. In a recent interview, he suggested that… If [the Iranians] don’t comply with the deal…we’ve still done incredible damage to their nuclear program, and we can get on with our lives as a country.’ That is not Trump’s position. His position is: They’ll comply or they will get blown up.”

“The vice president doesn’t get his own foreign policy,” Theissen asserts …he is trying to dissuade Trump from resuming major combat with straw-man arguments.”

And who is J.D. Vance getting advice from? Is it Tucker Carlson, who Trump has called, among other things––and who can disagree? ––a “nutjob.”

MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT VANCE

According to Axios writer Mike Zapler, “there’s a not-insignificant GOP faction that…is already arguing against handing the reins [of the presidency] to Vance.” He cites the columns of Wall St. Journal editorial board writers Kimberly Strassel and Allysia Finley who have “ripped Vance for being too self-promoting, too eager to court Tucker Carlson, and too thin-skinned,” all of which they document exhaustively.

Among their main arguments is that Vance puts his personal ambitions ahead of governing, he has an irritating personality, he is politically naïve, and that he “cozies up to Carlson.”

When it comes to the hottest item in the news for the past three years––Israel and Hamas’ brutally murderous assault on thousands of innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023, we find Vance’s buddy Tucker Carlson defending Hamas, touting Qatar, the country that funds not only Hamas but Hezbollah and the Houthis, among other career murderers, and Vance rendered mysteriously mute when it comes to repudiating and rejecting these odious and empirically inaccurate claims.

And, for more than an entire year, while Vance’s pal Tucker Carlson was viciously accusing Israel of just about every crime on earth and sparing no slanderous language about Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and while Israel, in a truly existential battle, was fighting against no less than seven surrounding terrorist entities, including Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, various Iraqi and Syrian-based and Yemen militias, and Iran.

All of them Arab countries with the goals of murdering Jews and wiping Israel from the map not only on their murderous minds but in their publicly documented charters, founding documents, constitutions, manifestos and mission statements.

As President Trump, bucking world opinion, was giving Israel his full verbal and military support, VP JD Vance never once has publicly condemned Carlson for his ferocious anti-Semitic racism, never ended his friendship with him, and never apologized to President Trump for essentially supporting a man––that would be Carlson––who was doing everything in his power to sabotage and ultimately destroy the president’s agenda.

Just as VP Vance was utterly mute when his pal Tucker called Israel “one of the ugliest countries in the world.

Just as VP Vance mendaciously and inaccurately claimed that Israel’s only friend in the world was America.

VP Vance is not what our country deserves as the vice president he is right now. But for sure, he certainly does not have the moral character, the judgement, or the best interests of the United States of America in his heart and mind to be our next president!

Joan Swirsky is a New York based journalist and author. Her website is www.joanswirsky.com, and she can be reached at joanswirsky@gmail.com.