Vance's feelings for trump:
“America’s Hitler”
Vance sent a message to his law school roommate in which he wrote that he went “back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a-hole…or that he’s America’s Hitler,” according to a screenshot shared by the former roommate in 2022.
A villain and a douche
Vance liked a tweet featuring a photo of Trump and O.J. Simpson that read, “Here is an old picture of one of USA’s most hated, villainous, douchey celebs. Also in picture: OJ Simpson.”
“Unfit” to be president
Vance wrote: “Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”
A total fraud
Kentucky radio host Matt Jones told Vance: “I cannot stand Trump because I think he’s a fraud…I think he’s a total fraud that is exploiting these people.” Vance responded: “I do too…I don’t think he actually cares about folks.”
Stomach-churning, “noxious”
Vance said: “I think that I’m going to vote third party because I can’t stomach Trump. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.”
“Never Trump,” “never liked him”
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy. I never liked him,” Vance told Charlie Rose.
“Reprehensible”
Vance wrote on Twitter: “Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us.”
An “idiot”
“My God what an idiot,” Vance wrote on Twitter in reference to Trump.
“A moral disaster”
Vance sent a message to a friend from law school discussing his opposition to the American Health Care Act, the legislation Republicans want to replace Obamacare. Discussing a possible future career as a senator, Vance wrote: “Can you imagine running as an anti-AHCA populist who thinks Trump is a moral disaster. Where’s my constituency?”
Serial sexual assault
After the Access Hollywood tape came out, Vance liked a tweet that read, “Maybe the Central Park 5 could take out a full-page ad to condemn the coddling of thug real estate barons who commit serial sexual assault.”