MS NOW host Chris Hayes on Tuesday clowned Vice President JD Vance over his “tough seven days” after his go to to Hungary, his failed negotiations to finish the Iran battle and his warning to Pope Leo XIV to “stick to matters of morality.”
“I feel like there’s always the threat for a vice president to become a ‘Veep’-like figure,” mentioned Hayes whereas referring to the political satire comedy sequence previous to an interview with “Pod Save America” host Jon Lovett.
“It could be a very dangerous and precarious political position because you are the No. 2, because you don’t actually get to control your own destiny in some ways. You can’t break with the president. And I feel like he’s had a real ‘Veep’-like week.”
Hayes recapped Vance’s “string of failures” beginning together with his try to attract help for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who misplaced “decisively” in his reelection bid on Sunday after the vp’s speech at one among his rallies.
Vance later claimed on Fox News that the administration knew there was a “very good chance” that Orbán, who wasn’t doing scorching within the polls, would lose and the go to was a matter of standing behind an autocrat who “stood by us.”
Hayes turned to Vance’s journey to Pakistan for talks on how one can finish the unpopular Iran battle.
“On his way there, he reminded everyone — this guy has no credibility and zero experience in this field,” mentioned the host earlier than enjoying a clip of the vp utilizing a weird skydiving analogy involving his spouse, Usha Vance, to supply his two cents on Iran’s ceasefire proposal.
JD Vance would later ship the “bad news” that the U.S. and Iran failed to achieve an settlement on the battle whereas his boss, President Donald Trump, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio took in a UFC struggle in Miami this previous weekend.
He then tossed to the Catholic vp’s “next big move”: choosing a struggle with the primary U.S.-born pontiff, a feud he’s continued to dig into.
Minutes later, Lovett identified that Vance went to Hungary to chime in on how Hungarians ought to “run their country” earlier than telling an American from Chicago to “focus on morality as opposed to war and peace and immigration.”
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