In his pre-MAGA days, Vance called Trump a “cynical a——” and suggested that voting for him would make someone an “idiot.”(Image: Getty Images)
Donald Trump has buyer’s remorse over selecting JD Vance as his running mate and initially wanted a woman on the ticket, according to a journalist’s claim.
Author and journalist Michael Wolff, who has penned multiple books about Trump’s presidency, makes the revelation in his latest work, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, which examines the GOP leader’s path to winning back the White House in January. The book reveals Trump’s apparent sweet tooth, with the president regularly treating himself to baskets filled with Starbursts, Laffy Taffy, and Tootsie Rolls. Wolff describes how Trump grabs “two handfuls” from the candy basket.
The most significant disclosure, however, concerns Trump’s preference for a female vice presidential candidate, mirroring Joe Biden’s 2020 strategy when he selected Kamala Harris. It comes as Vance was recently slammed for a “disgusting and inappropriate” act while on stage with Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika.
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Among the leading contenders Trump considered as his 2024 running mate before Vance were conservative journalist Maria Bartiromo and Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner.
Yet “Elon Musk told Trump his support for the ticket was contingent on Trump’s picking Vance,” according to Wolff. Sources close to Trump indicate he remains frustrated by this outcome.
Former Trump spokesperson Sarah Matthews commented to MSNBC: “I think that he feels this election slipping away from him, and that’s where you’re beginning to see him spiral.”
Harris Faulkner was considered by Trump to be VP instead of Vance(Image: Getty Images)
Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Communications Director, revealed on The Rest Is Politics podcast last year that Trump was livid about his choice of Vance.
According to Scaramucci, Trump “knows Vance was a terrible, terrible pick” which is why he wasn’t campaigning in swing states at the time. One of the major issues Trump had with Vance were the odd remarks the then-Ohio senator made during a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson.
Vance claimed that the country was being run by a “bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” referring to Democrats like Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
In 2024, Vance defended his comments, stating, “Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. People are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said.”
According to the book, Trump ‘regretted’ choosing Vance for the role of VP(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Vance, a father of three with his wife Usha, clarified that he wasn’t criticizing people who don’t have children. “This is about criticising the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-children,” he told Megyn Kelly.
“The simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way.
“I’m making an argument that our entire society has become sceptical and even hateful towards the idea of having kids.” Prior to joining Trump’s ticket as running mate, Vance had openly criticized the former president, labeling him a “terrible candidate” and drawing comparisons to “America’s Hitler.”
Yet after launching his Senate bid in 2021, Vance made a dramatic U-turn, publicly backing Trump and endorsing him during the 2020 election.
It comes as Trump was seen slumped in his Oval Office chair before chaos erupted, causing health fears to explode.