WATCH: Hot Mic Captures JD Vance’s Dread Before Marathon Trump Speech
Even the vice president wasn’t looking forward to the length of Donald Trump’s never-ending speech on Wednesday.
A hot mic captured JD Vance telling House Speaker Mike Johnson he did not know how he managed to “do this” for the entirety of the president’s marathon address to Congress on Tuesday night. Vance first says “I have to be honest with you” before whispering something in Johnson’s ear that the mic did not pick up. Vance then says, “By the way, I think the speech is going to be great, but I don’t know how you do this for 90 minutes.” Johnson responded it was harder under Joe Biden because his final State of the Union address was, according to him, more akin to “a stupid campaign speech.” Johnson pushed the microphone on the dais down midway through his response to Vance, perhaps aware their conversation was being picked up. Donald Trump went on to insult, ramble, and rage for 99 minutes shortly after that chat, making his tirade the longest address to Congress by a president in history—beating Bill Clinton’s 2000 speech by an entire ten minutes.
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