Vice President JD Vance provided an intimate glimpse into President Donald Trump’s character, revealing a trait Americans may not know he has during an appearance on “Hang Out with Sean Hannity.”
“He has the best instincts about human beings of anybody I’ve ever met,” Vance said in a new episode of Hannity’s podcast. “There’s an almost like, spiritual dimension of where he understands whether somebody’s telling him the truth or not.”
Vance said he is consistently stunned by the president’s ability to read people and discern their genuine intentions.
“He understands whether somebody is trying to pull one over on him or not… it’s fascinating to me,” he said.
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The vice president said the many powerful figures who meet with Trump, including corporate CEOs and world leaders, are no match for the president’s instincts.
“He’s the President of the United States, right? You have people who are constantly coming into the White House and asking for things,” Vance explained.
“And he has this unbelievable ability to sniff out whether this person wants this thing because it’s good for America or he wants it because it’s good for him.”
Vance also opened up about a period of his life when he believed he knew everything and how experience ultimately changed his perspective.
“I became arrogant about what I knew,” he explained. “My grandmother, who, again, was the smartest person I’ve ever met, devout Christian, but not an educated woman by any means, I sort of thought of her as a simpleton, as a bumpkin.”
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“I called myself an atheist at the time, and I sort of had this arrogance about me that I knew everything and people like my grandmother didn’t know things.”
The vice president criticized elite organizations, including colleges and universities, for encouraging people to sport a “hyper-rational” attitude and set aside instincts and experience.
He claimed those same elites, like military and economic experts who operate on rationale, damaged the country.
“I think that so many of the things that people said about Donald Trump… it was experts who assume they knew everything about economics. It was military experts who assume they know everything about foreign policy,” Vance said.
“If you look back on it, it was a bunch of people who screwed up the country but didn’t learn a single lesson from it.”
Hannity’s full, wide-ranging interview with Vance on “Hang Out with Sean Hannity” – covering his upbringing in Appalachia, the 2028 presidential election and more – is available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
