{"id":2614664,"date":"2026-06-16T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-changing-his-tune-on-trump-was-a-sign-of-humility\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:44:23","slug":"vance-says-changing-his-tune-on-trump-was-a-sign-of-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-changing-his-tune-on-trump-was-a-sign-of-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says changing his tune on Trump was a sign of &#8216;humility&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-says-changing-his-tune-on-trump-was-a-sign-of-humility%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2614664&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President JD Vance discussed his changing views on Donald Trump during his first ABC interview, attributing his previous criticism to a sense of humility. He acknowledged that he was wrong to doubt Trump&#8217;s economic policies, recognizing trump&#8217;s accomplished presidency and his own support for him. Vance also clarified misconceptions about Trump&#8217;s statements on Mexico and clarified that he <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >believed media reports<\/a> about his role in the Epstein case might be exaggerated or false, emphasizing the importance of verifying details. The interview touched on Vance&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-geraldo-gushes-approval-for-trump-his-peace-agenda-and-how-successful-hes-been\/\" title=\"Watch: Geraldo Gushes Approval for Trump, His Peace Agenda, and How Successful He&#039;s Been\">past harsh criticisms<\/a> of Trump, including calling him an &#8220;idiot&#8221; and comparing him to Hitler, but he now considers Trump a successful leader.Vance highlighted the need for transparency regarding Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s files and defended Trump&#8217;s actions against Epstein, countering claims that the White house was not committed to openness. Throughout, vance promoted a message of humility, taking responsibility for past misjudgments and emphasizing the complexity of political and personal beliefs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"7658\">JD Vance<\/a> insisted his evolving views on President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> over the past decade were a sign of \u201chumility\u201d during his first interview with ABC\u2019s <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/the-view\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"569\">The View<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance spoke with the show\u2019s co-hosts on Tuesday morning to promote his newly released book <em>Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith<\/em>, but was grilled on a host of unrelated issues, including comments he made about Trump when he was first running for president in 2016.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4610539\/kristi-noem-denies-congress-testimony-dhs-head-ouster\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                   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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell, Joy, a little humility, actually,\u201d Vance answered. \u201cI think that when you make predictions, and those predictions turn out to be false, you got to ask yourself, \u2018What made me wrong about that?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vice president said he was wrong to argue that Trump\u2019s economic policies during his first administration would not lead to wage growth and that factory jobs would not return.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, there\u2019s a certain point where you say, you know, I made predictions about this, I ended up being wrong,\u201d said Vance. \u201cAnd in politics, and anything, I think it\u2019s important to say, \u2018You know what, I got some things wrong,\u2019 and I was wrong about him. He was a very successful president. It\u2019s one of the reasons why I\u2019ve been so supportive of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another host, Sara Haines, bluntly asked Vance, \u201cWhat are you willing to excuse in the name of power?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would say fundamentally that one of the things I underappreciated about Donald Trump is that so many of the things that people said about him weren\u2019t actually true,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance claimed that he had been misled to believe that Trump said that \u201call Mexicans were rapists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe never said that,\u201d Vance continued. \u201cWhat he said, what he said is that certain South American countries, Central American countries, were releasing criminals into our country, including Mexico. By the way, that was objectively true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early on, Vance is reported as having called Trump an \u201cidiot\u201d and, at one point, compared him to Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere in the interview, <em>The View<\/em> hosts questioned Vance extensively about the Epstein files, which he reportedly pushed the White House to release. But Vance warned the audience not to believe certain media reports about his role in the administration as it related to the files.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell, I\u2019d say, first of all, don\u2019t believe everything that you read in any newspaper, whether it\u2019s a right-leaning paper or a left-leaning paper,\u201d Vance said, referring to a <em>New York Times<\/em> story in which it was reported that chief of staff Susie Wiles believed Vance was a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/10\/magazine\/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html\">conspiracy theorist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are things that are true, things that are false, and things that are totally missing context,\u201d he continued. \u201cNo. 1, I am frankly kind of a conspiracy theorist on the Epstein stuff. So that\u2019s one of the things that\u2019s true, is that some people called me a conspiracy theorist on the Epstein stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think that it\u2019s crazy that you had this guy who was clearly a sex predator who was hanging out with a lot of very wealthy and powerful people, like that really bothered me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vance also insisted he was for full transparency on the issue as Trump discouraged lawmakers from voting for the release of the Epstein files earlier this year. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-trolls-biden-and-democrats-in-cross-country-victory-lap-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump trolls Biden and Democrats in cross-country victory lap - Washington Examiner\">president eventually changed<\/a> his view and supported the legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4610675\/ufc-attack-dangers-political-rhetoric-jd-vance\/\">VANCE: FOILED UFC 250 ATTACK SHOWS DANGERS OF ESCALATING POLITICAL RHETORIC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat I disagree with is the idea that the White House wasn\u2019t committed to full transparency,\u201d said Vance, before ribbing the hosts about his defense of Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSorry, Joy, I do have to defend my boss,\u201d he said. \u201cI know you guys don\u2019t always appreciate this, but you know one of the things you see in the Epstein emails is that Jeffrey Epstein hated Donald Trump, and that Donald Trump literally reported Jeffrey Epstein to the police.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance: My views on Trump show humility, I was wrong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2614665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26131727647040.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5894,3634,15469],"class_list":["post-2614664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-vance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26131727647040.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614668,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614664\/revisions\/2614668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}