JD Vance sees 'picking fights with random people' as path to replace Trump: MSNBC host

Vice President JD Vance is using his apparent abundance of free time to forge a path to eventually taking over from President Donald Trump, according to MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire.

Jimmy Kimmel fired back at Vance – whom he mocked as “Vice President Maybelline” – in his monologue Monday night, showing a clip of him downplaying the administration's role in getting his talk show briefly suspended, and "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough wondered about the vice president's actual job duties.

"It's crazy, you'vegot a vice president who's basicallytroller-in-chief," Scarborough said. "We hardly ever say somebody is lying, somebodyis not telling the truth. Somany of his statements justdemand it because they are sofalse. You know, like, his, you know,his claim a couple of weeks agothat everybody knows there'smore violence on the leftpolitically, then, it's just –everybody knows that's a lie:75 percent of violence, politicalviolence over the past 20 yearshas come, you know, it comesfrom the right."

"If you'retalking about domesticterrorism, and that's like Cato [Institute],the Koch brothers, theirstudies show that, 'CSIS' shows that," he added. "But there's onestatement after anotherstatement that's just detachedfrom reality, and I don't know,did you think somebody toldhim be troller-in-chief?"

Scarborough noted that Vance seems to pick fights with various social media users on a regular basis, and Lemire said the vice president waded into arguments with individuals who weren't necessarily public figures.

"Sometimes just random people or, like, Substack authors," Lemire said. "It's a Washington joke about the lack ofresponsibilities [for] the office of the vicepresidency. But JD Vanceclearly has a lot of time onhis hands because hisnumber one job descriptionappears to be to, whether doinginterviews or particularly onsocial media, not only pushingforth, you know, false statements, but just picking fights, and I'vebeen told that he sees that,you know, social mediaobviously worked part of Donald Trump's rise."

"He sees thatcould be a similar path for himas he is jockeying with othersfor the MAGA mantle tobe Trump's heir apparent," Lemire added. "Butit is striking how muchtime Vance seems to have tojust do exactly this, to tweet. He seems to be onhis phone all hours of the day."

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