The Adam Mockler Show - JD Vance Crumbles As Fox Host Ends His Career

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

🖥️ ProtonMail: Get FREE end-to-end encrypted email at https://proton.me/adam Adam Mockler breaks down a brutal Fox News interview where JD Vance is pressed on failed Iran negotiations, backing Viktor Orbán, and internal controversies—while struggling to give clear answers. As contradictions pile up, the moment is raising serious questions about leadership and accountability. Click below for premium Adam Mockler content 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler/join 👉 https://adammockler.com/subscribe JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamMockler/ Discord: https://discord.gg/y9yzMU3Gff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adammockler/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adammockler.com/ Twitter: https://x.com/adammocklerr/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adammockler Contact: [e-mail] Business inquiries: [e-mail] Adam Mockler - Mockler Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And then he gets asked about the fact that Victor Orban lost after J.D. Vance visited. It has been an awful week for the Republican Vice President. president who's supposed to be on home base here, but Brett Baer asks some pretty direct questions. I'm not even trying to praise Fox News. I'm just saying these are some questions I would ask as well. Like, hey, what went wrong during these negotiations? Or, hey, how do you feel when the person that you are serving every single day shits all over your religion and depicts himself as Jesus? And as usual, J.D. Vance isn't able to give any satisfying answers for the failed negotiations and everything beyond.

There's even a moment where he admits, he accidentally admits that the United States is using terroristic methods over in the Strait of Hormuz and in the Middle East. I swear, he uses the words, terroristic. So make sure you drop a like. Make sure you subscribe to the Adamachler feed. You may have noticed, but we hit 2 million.

It looks amazing on this Gen Z-built media company and subscribe to help us continue to realize our vision and build our team. Okay, let's start off with this clip of Brett Baer, just asking him directly, what went wrong in the negotiations. Let's talk about the Iran negotiations and maybe what went wrong in Islamabad. Joining us now, Vice President, J.D. Vance. Mr. Vice President, thanks for the time. Thank you.

What happened and where do we go from here? Well, first of all, Brett, I wouldn't just say that things went wrong. I also think things went right. We made a lot of progress, but we also made very clear, and I think this is part of the progress we made, what the terms where the United States could make some accommodation, what terms we were flexible on, and what things we absolutely needed to see in order for the President of the United States to feel like he was getting a good deal. And so we lay those things out. We had some good conversations. I think it was the first time that you had ever seen the Iranian government, the U.S.

government meet at such a high level, maybe in the history of the current leadership of Iran. Okay, there's a lot more, but I want to pause here because J.D. Vance says in this clip that there were some wins, some losses. There were some good to come out of this, but some bad. It seems like he's trying to whitewash a rather huge failure on his part. This is him in Islamabad right after the negotiations ended. You can tell he's kind of tired because he was negotiating for 21 hours. That's fine. Of course.

But listen, he says in this clip, we weren't able to make any headway. He doesn't say we got some wins. We got some losses. He said we made no headway. Was there a framework on anything and also did the Iranian frozen assets? How much did you reach any conclusions on those persons? We talked about all those issues, Jen,

and we talked about a number of issues beyond that. And so certainly those things came up. But again, we just could not get to a situation where the Iranians were willing to accept our terms. I think that we were quite flexible. We were quite accommodating. The president told us, you need to come here in good faith and make your best effort to get a deal.

We did that. And unfortunately, we weren't able to make any headway. We weren't able to make any headway. That's far different than what J.D. Vance just said on Fox News, but Brett Baer doesn't stop. In one moment, I'll show you how Brett Baer asks multiple questions about the Pope and says, dude, doesn't this make you very uncomfortable? But first, let me show you this Victor Orban part, because this is another big chapter of J.D. Vance's week overseas in, you know, dabbling in foreign policy.

His prospects for 2028 are not looking good. And it was kind of funny to see Trump and Marco Rubio dancing at the UFC match while J.D. was sweating in Islamabad. But before he went there, he was in Hungary with Victor Orban to rally for the tyrant, rally for the corrupt authoritarian, and Victor Orban lost. He lost his election. So, J.D. Vance gets asked about that. You also campaigned for Victor Orban in Hungary, and he lost that race, defeated after 16 years in power. Your thoughts about whether it was worth it to go support Victor Orban in that race, considering he lost significantly, and he's one of the only European leaders who supports Vladimir Putin.

