Asmongold TV - JD Vance on Trump and his "genius way of making decisions" | Asmongold

Episode Date: July 5, 2025

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I really think this guy is so good at doing interviews. And I talking to people, he's actually so insanely good at it. Mr. Vice President, great to see you. Good morning. Thank you. First of all, congratulations. All right, has it sunk in yet? Hillbilly L.O.G. Yep. Now the Vice President of the United States of America.

Yeah, it's kind of crazy. You know, it hasn't sunk in. And, you know, I joke that I took two wrong turns, and I ended up, you know, a hallway down from the Oval Office. And it's just an incredible thing. you know, the first time I'd have actually been to the Oval Office was with President Trump as his vice president last Tuesday. You'd never been to the Oval Office. Wow.

And, you know, he always talks about, you know, you have these executives, sworn heads of state. The Oval Office just has a particular power, and I certainly felt it. And it was just amazing to stand in that room. And I remember at the time thinking, I wish that I had something profound to say. And I just stood in there saying, wow, this is crazy. No, I had the same experience when I went in President of President. Bush was in office at the time. And I remember, I thought it was surreal. I was like, is that really him? Yeah. And it is a special place. And then, of course, Trump has his little red button, which

next to him, which is not the red button. Which is, he screwed with me about that, actually. Did he really? No, so we're just in mid-conversation. I think we were with Senator Thune and Speaker Johnson, and he has this sort of beautiful, ornate wooden box on his desk with a red button, and he presses it. And he just kind of looks over at me. And I'm like, sir, is that? Something bad just happened? And he's like, no, I just ordered a Diet Coke.

It's the Diet Coke red guy who comes running in. Then I'll ask you, would you like one? Yeah, exactly. That's a good idea. That's a really good idea. Yeah, if you just had a button to, yeah, that's great. I've known President Trump for over 30 years. Sure.

Had a close relationship with him in all those years. And he and I, when he was thinking about running, we had arguments for hours deep into the night. I said, I'm not voting for you if you're not a conservative. Vance's most normal guy there is. Now I understand why they tried to label him is weird. I feel like the weird label for J.D. Vance is probably the most effective attack they had. I think it was because it catered to the lowest common denominator of high school mean girl mentality. And that probably is how you activate a lot of people.

the most effective one they had? Who's they? Well, obviously, like, the whole Kamala Harris Democrat people, right? Obviously. I mean, who else would have a vested interest in him being called weird? You really are now getting to know him very well.

Sure. What have you learned about him? Well, it's interesting. One, I've learned that he has the most interesting decision-making process of any person I've ever met. And I think it's what makes him such an effective leader is that when he, actually is thinking about doing something. He doesn't just ask like, you know, his closest advisor

or some policy person. It's going to affect a business. He'll call the business as CEOs. He'll go and try to talk to the workers. He tries to take inputs from everywhere. And I think it's one of the reasons why he's so in tune with where the American people actually are. But it's also, I think, one of the geniuses of the way that he makes decisions is that he actually tries to talk to everybody. and that's something honestly, I could write a book just about the way that he gathers information from all sources. And it's very unusual. I mean, in Washington, most politicians, you know, if it's a national security issue, they'll talk to their national security person and maybe, you know, somebody else in their office. If it's a business issue, maybe they'll talk to his CEO.

The president talks to everybody, and that's a very, very profound thing about the way that he actually operates in Washington. I would describe it. I think that's probably why so many of the things that he says. like a lot of people say that they relate to Donald Trump and they like they like he's relatable to them for like whatever reason and or they just like him. I think that the reason why is because of that is because he talks to people a lot and he's charismatic and he understands like what I think that average people like kind of think even though he's clearly I mean this guy's clearly not very relatable to anybody. But like that's why people think that. I think his VP is glazing him. You think his vice president is saying good things about him?

I would have never guessed. I thought he was going to call him a fat orange retard. I think in many ways he's misunderstood as well, because I know the personal side of him and I know the business side of him. And as we've seen hundreds and hundreds of executive actions, and you've been here barely a little over a week now. Yeah. Well, speed of light. Speed of light. You know, we've, I think, accomplished honestly, more in eight days than the intelligence.

entire Biden administration accomplished in four years. And of course, the things that were accomplishing are actually good things and the things they were accomplishing. I mean, yeah, I don't know. I mean, they accomplished having two wars start. So it's not really entirely true. But that's a lot. But either way, in terms of positives, I don't know. I mean, it's very hard to say. But it's, it's been like a week. It's crazy. Like, I will say that it does feel like uh, like when Biden was president, it, as I said, man, it was like Rohan. When like King Theoden was like possessed by Sarmon, like everybody was fucking depressed. Like you couldn't really talk to them. It was weird, man.

