Peace Negotiations Fail. Trump Retaliates.

Apr 12, 2026 | Trump tells the world the US is also closing the Strait of Hormuz after peace talks fail.

It’s high time that Americans removed this president from office. The world will never settle down to any semblance of normality for as long as this incompetent man is in the White House. — © Mark Alexander

Democracy Now! Ahead of Hungary Election, JD Vance Campaigns with Orbán in Show of Support for Far Right in Europe

Aug 10, 2026 | Amid strains in U.S.-European relations, the Trump administration has worked to strengthen ties with Hungary and its far-right leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is facing his biggest challenge in 16 years. With just days to go before parliamentary elections, Orbán's Fidesz party is trailing the center-right pro-EU Tisza party led by Péter Magyar. U.S. Vice President JD Vance traveled to Budapest this week and appeared alongside Orbán to openly campaign for his reelection.

"This election is really crucial, not just for Hungary, but for the international right wing," says Kim Lane Scheppele, professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University. "There's been a lot of American signaling that the U.S. would really love to have Viktor Orbán be reelected. The problem is the Hungarian people don't seem to agree."

Scheppele also discusses the role of Sebastian Gorka, a top counterterrorism official in the Trump administration, who has longstanding ties to the far right in Hungary and has been instrumental in forging closer ties between the two governments. According to a recent New York Times investigation, Gorka is also leading an effort to target left-wing groups in the United States and abroad as "terrorist organizations."


Viktor Orbán, JD Vance, Donald Trump et al — all are birds of a feather! If Hungarians are wise, they will kick the corrupt Orbán out of office and take their country back. Just as Americans need to do with Trump. — © Mark Alexander

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Steve Schmidt: The Dangerous Alliance between MAGA and Europe’s Far Right

Apr 9, 2026 | JD Vance’s Hungary trip is stirring backlash and questions about his political strategy. Steve Schmidt breaks down what happened, the alliances involved, and why it could matter for 2026.

It is to be hoped that Hungarian voters find it within themselves to kick that repugnant, objectionable, loathsome and corrupt Viktor Orbán OUT OF OFFICE. People like Viktor Orbán, JD Vance, and Donald Trump are so odious. They seem to be competing with each other to steal the ‘crown of odiousness’! Fact is, when it comes to odiousness, it would be difficult to slip a cigarette paper between them! — © Mark Alexander

JD Vance’s Claims about Orbán, the EU and Hungary Fact-checked

THE GUARDIAN: US vice-president said bloc tried to ‘destroy’ country’s economy, despite it being a net recipient of EU funds

During his visit to Budapest, where he heaped praise on the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, days before the country’s decisive election, JD Vance claimed the EU was responsible for “one of the worst examples of election interference” he had ever seen.

Standing alongside Orbán on Tuesday, the US vice-president said: “The bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary. They have tried to make Hungary less energy-independent. They have tried to drive up costs for Hungarian consumers. And they’ve done it all because they hate this guy.”

How do these claims stand up? » | Jennifer Rankin in Brussels | Thursday, April 9, 2026

JD Vance must be just as ill-informed as his boss. He is certainly just as odious. — © Mark Alexander

JD Vance's Silence Is Deafening When It Comes to the Epstein Files

February 13, 2026

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IHIP News: JD Vance Booed at Olympics, Sending Him into a Stage 5 Meltdown

Feb 9, 2026 | JD Vance was booed at the Olympics opening ceremony and some news stations cut it out completely.

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JD Vance: A Monstrosity of Dishonor.

Feb 8, 2026 | A reckoning with JD Vance’s hypocritical cowardice in the face of Trump's racist attacks. …

Donald Trump and JD Vance Will Be Held Accountable for Their Actions and Misdeeds

Steve Schmidt explains.

Steve Schmidt: America Has Hit the Iceberg

Jan 23, 2026 | JD Vance denies the abuses as Trump’s Gestapo assaults Americans. Steve Schmidt warns that Vance’s lies prove the catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes.

Trump and his MAGA cronies have turned the USA into a nation of barbarians. It's going to take a very long time to live these atrocities down if, indeed, they ever will be able to live them down. Collectively, the nation appears to have taken leave of its senses. — © Mark Alexander

Trump’s Next Greenland Move Will ‘Blow the GOP to Bits’ | Scott Lucas

Jan 19, 2026 | Professor Scott Lucas joins The Trump Report’s Maddie Hale to discuss the US President threatening tariffs on EU allies, whether the Republican Party is divided over Trump’s desires to annex Greenland and the one move Trump could make that would “blow the GOP to bits”.

If it is true that the US wants to destroy the European Union, then the European Union must do everything in its power to destroy the US first. Bring the US to its knees! Be ruthless! Don’t pussy around! Act! By the way, it's beginning to look like Iran after the Revolution had the right idea after all! — © Mark Alexander

Anthony Scaramucci: Vance and Rubio Are Finished

Scaramucci tells us why.

Should Greenland Push for Independence So That It Can Negotiate Directly with Washington? | DW News

9 Jan 2026 | U.S. Vice President JD Vance told Europe to take Donald Trump's desire to take control of Greenland "seriously." Trump has repeatedly stated his desire to own the Danish territory for reasons of national security.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said that she does not believe the United States will use military force to take over the island. She called for a stronger NATO presence in the Arctic and warned that any American move on Greenland would have major implications for the alliance. The U.S.'s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has rekindled concerns about its intentions toward Greenland.

