A month after the new administration of Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, all Swagger has acquired someone who has been working for years.
Vance, sitting with the Daily Mail for an exclusive interview, tells me that he is just on the phone with his boss.
“The president, although he doesn't sleep much, you know, he is only one man. He does not have nine pairs of hands, and he needs people in his administration to go outside and implement the agenda for which he was chosen, “says Vance, who goes back to a bank in his office in West Wing.
This is where things are done. On the other side, in the Eisenhower Executive Office building, you will find its ceremonial office – all chandeliers, mahogany and white maple – the place where cabinets secretaries are sworn in for the TV cameras.
But this room – where Vance spends most of his working hours – is less flamboyant.
Large enough for all his advisors to collect, the most important sales argument is the proximity of the Oval Office just a few passes away. He takes meetings of the unspoilt white couch, opposite guests over a layer of wooden coffee table or sitting at his desk.
The light green walls are largely bare. The only real signs of Vance's presence are a huge, Scarlet US Marine Corps flag, which hangs behind the desk – a reminder of his time in the armed forces – and a football signed by the Cincinnati Bengals, his favorite team.
It all suggests that a man is not worried about the attributes of the state and hurry to get things done. And maybe a man who can have an eye on the top track in four years.
A month after the new administration of Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, all Swagger has acquired someone who has been working for years.
In the Eisenhower Executive Office building you will find its ceremonial office, all chandeliers, mahogany and white maple, the place where cabinets secretaries are sworn in for the TV cameras. (Depicted: Vance Zweren in John Ratcliffe in the ceremonial office of the Vice President).
Apart from the fact that Trump, just a few weeks ago, pulled some eyebrows by telling Fox News-Gastheer Bret Baier that he was not yet ready to endorse his second order for his own presidential run of 2028: 'No, but he is very capable. '
What did Trump mean by that? Vance laughs at the question.
“I think he said exactly what he should have said, namely,” It's too early, “says Vance, adding that his only current focus is” the American people. ” No politics.
'There will of course be a time to concentrate on politics – [like] The Midperms [in November 2026] – So let's do it well and then worry about the midterms, “he continues. “And then we will worry about presidential politics at the right time.”
Europe is still faltering about the VANCE of VANCE, in which he gave an exciting speech the day after an Afghan asylum seeker and accused terrorist at the safety conference of Munich and the accused terrorist's car in a crowd in the South German city Had plowed into a crowd in the southern German city, the injuries of dozens.
The VP that chases the top leaders of Europe, warned the VP that the biggest threat to the continent does not come from artificial intelligence, Russia or even China, but 'from within', referring to their lax attitude on illegal migration and apparent hostility to free expression.
It shocked the European political elite, which led to Vance's 'Gaucherie'.
His reaction?
'Munich's speech clearly earned a lot of headlines – some good, some bad – but the thing that most of the headlines ignored, is the part in the speech where I said that the biggest driver of censors has been demonstrably in recent years the Biden administration , “he says.
'We [he and Trump] Believe in free speech. We believe in free speech, “he continues. “We believe that you can't agree with a certain point of view without labeling it outside the boundaries of a reasonably political discourse.”
Vance claims that he was honestly not on his way to provoke his hosts for its pure hell, but to give a vital message that the core values ​​of America are defended by hundreds of thousands of men in uniform.
“Those young people don't put their lives at stake for censorship, they don't put their lives at stake for allies who want to label migration limitation as an extreme right-wing neo-Nazi idea,” he says.
“And people have to realize that the thing that keeps the entire Western Alliance together is fundamental, American harsh power, and we are going to exercise that hard power on behalf of the American values.”
But Europe's excursion was not only about Vance who bows his muscles and told the American allies what is what.
His wife Usha and their three children – Ewan, Seven, Vivek, Five, Mirabel, three – traveled with him at Air Force Two and accompanied him during a meeting in Paris With Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Usha is of course the first Indian-American second lady. Her parents were born in the southeastern region of Andhra Pradesh, before they immigrated San Diego in the 1980s.
