06/02/2026
We already knew JD was a dud in Ohio.
BREAKING🚨 The New York Times just pulled back the curtain on the weirdest soap opera in politics: the president is openly disgusted with his own vice president — and suddenly JD Vance’s “MAGA heir” crown is hanging by a thread.
According to more than a dozen Trump aides, lawmakers, and donors, Trump has been venting for months that Vance is awkward, “cringey,” and just not the swaggering mini‑Trump he thought he was getting.
Behind closed doors he mocks Vance’s constant social media posting, his try‑hard culture‑war riffs, and that viral moment when Vance fumbled the College Football Playoff trophy during an Ohio State celebration at the White House. People in the room say Trump brings up the trophy incident over and over, treating it like a metaphor for Vance’s whole vibe: drops the ball, then tries to spin it online.
The reporting is full of little humiliations. On a recent foreign trip, Trump reportedly watched Chinese officials stage a choreographed welcome for Xi Jinping and then turned to his own team, complaining that Vance doesn’t show him the same deferential, silent‑bodyguard energy.
He’s told Republican senators that Vance “butts into conversations” and that he wants his VP to stop talking for a few days. He gripes that Vance has “never won a race” without Trump’s help and snipes about how much vacation time Vance takes, even as Trump spends weekend after weekend on the golf course.
Worse for Vance, the big assignments he has been given keep ending in failure. Trump sent him to Hungary to stump for Viktor Orbán’s reelection — only for Hungarian voters to throw the autocrat out.
He sent Vance to Indiana to muscle state Republicans into passing new gerrymandered maps, and they refused. Inside the West Wing, those flops have become part of the story line: whenever Vance is dispatched as the MAGA closer, the deal falls apart.
All of that is creating space for someone else to claim the “next in line” spot. The Times says Trump has started musing aloud about other successors, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, describing the 2028 pick as “very important” and warning that choosing the wrong person would be a “disaster” — pointedly refusing to endorse Vance even when he’s sitting right there. For a movement built entirely around one man’s ego, that kind of hesitation is deadly.
This matters beyond palace gossip. Vance sold out every anti‑Trump word he ever wrote in “Hillbilly Elegy” in exchange for a shot at inheriting MAGA.
Now he’s learning what every sycophant eventually learns around authoritarian personalities: loyalty flows only one way. The moment you stop being useful, you’re just another punchline.
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