
JD Vance Is the Loyal Convert in Chief
Jake Lahut
created: June 27, 2025, 10 a.m. | updated: June 28, 2025, 1:22 a.m.
Vice President JD Vance is on top of the world.
Once a critic of President Donald Trump and now his right-hand man, Vance is everywhere—with full MAGA backing.
The vice president has a much closer relationship with these new players in the GOP than the president does, Trumpworld sources inside and around the administration tell WIRED.
To use a venture capital metaphor, though, Vance has only just progressed from his pre-seed to seed funding.
“Practically everyone in his cabinet is a convert,” this Trumpworld strategist tells me.
15 hours, 23 minutes ago: WIRED