Vice President Vance praised President Trump’s approach to his second term, touting the quick and broad actions of the new administration as well as the stamina of the president compared to his predecessor after just over a week in office.
“You’ll get phone calls at 1 in the morning and — he’ll talk about policy and he’ll talk about your family…. there’s something incredibly energetic about him, but you sort of need that actually,” Vance said in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that aired on Wednesday.
“The federal government has become so sprawling and their bureaucracy is so unresponsive to what the president actually wants to do that you kind of need somebody in there who’s constantly on. It’s all gas, no breaks. That’s certainly what we’ve seen in the last, you know, eight days. I think that’s what we’ll see for the next four years,” Vance added.
He also said that Trump “has incredible energy” and questioned “how much he sleeps or if he ever really sleeps.”
Throughout the interview, Vance took jabs at the President Biden and his administration and argued that the Trump administration has accomplished more in a week than the former White House did in four years in office.
“We’ve, I think, accomplished, honestly, more in eight days than the entire Biden administration accomplished in four years. And of course, the things that we’re accomplishing are actually good things and the things they were accomplishing were mostly bad things,” Vance said.
He later took another shot at Biden later in the interview, arguing that people in D.C. are shocked by Trump’s stamina and his interactions with the press.
“The other thing about his energy level is he’s extremely accessible, right? And I know it’s kind of shocking to the White House press corps, to everybody in Washington, that the president actually is engaged in the people’s government,” Vance said. “That’s, of course, exactly what you want, but it is a very radical departure from the last four years.”
When Hannity asked what he has learned about Trump so far, the vice president replied that “he has the most interesting decision-making process of any person I’ve ever met.”
He outlined that Trump “doesn’t just ask his closest adviser or some policy person” but said that he will take inputs from elsewhere, like a business’ CEO or workers.
Vance also discussed recent deportations during the interview, as well as the Trump administration’s relationship with the press and how he feels about being a heartbeat away from the presidency.
“Part of the job is, God forbid, if something terrible happens, I have to step into that role. But I think President Trump is in incredible health. I think that we’ve got a great situation when it comes to security around the president,” Vance told Hannity. “And I really do think that he’s going to serve four years, do a great job and I’m going to do as good of a job I can for the American people as vice president.”
