--- title: JD Vance url: https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/jd-vance/ description: 7 verified quotes from JD Vance, Vice President of the United States, with sources. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a contemporary investigator's evidence wall of printed social-media posts, network diagrams and a pinned world map, in the same dossier style as the rest of the archive.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/detail/hero-contemporary-evidence-wall.jpg) [Quotes](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/) · United States # JD Vance ![JD Vance, official vice presidential portrait, March 2026](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/trump-administration/jd-vance.jpg) [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:March_2026_Official_Vice_Presidential_Portrait_of_JD_Vance.jpg): Emily J. Higgins, official White House photograph, Public domain (U.S. federal government work) Vice President of the United States · United States On the regime page: [Trump administration](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/trump-administration/#jd-vance) 7 quotes, oldest first. [Filter with other speakers](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/#speaker=jd-vance). 1. **Content note:** Profanity; compares Donald Trump to Hitler. The words are shown as they were said or written. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) — > “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?” — 2016 · Private-remark · Private message to a friend Verified (secondary source) — A message from Vance, then the author of Hillbilly Elegy, to a friend about Donald Trump's 2016 candidacy. CNN published it on 15 July 2024, the day Trump named Vance as his running mate. — Private message sent in 2016, published by CNN (KFile, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck), "JD Vance, Trump's VP pick, once called him a 'moral disaster,' and possibly 'America's Hitler'," 15 July 2024 [Source](https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/kfile-jd-vance-comments-trump/index.html) 2. **Content note:** Derogatory remark about childless women in politics. The words are shown as they were said or written. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) — > “We’re effectively run in this country—via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs—by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.” — July 2021 · Interview · Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight Verified (secondary source) — Vance, then a candidate for the US Senate in Ohio, was talking about Democratic leaders and the role of parents in politics. In the same interview he named Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pete Buttigieg. When it resurfaced in July 2024 he described it as sarcastic. — Interview with Tucker Carlson, Fox News, July 2021, as quoted by TIME, "The Controversy Over J.D. Vance's 'Childless Cat Ladies' Comment," July 2024 [Source](https://time.com/7003456/jd-vance-childless-cat-ladies-controversy/) 3. > “I think it's ridiculous that we're focused on this border in Ukraine. I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other.” — February 19, 2022 · Interview · Steve Bannon's War Room (podcast) Verified (secondary source) — Said a few days before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, while Vance was a candidate in the Ohio Republican Senate primary. He went on to speak about fentanyl crossing the southern border. — Interview on Steve Bannon's War Room, 19 February 2022, as quoted by Newsweek [Source](https://www.newsweek.com/video-trump-backed-vance-saying-he-doesnt-care-about-ukraine-resurfaces-1698442) 4. > “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do, Dana, because you guys are completely letting Kamala Harris coast.” — September 15, 2024 · Interview · CNN, State of the Union (interview with Dana Bash) — Vance, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, was asked about his claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were abducting and eating pets, which city officials said had no credible reports behind them. A moment later he said "I say that we're creating a story, meaning we're creating the American media focusing on it." — Interview with Dana Bash, CNN State of the Union, 15 September 2024, CNN transcript [Source](https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2024-09-15/segment/01) 5. > “the threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values -- values shared with the United States of America.” — February 14, 2025 · Speech · Munich, Germany, Munich Security Conference — Speech to European leaders and security officials at the Munich Security Conference. He went on to criticise European handling of free speech, migration and the annulled Romanian election. — Remarks by the Vice President at the Munich Security Conference, 14 February 2025, American Presidency Project transcript [Source](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-vice-president-the-munich-security-conference-0) 6. > “Mr. President—Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.” — February 28, 2025 · Statement · Washington, D.C., the Oval Office — Exchange in front of reporters during Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to the Oval Office, after Vance spoke of the kind of diplomacy that would end the war and Zelenskyy asked what he meant. Vance's turn continued after Zelenskyy's interjections. — Remarks Prior to a Meeting With President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and an Exchange With Reporters, 28 February 2025, American Presidency Project transcript [Source](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-prior-meeting-with-president-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-and-exchange-with-2) 7. > “So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out, and hell, call their employer. We don't believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility.” — September 15, 2025 · Broadcast · The Charlie Kirk Show (Vance as guest host) — Closing remarks of an episode hosted by Vance five days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, with administration officials as guests. The passage follows his remark that civil society "flows from each and every one of us." — The Charlie Kirk Show, hosted by Vice President JD Vance, 15 September 2025, Roll Call Factba.se transcript [Source](https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-jd-vance-charlie-kirk-podcast-guest-host-september-15-2025/) ## Often attributed, not verified These words circulate under JD Vance’s name but could not be traced to a source. They are listed so readers can check them, not as JD Vance’s words. - > “I don't care about Ukraine.” — Paraphrase Usually said to come from: Often shortened from Vance's February 2022 War Room interview. — The full sentence reported by Newsweek is "I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other." That wording is published as its own entry; the short form omits the context about the border and fentanyl.