I See BS Townhall With JD Vance!

Sorry Mr. Vice President, we don't have a couch to hump on.

For an hour, Vice President JD Vance sits down with Tony Dokoupil in Michigan to diss Abdul El-Sayed, Iran, the left, former president Joe Biden and other entities.

The vice president tries to spin The White House narrative when it comes to the chaos of his boss, President Donald J. Trump.

War with Iran & Military Accountability: Joey Amor—the husband of Master Sgt. Nicole Amor, who was killed in a March 2026 Iranian drone strike in Kuwait—confronted Vance regarding fundamental failures in the conflict. Vance responded that it was the first time he had heard of those specific allegations. The president, vice president, Department of Defense Pete Hegseth get to celebrate with their families at football games, town halls, vacations and publicity events. They showed no care for the U.S. Naval officers who were out to sea for months on the USS Lincoln. 

High Gas Prices & Economy: Pushed by a local barber and a struggling small-business owner about persistent high costs, Vance blamed disruptions from Iran's attacks on shipping and claimed that 20% of U.S. refining capacity went offline under the Biden administration. He acknowledged that turning the economy around would take longer than 18 months. A classic deflection tactic. Trump did it when former president Barack Obama was in office and now its being rehashed again with his predecessor former president Joe Biden. Trump has imposed tariffs on many of our trading partners. He started a war with Iran despite U.S. intelligence warning of blowback. 

Allegations of White House Corruption: Confronted about Trump's cryptocurrency earnings and the ousting of U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle over a $100,000 wire-tap/access allegation, Vance stated that selling access to the White House is "disgusting and despicable," though he urged decisions to be based on facts rather than media reports. The former ambassador allegedly tried to offer sex to Eric Deters, a Cincinnati area Republican attorney who blew the whistle on the former fiance of Donald Trump, Jr. Guilfoyle was forced to resign shortly after meeting with Greek leaders. The former White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia couldn't even address it during her first and only press briefing before she was fired on Friday.

Vance defended Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations while conceding that federal agents have a responsibility to face investigation when they "screw up". Killing American citizens, detaining lawful citizens, deporting non criminal immigrants opens the door for other countries to do their own deportation services. The Global South is actively trying boot Americans and find ways to bypass the U.S. dollar. They are getting tired of being scapegoated for America's fuck ups.

When pressed on his political future, Vance acknowledged that there is "of course" a chance he may not run for president in 2028. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance had another child. If he was to run for president, he would not have any time to be with his son. It would be a huge distraction to oversee a presidency when you can't take you children out for an ice cream cone.

Vance faced tough questions from voters about the Trump administration’s policies on data centers, high costs, immigration and his own rhetoric in a town hall on CBS News that aired Saturday night.

The string of sharp queries, some from voters who said they had supported him and Trump, previewed the rocky path he may face trying to answer for the administration’s record if he runs for president himself in 2028.

Vance, who said during the town hall there’s “of course” a chance he doesn’t run for president, faced an especially pointed question about “a failure of leadership” posted by the widow of one of six U.S. soldiers killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait, which occurred the day after Trump started the war with Iran.

“This literally is the first time I’ve heard of this,” Vance said in response.

As he went on, he said, “This job is an amazing honor, but you live in a bit of a bubble and sometimes information doesn’t filter up.”

Questions about Iran war strategy and costs

After telling the vice president about his late wife, Master Sgt. Nicole Amor, who was killed on March 1, Joey Amor asked about mistakes and fundamental failures that led up to the deaths of those soldiers and how leaders would be held accountable.

Vance seemed taken aback by Amor’s questions, saying, “This literally is the first time I’ve heard of this,” and said he wanted to talk with Amor to learn more after.

But as Vance went on, he acknowledged mistakes were made and said, “there were issues with where troops were located that we realized was a huge mistake that we could do better on, and we have changed that.”

A Michigan man who said he voted for Trump and Vance in 2024 but now plans to vote for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed pressed Vance about the high gasoline prices resulting from the war. In response, Vance said he recognized that gas prices were too high, and said, “I think it’s important to be honest about why they’re so elevated.”

He said it was because of “what’s happening in the Middle East” and said the administration was taking steps to try to lower prices.

“We’ve never had a situation like this where you have effectively, the largest state sponsor of terrorism that’s trying to choke off world energy supply,” Vance said, without acknowledging that situation occurred because of the war Trump launched.

He also blamed former President Joe Biden, saying that during his tenure, America’s refining capacity was diminished.

But when Vance was pressed on the Trump administration owning the current situation, the vice president suggested that looking backward for blame was not the way.

“Fundamentally, we are where we are, and you have to, in my view, I’d like to know what is Abdul El-Sayed’s solution for the problem that we have right now,” Vance said. “It’s easy to criticize something that happened seven months ago.”

Immigration enforcement tactics and the rhetoric around immigrants

A nun who spoke to Vance about their shared Catholic faith questioned the administration’s hardline immigration enforcement tactics, including children who are separated from their parents when the adults are swept up in sweeps, and how that squared with their values.

“We’re trying to strike the right balance,” Vance said. When moderator Tony Dokoupil asked Vance if the administration is not striking that balance, Vance replied, “I think that is constantly a work in progress.”

He admitted that, “Sometimes you have some people who made mistakes. Sometimes you have some people who really screw up.”

When Dokoupil asked for specific examples, Vance said there are a number of cases the administration has investigated that resulted in further training or discipline for immigration enforcement officers, but said they don’t advertise it publicly in order to let investigations play out.

Another voter, who said she became an immigrant five years ago and voted for Vance after becoming a U.S. citizen, asked him pointedly about his recent remarks referring to H1-B visa holders as, “foreign indentured servants,” and accused him of “scapegoating immigrants for the issues you’re supposed to be solving.”

“To the extent that my rhetoric has been imperfect here, that’s on me,” Vance said, before explaining that he was trying to criticize the companies that bring in the workers, not the immigrant workers themselves.

Selling access to the White House is ‘disgusting and despicable’

Dokoupil pressed Vance on whether Trump and others in his administration were profiting off the presidency, including the nearly $1.2 billion the president took in from his crypto businesses last year, according to a federal filing. When asked if he’d seen anything in the White House that made him squeamish, Vance said, “I’ve never seen anything like that from the president.”

He said, though, that there is evidence of corruption in Washington, but he doesn’t see evidence of it from the president or the administration.

Vance said he’s read articles about allegations, but said he goes to investigate claims himself and finds that they are not true.

Dokoupil asked Vance about the president’s crypto profits, along with the recent resignation of his ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, over allegations she denies that she was leveraging her position for benefits.

“If somebody’s selling access to the White House, that’s disgusting and despicable and they should suffer consequences,” Vance said.