Nadene Goldfoot
In meeting, Vance interrupted Zelensky and yelled that he should say THANK YOU !
What stands out I notice in reading about Vance are many facts, but one in example is that Vance is the third-youngest vice president in U.S. history, as well as the first millennial to hold the office. To my 90 year old mind, this is something that may have caused his uncalled-for-interruption in the peace meeting that took place with Trump and Zelensky that I watched today, Friday, February 28, 2025, on YouTube. Evidently he had a typical broken childhood full of problems with parents, something so many have lived through today.
I found this most interesting. Though educated as a lawyer, he got involved with book writing and movie-making:
In June 2016, Harper published Vance's book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The memoir recounts the Appalachian culture and socioeconomic problems of Vance's small-town upbringing. Hillbilly Elegy was on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and 2017. The Times listed it among "6 Books to Help Understand Trump's Win", and Vance was profiled in The Washington Post, which called him "the voice of the Rust Belt".
Hillbilly Elegy's success helped propel Vance into contact with social elites, and he began writing a column for The New York Times. Vance later said that his interactions with social elites from this time, particularly their perceived disdain for "the people he grew up with", helped shape his later views.
James David Vance (born James Donald Bowman;August 2, 1984) Senate Official Portrait. ONLY 40 years old
Vance has lots of appeal for people Trump loves. Trump's two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, advocated for their father to choose Vance. Several media and industry figures are said to have lobbied for Vance to be on the presidential ticket, including Elon Musk, David O. Sacks, Tucker Carlson, and Peter Thiel, who first introduced Trump to Vance in 2021 The Heritage Foundation, which drafted Project 2025, privately advocated for Vance to be Trump's vice-presidential pick.
In 2021 on Fox News he said, ""we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too." His thing evidently is to really say outlandish things!
Vance wrote in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, that he was raised in a low-income family by his single mother and grandmother. In 2013, Vance met Usha Chilukuri while both were students at Yale Law School. In 2014, they married in Kentucky, in an interfaith marriage ceremony, as she is Hindu and he is Christian. Their wedding included a Bible reading by Vance's "best friend", Jamil Jivani, and the bride and groom were blessed by a Hindu pandit.
He opposes continued American military aid to Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion and prefers a negotiated peace.
In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church in a ceremony at St. Gertrude Priory in Cincinnati, Ohio. He chose Augustine of Hippo as his confirmation saint. Vance said he converted because he "became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true [...] and Augustine gave me a way to understand Christian faith in a strongly intellectual way", further describing Catholic theology's alignment with his political views. Vance was influenced to convert to Catholicism by Peter Thiel ."
Politico said o Vance: KYIV — J.D. Vance has a lot to say about Ukraine, which is why Kyiv froze when Donald Trump chose the Ohio senator to be his running mate on Monday.
Just after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Vance, then a candidate for U.S. Senate, said: "I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another."
Starting from those first days of fighting, Vance has seized on Ukraine as one of his signature foreign policy issues. His isolationist position differentiates him from more conventional Republicans and also cements his ties with Trump's MAGA adherents.
MAGA movement, nativist political movement that emerged in the United States during the 2016 presidential campaign of its putative leader, Donald Trump. Its name is derived from Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan “Make America Great Again,” which became a rallying cry for many Trump supporters during his candidacy, his first term as president (2017–21), and beyond.
Resource:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/MAGA-movement
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