J.D. Vance Tries To Make Up For Past As Trump Critic In Selectively Edited Clip

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) shared a notably shortened clip that featured him gushing over Donald Trump s success after Fox News Shannon Bream confronted him on his past criticism of the former president on Sunday.

While interviewing Vance, Bream pointed to reporting from The New York Times over the weekend that referred to the senators shift from someone who called the former president loathsome and an idiot to reportedly being on Trumps vice presidential shortlist.

The Fox News anchor later brought up David Frum , a Trump critic and ex-speechwriter for former President George W. Bush who has known the senator for years and who described Vance as having sunk to the depths of political degradation.

Now, hes not changed over the last few years, Bream noted of Trump. Hes the same guy weve been knowing for a long time. So whats changed with you that youre OK with the behavior and youre supporting him and maybe joining his ticket?

Vance shared a clip to his account on X (formerly Twitter) that begins after Breams question and shows just the senators response in which he talks up the former presidents administration.

The policies and the results were really there. We had low inflation, we had rising wages, and we had a world that wasnt on fire. And now, after four years three years of Joe Biden , we have rising inflation, a stagnating economy, and it seems like a crisis in every single sector of the world, Vance declares in the clip.

If you cant look at the four-year accomplishment of Donald Trump and say, From the perspective of 2015, I was wrong. I didnt think he would be a good president. He was a great president, he continues. Thats not about, you know, sinking to political degradation. Thats looking at reality and recognizing that Donald Trump was a success.

Vance, who has said it would be a great honor to be Trumps VP pick, addressed his past criticism of the former president in a 2022 interview with New York Magazine .

I think there are so many reasons I was wrong about Trump, but Im happy that I was wrong about Trump, he said.

Vance who got the former presidents endorsement during his 2022 Senate campaign currently maintains a friendship with Donald Trump Jr. where the two communicate over the phone nearly daily and attempt to meet up if theyre in the same city, sources told The Times.

Social media users mocked Vance on Sunday over his sharing of the clip.