They did nothing. Yeah. No, I'm like, I'm not crazy for saying this, right? Like it's, it's demoralizing. It's fucking depressing. Yeah, perfect down. Yeah, I'm serious. Everybody's in a bad mood. The president has incredible energy. I mean, this is something you hear other people say about him, and it's hard to really appreciate it until you're up close and personal. I don't know how much he sleeps or if he ever really sleeps. I mean, you'll get phone calls from him. I can answer that.

He doesn't sleep a lot. You'll get phone calls at one in the morning, and he'll just, you know, he'll talk about policy, and he'll talk about your family. And he just, there's something incredibly energetic about him, but you sort of need that, actually. the federal government has become so sprawling and the bureaucracy is so unresponsive to what the president actually wants to do that you kind of need somebody in there who's constantly on.

It's all gas, no breaks. That's certainly what we've seen in the last, you know, eight days. I think that's what we'll see for the next four years. Yeah, it was kind of shocking. Like, whenever he was just sitting there, signing the orders and then answering questions from the press with no, like, script or anything,

like, I was like, damn. Like, is it just the way it's going to be? Yeah, that was awesome. When you look at, for example, the two biggest issues in this campaign... It's not shocking. It happens every presidency. Well, it happens almost every presidency. ...and the economy. Sure.

Yeah. Because that's impacting the people in Ohio. Of course. Right? That's impacting their life hard. And a lot of Americans... Absolutely right. I've been really hurt.

There was a study that came out, like, 56% of Americans can't... withstand a $1,000 emergency. Sure. You know, it would be devastating for them. That scares me. I've been there. I've lived there. I know you've been there.

Of course. Not fun. Not where you want to be. Not fun at all. And when I think of, you know, the issue of immigration in particular, I'm looking at, we have known terrorists in this country. Yes, we do. We have known cartel members, known.

Are you so poor? Yeah, that's the big problem is people don't have any fucking money. that's the main issue that people have it's really not trans or immigrants or some shit it's really people don't have any fucking money and like you can say that maybe immigrants are taking jobs and you know like yeah for sure

it's a factor but I think a bigger factor is like companies like not paying taxes really rich people not paying enough taxes and wasted money on bullshit that's really where it's coming from I would say gang members

We have known murder, rapists. And I'm watching the reaction of the left and the left-wing media and the Democrats. And, you know, we're back to Nazi fascists, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. And I'm like, what part of these other people are you missing? No, it's totally crazy, Sean. And if you look, you know, there was a guy who went viral a few days ago that we deported 17 violent criminal convictions. and was actually saying, the guy from Haiti, the guy from Haiti, he was saying, I hate Trump, I love Biden because Biden. I bet he did.

Yeah. Wanted me to stay in this country. There are a better endorsement of Donald J. Trump that a violent criminal who shouldn't be in this country doesn't like him because Donald Trump is actually enforcing the immigration laws of this country. And it's everywhere, Sean. It affects everybody from all walks of life. It's the drug. I wonder why. Yeah.

It's the crime. It's the fact that if you live along the southern. border, you're affected by this cartel activity. I mean, we've seen, Sean, just in the last couple of days, multiple cartel members have fired at our own border patrol. And you ask yourself, why wasn't that happening a couple of years ago? Because they weren't empowered to do their job. The border has become so lawless that we're actually engaging in military-style engagements

just to regain control of our southern border. And thank God we're actually doing it this time, because if we had another four years of of Biden and the Democrats' wide open southern border, it would permanently and I think irreparably transform this country. So yeah, we're doing immigration enforcement in a big way. We're also doing things to lower the cost of energy because of course... I think that's one of the main things a lot of people want to see. Yeah, definitely.

And were there no illegals during Trump's first term? There were. But, you know, obviously like not as much... Like, I will say that this, like, so Trump, this is... So this second term... term was what I think everybody hoped for with his first term. Like they thought this is what was going to happen in 2016. Am I right about that?

A weekend, yeah, because like how many of you guys felt the same way? Yeah, yeah, definitely. It's new game plus. Yeah, exactly. We can lower the cost of energy. We're going to make food and housing, groceries, everything else more affordable for American citizens. And that really is, you're exactly right.