Steve Schmidt: We Will UNMASK Trump’s Secret Police

8 Jan 2026 | After an ICE agent fatally shot an unarmed woman in Minneapolis, federal officials continue to defend the killing and block state investigators. Steve Schmidt exposes the regime’s propaganda and urges Americans to demand accountability.

That fat-faced son of a junkie makes me feel like puking! He should have stayed with the eff*** hillbillies. He hasn’t a character good enough for the world stage. — © Mark Alexander

The Hillbilly from Silicon Valley

JD Vance.

Après les révélations explosives de Vanity Fair, Donald Trump et son administration volent au secours de Susie Wiles

LE FIGARO : Le président des États-Unis a une «personnalité d’alcoolique», JD Vance est «complotiste depuis une décennie»... Des déclarations de la directrice de cabinet du républicain ont déclenché une onde de choc à Washington.

Pour l’instant, les démocrates gardent le silence. L’occasion est-elle trop grande, trop téléphonée ? Trop facile ? Mardi 16 décembre, le magazine américain Vanity Fair a publié une enquête en deux parties sur le fonctionnement de l’administration de Donald Trump basée notamment sur une série d’une dizaine d’entretiens avec, selon le président des États-Unis, la femme la plus puissante du monde : Susie Wiles, surnommée la «Dame de glace», sa directrice de cabinet. Les révélations, également fondées sur les témoignages du vice-président JD Vance et du secrétaire d’État Marco Rubio - entre autres - sont explosives et dépeignent une administration très resserrée, entièrement dévouée au président.

Les révélations ne manqueront pas de faire du bruit dans le «Beltway», le Landerneau politique américain. À peine l’entretien publié, l’habituelle très discrète Susie Wiles a dénoncé un article «malhonnête». «Des éléments contextuels importants ont été ignorés et une grande partie de ce que moi-même et d’autres avons dit… a été omis de l’article», a-t-elle écrit sur X. Je suppose que cela a été fait dans le but de brosser un tableau extrêmement chaotique et négatif du président et de notre équipe.» » | Par Victor Mérat | mercredi 17 décembre 2025

Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and the “Junkyard Dogs”: The White House Chief of Staff on Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2)

VANITY FAIR: Throughout the first year of Donald Trump’s second administration, Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple has interviewed Wiles amid each moment of crisis. This insider’s account joins a portfolio of portraits for an unflinching, up-close look at power—and peril.

On the morning of November 4, 2025, an off-year Election Day, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was meeting in the Oval Office with the president and his top advisers, men she calls her “core team”: Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff. The agenda was twofold: ending the congressional filibuster and forcing Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from power. As she related it later, President Donald Trump was holding forth on the filibuster when Wiles stood up and started for the door. Trump eyed her. “Is this an emergency, that you have to leave?” he demanded. It was nothing of the sort—but Wiles left Trump guessing. She replied: “It’s an emergency. It doesn’t involve you.” With that, according to Wiles, she departed the Oval.

Wiles, wearing dark pants and a plain black leather top, met me in her office with a smile and a handshake. Over sandwiches from the White House Mess, we talked about the challenges Trump faces. Throughout the past year, Wiles and I have spoken regularly about almost everything: the contents, and consequences, of the Epstein files; ICE’s brutal mass deportations; Elon Musk’s evisceration of USAID; the controversial deployment of the National Guard to US cities; the demolition of the East Wing; the lethal strikes on boats allegedly being piloted by drug smugglers—acts many have called war crimes; Trump’s physical and mental health; and whether he will defy the 22nd Amendment and try to stay on for a third term.

Most senior White House officials parse their words and speak only on background. But over many on-the-record conversations, Wiles answered almost every question I put to her.

We often spoke on Sundays after church. Wiles, an Episcopalian, calls herself “Catholic lite.” One time we spoke while she was doing her laundry in her Washington, DC, rental. Trump, she told me, “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vance’s conversion from Never Trumper to MAGA acolyte, she said, has been “sort of political.” The vice president, she added, has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” Russell Vought, architect of the notorious Project 2025 and head of the Office of Management and Budget, is “a right-wing absolute zealot.” When I asked her what she thought of Musk reposting a tweet about public sector workers killing millions under Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, she replied: “I think that’s when he’s microdosing.” (She says she doesn't have first-hand knowledge.)

Wiles is the most powerful person in Trump’s White House other than the president himself; unlike any chief of staff before her, she is a woman. » | Chris Whipple | Photographer: Christopher Anderson | Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Part 2.

What an Awful Thing to Do to One’s Wife!

JD Vance’s insanity.

Kimmel Responds to JD Vance’s Remarks on Fox

Kimmel comments on JD Vance’s eyeliner and then some.

Lawrence: Did Trump 'Czar' Tom Homan Take $50,000 from the FBI? JD Vance's Answer Is, 'I Don't Know'

Oct 14, 2025 | Vice President JD Vance became the latest Republican to lie about government health care policy and the latest Republican to struggle defending a member of the Trump administration. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details Vance’s evasive answers about reports that Tom Homan was handed $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents. Lawrence shows how Sunday show hosts cut through “the fog of Vance-speak” to reveal his failed defense of the Trump team.

JD Vance Embarrassed on Live TV

Oct 13, 2025 | While most MAGA goons get the chance to spew their lies on the airwaves, JD Vance's appearance on ABC was a different story. Steve Schmidt reacts to Vance's ill-fated interview and the potential repercussions from the White House.