Vice President JD Vance said that his lifestyle was “totally transformed” after taking office, noting that he flies on his own plane, never goes to the grocery store and has an “army of people” willing to “cook me my food.”
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“I still haven’t gotten used to it,” Vance said in an interview with podcaster Mike Rowe this week. “My life is so weird.”
The comments come amid a national debate ahead of November’s midterm elections over the high prices of everything from groceries to housing.
Vance, 41, said his new way of life came with a new worry. “It can become the sort of thing that if you internalize it, you start to be an entitled a–hole,” he said.
Vance was raised by his grandparents and said his grandmother — whom he calls Mamaw — would want him not to “get too big for my britches.”
He also reflected on the experience of traveling in the vice-presidential motorcade, which he called a “ridiculous spectacle” and “the thing that money can’t buy.”
Vance recalled that he was once in a motorcade in Florida with billionaire Trump backer Elon Musk on the way to Mar-a-Lago. Traffic was totally shut down on the route to let the motorcade pass, Vance said.
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“And Elon’s like, ‘You know, I can buy a lot,’” Vance remembered. “‘But I can’t buy that.’”
Vance’s comments drew criticism from some Democrats as out of touch. “Hardworking Americans from coast to coast are struggling to put food on the table to feed their families,” wrote Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) on X with a link to Vance’s remarks about not having to shop or cook.
Priorities USA, a political action committee supporting Democratic candidates, recently mocked Vance over promises he made early last year that lower prices were ahead for consumers.
In the hour-long podcast interview, Vance also talked about the process of writing his new memoir, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.”
He credited his wife, Usha Vance, with sharpening his prose. “She’s a very sweet person but a very brutal editor,” Vance said. “She is one of the few people who can just tell me, ‘This sounds like garbage,’ and help me fix it.”
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