That is the two prongs of the Trump agenda. We want to create more prosperity, and we want to create more security. And we're doing a lot. We're going to do a lot more. I want to ask about the economy in a second, but we saw Tom Homan. I mean, I don't think there's anyone more. Talk about a force of nature. I've tried to make them smile.

I've had no luck. If you pull that off, that would be a miracle. He smiled one time when he's talking about getting rid of people. Yeah. Yeah, no, yeah, there was one time. I've known him a long time. I've a great admiration for him. Me too.

And almost 10,000 deportations and some of the toughest criminals. Christy Noem, out on that ice raid in New York yesterday. She was on TV with us last night. Amazing. 10,000 in a week. The president is looking for, what, 1,800 a day? That's right. And, you know, that's a pretty ambitious goal.

It's ambitious, but you need a leader who sets ambitious goals and actually holds people to meeting those goals. If you think we've got 20 plus million illegal aliens in this country, we have got to get these people out of our country and regain control of our own border. And it's not just the people that were deporting. If you look at the number of illegal entries on January the 19th, the last day of the Democrats administration, I believe the number was north of 1,300 illegal entries.

This is what I think is going to happen. I think they're going to get rid of like probably 3, 4, 5 million of them. Then that's going to be pretty much problem solved. Like, that's probably what's. going to happen. Because you get rid of like the like the worst 20, 30% of them. The rest of them like yeah, it's not good for sure. But like at that point they're basically going to probably slow down a lot. It's not going to be as important. I think like everybody gets behind like arresting some like convicted 17 times. We're talking about right. Get out of here. But you know, you're talking about like a,

you know, like removing people that are like grandma. maas, et cetera. You know, like, again, I think they, they should deport everybody, but the people that they should do at last two are those, right? And I could even, I could even see, like, if somebody's over a certain age, they don't get deported, right? Like, if you're over 70, it's like, okay, well, you know, fuck it, you got me, right? I could see something like that, not totally unreasonable. But of course, yeah, yeah, sure, right? And that's what I think is going to happen. Yeah, 90-year-old illegal okay? Yeah, I mean, you're going to deport some 90-year-old person.

What? Why? What is this, right? I mean, like, that's just, that's my opinion. Five days later, we had already cut that by more than 60 percent, and I guarantee we're going to cut it even further. Yeah. Policy matters. Elections have consequences, and President Trump ran explicitly on regaining control of the border, and re-delivering American prosperity. That's exactly what we're doing.

And it is funny, Sean, to hear the media and the Democrats howl about this and say, well, you know, this is bad, this is terrible. You know, this is, like you said, fascist, Nazi, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The president promised the American people he was going to do this. Yeah, that's the thing is people get mad about the deportations, but that's literally what a lot of people voted for, and it's what the majority of the public wants. Most people want mass deportations.

And so if you think about that, how many people do you think want deportations of anybody who was convicted of a crime? Probably like 95%. Right. So, I mean, like you can say that like, oh, yeah, it's like Nazis doing this. Yeah, okay, right? Well, I guess there's a whole lot of Nazis. Leave him a mandate. So now he's doing it.

That's how democratic politics in this country works and thank God for that. If I was in your position or President Trump's position, and I never will be. Let's be clear. But if I was, I think what would keep me up at night is the fact that we have known terrorists in the country and we have murders in the country and rapists and violent criminals, cartels and gang members as I said. I'm worried about an attack on the homeland, Mr. Vice President. How worried are you? Well, look, I am worried, Sean, because we were given a country with hundreds, maybe thousands, maybe more of known terrorists that are in the United States of America, thanks to the open borders of the last

a minute. Immigrants of the lowest crime at any demographic? Yeah, I mean, like, I think that this is the way that a lot of people see it. And it's also the way that I see it is that the lowest crime rate is still an unforced error, where the amount of crime for that should be zero because it shouldn't have happened in the first place. So I don't think immigrants are out there committing crime and they're awful. and like these are super dangerous people, etc.

But this is an unforced error. Like it shouldn't be happening in the first place. It shouldn't be happening at all. So it's our job to worry about it so that hopefully we can prevent that attack. So it's something that does keep us up at night. It's something that the government is working on very... It says that's a lie per capita. What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter whether it's a lie or not.

