Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
House Speaker Mike Johnson channeled his inner dad energy as he excitedly taped the vice president JD VanceFor the first time in the Oval Office. The speaker not only celebrated the moment, but pointed to Vance’s background, saying his story is one that could happen “only in America.”
“When we met yesterday at the White House, JD Vance mentioned to us that he had never visited the Oval Office before. I told him and President Trump that I had to capture the moment on video,” Johnson wrote in a publication to X. “Only in America can a young worker from Appalachia rise from humble circumstances to enter the Oval for the first time as VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. What a country!”
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS MEET WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP, VP VANCE TO ADVANCE AGENDA
Vice President JD Vance, President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speak during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in Emancipation Hall on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. (Alexander Drago/Pool via Reuters)
Vance’s background played a prominent role in the campaign, as then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., joked that no one from his small town went to Yale , where Vance received his law degree.
“Now, I grew up in Butte, Nebraska, a town of 400. I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale,” Walz said during his remarks at the Democratic National Convention.
The Trump campaign was quick to call out Walz’s comments on social media, calling it a “weird turn.”
Vice President JD Vance is sworn in as his wife Usha Vance looks on during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)
WHO IS TRUMP’S PARTNER, JD VANCE?
Before being chosen as President Donald Trump’s running mate, Vance served as a senator from Ohio after winning the seat in 2022. However, the current vice president entered the public spotlight in 2016 when he posted his book”Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis.” In the book, he details his challenging upbringing in Middletown, Ohio.
Surrounded by poverty and struggling with his mother’s drug addiction, Vance fought his way to a change.
In 2020, years after the memoir was published, it was turned into a Netflix movie, directed by Ron Howard and starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams. “Hillbilly Elegy” faced fierce criticism, which both Close and Adams rejected. Recently, while on “The View,” Close praised the vice president’s “very generous family.”
Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump look on during a rally on Inauguration Day. (Reuters/Mike Segar)
Vance’s mother, Beverly Aikins, has been sober for a decade. Aikins briefly addressed the crowd at the inaugural Ohio Ball, which was held in Washington, DC, on Sunday night. He informed the crowd that today marked his official 10th year of sobriety and that the following day was his birthday, in addition to his son’s inauguration, Cincinnati.com reported.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Vance returned to his hometown for a rally held at Middletown High School, from which he graduated in 2003. He told the crowd that the town was “so good to me” and that he was “proud” to be of Middletown.