The second family also visited the cathedral of Notre Dame, recently reopened after the devastating fire of 2019.
'It's a bit perfect, right? Because I was able to work quite long days in Europe, but I would also have breakfast with my children and dinner with my children, at least most nights, “says Vance, his tone easily shifted from annoyance with Europe's leaders to paternal warmth.
“And it makes it possible, I think, to really bind your work if you feel that your children are there and at the same time you can be a good father.”
Little Vivek marked his fifth birthday in Paris. A photo, from the meeting with Modi, showed him frowning, to his father's great entertainment.
“You know, sometimes the photos just don't catch children at the right time,” says Vance grinning.
The birthday boy was also heard to complain that he was tired during their private life Evening tour through the Notre Dame. But he did receive three cakes – one of the American embassy and two more from President Emmanuel Macron to live up to the deal.
“So we had the perfect birthday for a five -year -old, because he had to eat three cakes!”
Vance's last action Before he left Munich, was potentially his most provocative.
The second family visited the cathedral of Notre Dame, recently reopened after the devastating fire of 2019.
While his traveling perspool was allowed in his other encounters with political leaders, they were not invited to meet Alice Weidel, co-leader of the extreme right-wing, anti-immigration alternative for Germany (AfD) party, hardly a week Can be documented, barely a week before the general elections of the country.
He now wants to point out that during the journey he met leaders of all four most important political parties in Germany – and he says that he is not going to interfere with foreign elections.
Eventually the conservative CDU won from Germany, with 28.5 percent of the voice share. However, the AfD rose to second place, with 20.8 percent-the strongest show for an extreme right-wing party in the post-war era of the country.
Chancellor-in-Waiting Friedrich Merz On Sunday focused on the alleged 'interference' of the Trump government in the elections.
“The interventions from Washington were no less dramatic and drastic and ultimately outrageous than the interventions we have seen from Moscow,” he said.
But Vance insists that his conversation with Weidel focused on the threat to freedom of expression in Europe.
He quotes disagreements about whether Europe should more or less support the war effort of Ukraine against Russia. Both are legitimate positions, he says.
“But I think it's ridiculous to say that one of those views is only Russian propaganda,” he continues. “Give me a break. I just can't happen to how many of our European friends want to label ideas that they don't agree as “illegal”. '
Vance also met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky in his hotel in Munich and says he tried to 'experience but regular' guidance that the war should end quickly.
“He clearly didn't get the memo,” he says now.
Hours earlier, Zensky had become public with his criticism of Trump and he told a press conference that the American president – who has made it clear that he wants the war to end as quickly as possible, even if it means further territorial losses for Ukraine – lived in a by Russian 'disinformation room'.
Not a smart strategy, says Vance – a man who, perhaps more than anyone in the past year, has learned how to deal with his mercurial and sensitive boss.
“The idea that Zensky is going to change the president's thoughts by turning him into public media … everyone who knows that the president will tell you that this is a horrible way to deal with this administration,” he says.
While his traveling perspool was allowed in his other encounters with political leaders, they were not invited to meet Alice Weidel (photo), co-leader of the extreme right-wing, anti-immigration alternative for Germany (AfD) party document.
Vance also met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky in his hotel in Munich and says he tried to 'experience but regular' guidance that the war should end quickly. (Depicted: Zensky and Vance sit opposite each other in Munich).
Trump took revenge in the usual bombastic form, which labels Zelensky 'a dictator' Wild in a screed on social media.
At the age of 40, Vance – a former lawyer and venture capitalist – has only two years of experience in the Washington Fishbowl.
But his journey to Europe, the supply of bumps of the continent while he provides soft power by expressing his respect in the Dachau concentration camp and that visit to Notre Dame -are broken in the family man mode with his Young daughter in his arms – suggests that he did – all attributes for the top job in a day.
And, here in the White House, it is safe to say that everyone knows-even a made-up president who will not go out of the spotlight.