It doesn't change the viewpoint that I have. And I think that a lot... How many people, like what I just said, that's how you think? Like, it doesn't matter to you, like, whether they commit more or less crime. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

There we go. There we go. All right. So, it's so easy. Impressively, we've got great intelligence services. We've got great border enforcement. We're trying to identify the bad guys and get them out of our country. Because, look, what you don't want to have happen, Sean, is, let's say we take a foreign policy action that some foreign terrorist organization doesn't like.

Well, now these guys, they're not in Syria or some foreign country. They're in our backyards. They're in our cities. We have to get them out to make the homeland safer, but also to empower the president to do the things that he needs to do when it comes to national security. So I can't imagine what the logic is in allowing known terrorists to stay in the country. That's crazy.

And, yeah, I don't know what to say. Illegal immigrants have a 100% crime, right? I mean, can we just be honest, though, at drawing a distinction between illegal, immigrants that come to the country and commit criminal offenses and ones that don't, and the fact that that's a very big difference. To me, I think that's a very big difference. And I understand that people don't want to make that difference because they think that that somehow creates an acceptable group of them. But I think that logically it is a difference. And I think that anybody would observe that difference if they went about solving this problem, where if you were going to

solve this problem, you would probably go after the people that would be the most problematic first, which implies that there is a tier system of who is more and less dangerous and more and less problematic, right? And detrimental. So I think that we all, we all know this. Now, it's all on a spectrum of not good, for sure. But one of them is like bad. And the other one is like insanely fucking bad. I think that's just reasonable. It does worry me. But we also have a government. that's actually tackling this issue. It's getting better every single day. How do we find them?

I mean, you have known terrorists, but you don't know where they are. Known cartel members, but you don't know where they are. Well, it's crazy, Sean, sometimes you're right. We don't know where they are. Sometimes we actually do. And that's one of the craziest things of the last week, just for me, you ask what is shocking to me,

it's that many of these violent criminals, we knew their addresses, we knew their names, we just needed to send somebody to go to their house and get them out of the house. the country. That really should shock the American people. We've known where they are. Exactly. And we know they've had terror ties? We've known at least that they had violent criminal backgrounds and we haven't done anything until about eight days ago when Donald Trump became the President of the United States again. This is such an unforced error. Like it is. This is crazy.

I'm just a sort of mentality for all things. There are errors like you said. Yeah, no doubt. and we're wasting our time fighting poor immigrants and said the billionaires are sucking us dry. I understand that you don't like billionaires and you think that corporate America. How about this? How about the billionaires that run the companies that are invested and vested in the fact that they continue having this cheap labor source of these illegal immigrants that they can take advantage of? Because I agree with you. I think that you're right. the people that own these companies, a lot of times that are employing these people that are, you know, like illegal, they're fucking, like, they're rich. They're massively fucking rich.

You can do both. Yeah, exactly. And so the people that are running the companies are like that, too. I don't think that, I don't think anybody's in disagreement that that's also a problem too. It should shock the conscience of the American people. One of the things you heard on the campaign trail, One of the criticisms of me and of the president was, well, yes, we have 20 million illegal aliens. We have, you know, close to a million violent. Somebody, he says again, I'll respond to another one. I don't care about billionaires making money from business. It's when they have the power to lobby policies.

And how do they get the power? Let's move on. Well, yes, we have 20 million illegal aliens. We have, you know, close to a million violent criminal illegal aliens. And we don't know where they are. It turns out we actually do know. where a lot of them are. We just haven't had immigration enforcement,

and that's what's changed so radically. That actually gives me hope that we can protect the homeland, because I would imagine if you're a terrorist and you're in our country, you're not here to pursue a better life for you and your children. You're here to plot, plan, scheme the next attack on our homeland, and I live through 9-11. I don't want to live through that again. I don't want to lose 2,977 Americans again.

Yep. Hey, Sean Hannity here. There it is. I think that's it. From you backing the party that increases taxes on the bottom half of the country, I'm not backing the party. I didn't vote for Trump. If I say that I like what Trump is doing with immigration,

that doesn't mean that I support billionaires. That's not the way the world works. I understand that whenever you create this weird abstraction, that's the only two options in your mind. But no, that's not how it works. Who'd you vote for? I didn't vote for anybody. I'm sorry.

Yep. I try to support policies and ideas rather than people. And so in an individual sense, I support this. Doesn't mean I support everything. And yeah, if people don't understand, you can only do so much of the time. Are you happy with what you got? Yeah, sure. You've influenced some more people to vote for Trump for the Kuala.

