May 20, 2026
JD Vance LOSES IT When Reporter Won't Back Down
Vice President JD Vance loses it on a reporter during press briefing when the reporter corners him on claims that Donald Trump is using the Oval Office to enrich himself through stock trades Vance has stood against. John Iadarola and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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The president doesn't sit at the Oval Office
on his computer on his like Robin Hood account
buying and selling stocks. That's absurd. He
has independent wealth advisors who manage
his money. He is a wealthy person. He has had
success in business. He's not making these
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stock trades himself. Yeah, Trump does have
other people who do his trading for them and
we could have had a system where they couldn't
communicate by law. It would be a blind trust.
Remember? Vance, wanted to do that. Trump didn't
wanna do that. Why was it so important to him
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that he not do that? And why is it that his
independent, even though there's nothing making
it independent, he could talk on the phone for
eight hours a day if he wanted to with his
wealth managers or whatever. How is it that
they seem to always buy and sell stocks at
the exact time that Donald Trump's little announcements
and tweets and business deals with China. benefit
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those very corporations. It's interesting, there
must be some sort of psychic link between Donald
Trump and his independent wealth manager and
all that. But Vance is trying to keep it
together right there, having to apologize for
the exact sort of massive corruption that he
at one point as a Senate candidate spoke out
against. But he is actually going to be set
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off by a question, take a look. Americans,
according to recent polling, increasingly
describing the president as corrupt. And
Trading stocks- This is a hell of a question.
Thank you, sir. Trading individual stocks is
something that you said that public officials
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should not be able to do when you ran for Senate
all those years ago. And yet the President,
who arguably has access to more non-public information
than your average Senator, is not only buying
and selling individual stocks either through
his trust. How can you and your administration
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argue to Americans that you're cleaning up
corruption, you're preventing fraud, you're
fighting the sorts of things that harm people
and people's financial situations, when the
president seems to be talking up stocks that
he owns, selling them and enriching himself?
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Okay, so here, let me answer your question here.
That was a doozy. Yeah, it was a doozy because
it's true and it's accurate. And it seems really
goddamn ridiculous that you're grinning the
whole time. When he points out you used to
specifically say no public officials should
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be trading individual stocks and his advances
responses. Yeah, I know I like said that
but but now I like my job. I want to like his
I can't say not to do that because then he'll
get rid of me and I don't get to be president.
You do this like you think because I held
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a position. What do you think is on my back,
a spine? A doozy. Yeah, it was a long question.
Could have been briefer, kind of important.
Donald Trump has done thousands of stock trades,
it's transparent corruption. So JD Vance is
eventually going to answer the question kind
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of, but he is far more interested in berating
the press for daring to express how corrupt
the American people think that Donald Trump
is. Take a look. There are different ways to
ask a question. Okay, you could just ask a question
and try to get your answer. Or you could do
like a speech where you say, know, Mr. Vice
President, you're a terrible human being and
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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? Come on,
man. 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,
okay? Number one. The president doesn't sit
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at the Oval Office on his computer on his like
Robin Hood account buying and selling stocks.
That's absurd. He has independent wealth advisors
who manage his money. He is a wealthy person.
He has had success in business. He's not making
these stock trades himself. And your question
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imputes that. sort of, doesn't say it exactly,
but a reasonable person listening to that
question would assume the president is sitting
around and doing that. He's not. Second of
all. You're right. I'm a big fan of banning
members of Congress from trading stocks. So
is the President of the United States. Yeah,
so that's ironic. Let's uh check the claim
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actually that Donald Trump wants to ban the
trading of stocks. What's interesting is that
there is a grain of truth kind of like JD Vance
was attacking the media for. Yeah, no, Donald
Trump is fine with banning members of Congress
from trading stocks. Donald Trump is not a
fan of banning Donald Trump from trading stocks.
Do you see JD Vance, kind of the difference
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between those two things? Him having a standard
for a different person and a standard for himself.
Hey, he's actually doubled his standards there.
Isn't that interesting? Isn't that noteworthy?
By the way, your big whiny thing of, he's
not doing it on his own Robin Hood account,
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has a different person do it. So let's be clear.
When you were campaigning for Senate and you
were posturing as a person, it was gonna come
in and clear out the corruption and you were
implying elected officials are getting away
with corrupt acts by trading stocks. All you
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were asking for was that they have a broker.
You're pretending that you would have been
satisfied if they didn't do the stock themselves.
I have a guy. That's all you were asking for.
This is the tiniest little impotent baby boy,
JD Vance. You have no spine, you have no balls.
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You used to posture as if you were anti-corrupt.
Now you are the errand boy for the most corrupt
president in American history. That's why you're
squirming so much. That's why you're so uncomfortable.
Not because this question was too long, but
because you look absolutely goddamn ridiculous
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and you're worried about it dragging you down
when you try to run for president. And let's
be clear, I don't care if he's doing his own
trading on Robin Hood or whatever. He did at
least $220 million in Q1 in trades. in some
of the companies that had the most government
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business before them. Netflix, obviously their
massive merger conversations, Comcast and Warner
Brothers and Paramount, all of those. That isn't
just going on around Donald Trump. He is calling
the shots on whether they can do these mergers.
Who ends up winning? He's buying the stocks
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right there. By the way, in Q1 of this year,
He traded more stocks than Congress did in
2025. That is the scale, the monumental Titanic
scale of the corruption. And JD Vance is like,
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he didn't press the button on fidelity. That
is not what the American people are concerned
about. And you can brush aside the polls, we
see them as corrupt, and we see you defending
them. And the same way that you defend the cover
up into the sex trafficking, you're defending
the corruption. Sharon, I apologize, what do
you think? No, you keep going and let's not
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forget that Donald Trump doesn't need a guy
to then talk about Dell after he's made trades
and done a lot of things with Dell and these
other companies. Because you don't need to
be an investigative journalist to see what he's
up to on truth social and wherever else he
blabs or wherever else he speaks to try to manipulate
things. JD Vance made me physically ill. I
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don't know why I did this to myself, but I watched
it live. And you had reporters like Jonathan
Karl asking valid questions. But about 60 %
of the room now is filled with podcasters asking
ridiculous questions about why Pete Davidson
was joking about Charlie Kirk's death. That
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Kevin Hart's roast and reading off of their
stupid little iPhones. And he was acting like
a rock star trying to. charm everyone because
he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room
with his Ivy League education. And right now,
maybe we can't touch him and maybe we can't
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touch Trump, but it's a warning. I felt like
I was watching the devil himself in some custom
suit there, just kind of manipulating things
like a conductor. It's sickening. Yeah, this
is a crazy thing to say. But I kinda hate him
even more than- Trump for some reason? I don't
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know, like that's wrong. I don't actually mean
that. But does anyone else kind of feel like
that there's almost something more disgusting
about JD Vance? I don't know, like in a country
where we've been plagued by all of these pathetic
little men rushing, lining up, climbing over
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each other to suckle at Donald Trump. JD Vance
is the chief sucker. And that's maybe the
thing that just like as an actual man. It just...
It just gives me like cosmic level itch.
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