If There’s a Terrible Tragedy’: JD Vance Says he’s Ready for Presidency … in 2025
By CHARLIE SPIERING, US POLITICAL REPORTER
Vice President JD Vance said he’s ready to be president should the worst happen to President Donald Trump, but reassured the public that the president was in good health.
‘Yes, terrible tragedies happen,’ Vance said in an interview with USA TODAY, when asked if he was ready to serve as president. ‘But I feel very confident the president of the United States is in good shape, is going to serve out the remainder of his term and do great things for the American people.
As a candidate in 2024, Trump faced an unprecedented two assassination attempts, but Secret Service has dramatically ramped up security since he took office in January.
As one of the youngest vice presidents in modern history, Vance turned 41 earlier this month.
But he said he felt had learned a lot about the presidency in his first seven months on the job.
‘If, God forbid, there’s a terrible tragedy, I can’t think of better on-the-job training than what I’ve gotten over the last 200 days,’ he added.
President Trump is 79-years-old and will be 82 in his last year as president.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed in July that the president was suffering from ‘chronic venous insufficiency,’ that was causing ‘mild swelling’ in his lower legs.
Vice President JD Vance walks to the West Wing of the White House
Vice President JD Vance watches President Donald Trump as he speaks to the press
The president’s physician revealed in an memo that his condition was ‘a benign and common condition’ in elderly people but that there was no evidence of any serious arterial disease.
Trump also has bruising on the back of his hand, his physician revealed, that was a result of ‘irritation from frequent handshaking and use of aspirin ‘as part of a standard cardiovascular prevention’ treatment.
Vance said that Trump demonstrated every day that the had ‘incredible good energy’ and ‘good health.’
U.S. President Donald Trump walks towards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House
A mark on a hand of U.S. President Donald Trump is seen during a meeting at the White House
‘While most of the people that work around the president of the United States are younger than he is, I think that we find that he actually is the last person to go to sleep he’s the last person making phone calls at night, and he’s the first person that wakes up and the first one making phone calls in the morning,’ he said.
Vance chuckled when he was asked about what his wife Usha thought about running in 2028.
‘I think she thinks what I think, which is lets focus on the job we have right now, lets do as good a job as possible, and if that door opens later on, we’ll figure it out then,’ he said.
Original source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15044861/If-theres-terrible-tragedy-JD-Vance-says-hes-ready-presidency-2025.html