Vice President JD Vance insisted his evolving views on President Donald Trump over the past decade were a sign of “humility” during his first interview with ABC’s The View.Vance spoke with the show’s co-hosts on Tuesday morning to promote his newly released book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, but was grilled on a host of unrelated issues, including comments he made about Trump when he was first running for president in 2016.“It’s been well covered that I was a critic of Donald Trump back in 2015 and 2016,” said Vance. “Now, obviously, I’m sitting here as the vice president of the United States in the Trump administration.”
Joy Behar, one of the hosts, interrupted Vance to ask: “So, what happened?”
“Well, Joy, a little humility, actually,” Vance answered. “I think that when you make predictions, and those predictions turn out to be false, you got to ask yourself, ‘What made me wrong about that?'”
The vice president said he was wrong to argue that Trump’s economic policies during his first administration would not lead to wage growth and that factory jobs would not return.
“So, there’s a certain point where you say, you know, I made predictions about this, I ended up being wrong,” said Vance. “And in politics, and anything, I think it’s important to say, ‘You know what, I got some things wrong,’ and I was wrong about him. He was a very successful president. It’s one of the reasons why I’ve been so supportive of him.”
