Eddie Scarry of the Federalist urges the president to pay attention to his vice president on at least one topic.
When President Trump is asked about the economy from now on it would be a good idea for him to simply refer back to one of his vice president’s interviews last month. J.D. Vance was able to talk about it then in ways that Trump is apparently incapable of now.
MAGA people are nearly in tears of rage this week for good reason after watching Trump repeatedly declare all is well on the home front while he gallivants around the White House grounds with foreign leaders, showing them his latest gold-trimmed renovations. It’s not that the president is tending to world affairs or trifling with his silly renovation projects. It’s that all is not well here in America, where the people who elected him actually live. …
… Trump’s voters don’t care if he wants to indulge in the trappings of his occupation. But they expect a return on their investment, which was not cheap. We lost friends and family over it. Fortunately not everyone in the White House is so unbothered by middle- and working-class people having to constantly think up new ways to stretch a dollar.
Just two weeks ago Vice President J.D. Vance was saying all the right things as they relate to the economy. “We’re nine months into this thing, we’ve done a lot of good,” he said in an interview with the New York Post’s Miranda Devine. And then he asserted the administration’s proper ownership of the problem at hand. “There’s a lot more work to do because, I mean, look, the thing that I most worry about is that Biden left us a terrible affordability crisis,” he said. “We’ve got to make life more affordable for American citizens. Again, we’ve chipped away at that problem, but there’s a lot more work to do there.”