I never said you voted for anything. Well, if the way that I covered things makes you unhappy, then you should cover it in a way that you think is more. favorable. I'm covering things in a ways that I think is authentic and accurate. And so if you don't think that it's accurate and you don't think that the way that I see it is true, then you have every right to respond and then make your own videos and talk about it in your own perspective. But the reality is that I think the reason why people are talking about it. And also, like, yeah, sure, I've been more positive towards Trump because I was happy with what he was going to do.

yeah, sure, it's that simple. But it doesn't mean that everybody else has to do what I say. And also, like, if I wanted to influence people to vote for, you know, Vermin Supreme, I don't think that I would really shift the vote that much. So it's very easy to go and blame a content creator for talking about things. But what you should really be doing is asking yourself, why are people listening? Why are people listening to this messaging? And, like, for example, I think that the Luigi,

situation is like a really good example of that because it's very like it's obviously a very bad thing to go and shoot people that you don't like or that you think are doing something wrong uh you know just because like oh you're running this company uh you know you're an asshole i'm gonna shoot you because you're an asshole right but why did so many people support luigi why is it there's a good reason for that there's a really good fucking reason for that and although i don't support killing people i so like i I'll tell you this. I read a lot of what Luigi said. And outside of shooting anybody, I don't think he was wrong. I think he was right about everything. That's the way I think. I don't think he should have shot somebody. Yeah, murdering somebody is the only thing that most people disagreed with Luigi on.

Everything else he said, I think people were totally on board with. Dress, so thanks for the 10 subs. I appreciate it. And, yeah, you almost never cover anything negative about Trump in your Twitter group. just reinforces your feeds. So earlier today, I talked a little bit about the plane crash, and I said that Trump made a mistake, and it was stupid for him to blame it on DEI and to frame it around DEI. So maybe you weren't there at the beginning of the stream, because, like, I mean, obviously

I've been live for like a few hours now, right? And so, like, people are going to come in and out. But that's just one example, right? And other examples, I'm sure will come out, and that's what will happen to. Ben, at Bozo, yeah, yeah. And so I try to look at individual circumstances and make my best decision based off of those circumstances. And yeah, it's really just that simple. DEI is the reason, though.

I don't think that's fair to say yet. But anyway, also the pardons you disagree with? Yes, I think that the pardons were an unforced error. Absolutely. Like, you didn't need to do that. What's your take on January 6th? Yeah. So why are you trying to justify your position?

Well, I mean, I think that having, like, a lot of people accuse me of these kinds of things. And so I think that when I have the opportunity to talk about it kind of open-endedly, then it's not really a bad thing to do that. I don't think that's really a bad thing to do at all. Obviously, not all the time, but sometimes I'll listen to it and I'll explain it. And, you know, there it is. And so anyway, what I was saying is that actually, what was I saying? Oh yeah, the January 6th sausages. That's right. Yes. I do not support releasing any of them that stole property violated or, sorry, that stole property or hit a police officer or was violent towards a police officer.

I do support releasing all the ones that just simply walked into the Capitol building. So I think that if you were violent, you stole or damaged property. I don't think that you should have been pardoned. And if you didn't do any of those things, I think you should have been pardoned. That's the reason. that that's my perspective and i think that also like there could be some gray areas in there but overall i don't think that we should and this is this is the way i see it i don't think that we should express any tolerance for people that are violent and aggressive

towards law enforcement period police officers are not target dummies they're not punching bags i don't think they should be treated that way four to five years isn't a breaking in, like let's say you're stealing something directly out of the Capitol building. No, I think 10. Fuck you. Fuck you. You're going to do that. You're going to fuck up.

This is our federal fucking building. You're going to break into the fucking building. You're going to steal shit out of it. Suck a fucking dick. Get the fuck out of your. And it's the same thing I've said with other things, too. Like, we are way too soft on people that are bad actors. These are people that are bad actors.

they're stealing shit, they're destroying property, and they're hurting police officers. Why the fuck are we even giving them even the slightest amount of leniency? I'm sorry. No, it's ridiculous. And I get, look, look, I get, people might think that I'm a bit too harsh. And hey, I might be a bit too harsh. But that's what I think. You ask me what I think?

That's what I think. so yeah Bad actors Destroy Movie M's 3 January 6 sympathizers are are weird well that's just

that's my viewpoint right you don't sentence people because of a political agenda walking out of the building with something

isn't a political agenda it's theft it's literally that simple do you have the same energy for BLM riots and murderers do I have the same energy

for BLM riots and murderers abs of fucking lootly 100 percent.