Vice President JD Vance unloaded on a reporter at Tuesday’s White House press briefing for delivering a “speech masquerading as a question” about President Donald Trump‘s stock portfolio.
Vance was asked by Andrew Feinberg, the Independent’s White House correspondent, about reports that stocks in the president’s portfolio were often mentioned at White House press events and on social media. Feinberg, however, spent more than two minutes weaving in and out of anecdotes about Vance’s prior support for a congressional stock ban when asking the question.
“That was a doozy,” Vance responded. “Before I answer your question, I want to just observe there are different ways to ask a question. You can just ask a question, try and get your answer, or you could do, like, a speech where you say, you know, ‘Mr. Vice President, every — you’re a terrible human being, and so is the president, so is the entire Cabinet, and then I’m like, ‘What’s your question? and then your question is, ‘How dare you!'”
Vance called out Feinberg, who frequently clashed with White House staff during Trump’s first term, for what he saw as journalistic bias.
“Have a little bit of objectivity in the way that you ask these questions, because there were a lot of things in that speech masquerading as a question that didn’t actually get asked,” the vice president added.
