Critics highlighted an awkward moment in JD Vance’s Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday, where the vice president appeared to contradict President Donald Trump’s repeated boasts about the economy.
Hannity asked Vance about when Americans will “really see the engine of the economy start to take off.”
“Well, some of it has already started, Sean,” Vance replied.
“But some of it is going to take a long time,” he then admitted, disingenuously claiming that Trump had in his second term “inherited a disaster.”
Critics quickly pointed out the disconnect that Trump has been back in office for almost a year, routinely claims the economy is popping, and had vowed on the campaign trail that on “day one” he would “make America affordable again.”