Thank you. Thank you, Brett Baer. Again, I'm not trying to praise Fox News, but this is exactly what I'd say. You risked your political career, probably blew it up, and all this political capital in time, to go overseas and rally for someone who supports Putin, the only person in the EU. I like how Fox News is just trying to take down J.D. Vance's career now. Brett Baer knows he's bullshit. He lost significantly, and he's one of the only European leaders who supports Vladimir Putin. Well, first of all, Brett, I think that Victor Obon's a great guy who's done a very good job.

I think that his legacy in Hungary is transformational 16 years fundamentally changing that country. But one of the reasons why we decided to do that, Brett, is not because, you know, we can't read polls. We certainly knew there was a very good chance that Victor would lose that election. We did it because he's one of the few European leaders we've seen who's been willing to stand up to the bureaucracy in Brussels that has been very, very bad for the United States. So, for example, when you see a European bureaucrat go after an American company, sometimes the only vote no, the only vote to protect that American interest has been Victor Orban. You don't know the only vote no right now holding up a Ukraine package in Europe so they could fight Russia. It's Hungary. It was Hungary.

And that created the permission structure for one or two other countries to then vote no along with it. But Hungary is essentially leading the path. is mainstreaming anti-Russian sentiment trying to in Europe, and Victor Orban was alone. Nobody wanted this pro-Puton stooge who was incredibly, incredibly corrupt, except for J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance was the only one who wanted it. We didn't go because we expected Victor to cruise to an election victory. We went because it was the right thing to do to stand behind a person who had stood by us. Dude, this is disgusting. Victor Orban eroded the democracy of Hungary and turned it into an illiberal democracy,

where he had institutions, the media, all under his thumb because he would pay them off. And JD Vance went over there to campaign for him. Okay. Then J.D. Vance accidentally admits that the United States is engaging in economic terrorism. Now, first, he says, what Iran has done is they've engaged in economic terrorism in this fight. So we showed them two could play at that game. And it's like, wait a minute. Hold up, buddy.

So we're just playing the same economic terrorism game. Then we have no moral high ground. When it comes to weapons of war, What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. They basically threaten any ship that's moving through the Straits of Hormuz. Well, as the President of the United States showed, two can play at that game. And if the Iranians are going to try to engage in economic terrorism, we're going to abide by a simple principle that no Iranian ships are getting out either.

We know that's- Wait a minute. If they're going to engage in economic terrorism, we're going to abide by one single principle, not international law, not maritime law, not the treaty between countries, not to do this shit, but no, that we also want to commit economic terrorism. That's our new principle. And really quickly, I urge all of you to be using the internet in a safe manner. Most people don't realize that their email is the backbone of their digital identity. Your bank, your jobs, your passwords, all of your accounts likely connect back to your email. It's how the internet

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or click the link in the description. Thank you all. Thank you to Proton. I then want to transition over to the Vatican feud that is currently ongoing. Brett Baer begins by asking, as a Catholic, how do you view this? Because many Catholics online were super pissed off. And then this turns into an entire discourse. Take a look.

Pope Leo has expressed problems with the war in Iran. It says that we should be peacemakers. It's been very vocal. The president took to Truth Social, saying Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn't on any list to be Pope. It was only put there because of the church, because he was an American. They thought he would be good, best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican.

Just wondering, as a Catholic, how you consider this truth social post? And then the post of the picture, which a lot of people took as the president posting a picture of himself as Jesus, He later said that he... I like how they have to put AI-generated image for the Fox News viewers, because the Fox News viewers might actually think that this is Jesus as Trump or Trump is Jesus. He posted it as a thinking as a doctor, saving people. I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with Red Cross as a Red Cross worker there, which we support, and only the fake news could come up with that one.

But it really caused a kerfuffle, Mr. Vice President. I'm just wondering what you make of all of this, and whether it's what you think of this back and forth with the church? Well, first of all, Brett, I think the president was posting a joke, and of course he took it down because he recognized that a lot of people weren't understanding his humor in that case. I think the president of the United States likes to mix it up on social media. And I actually think that's one of the good things about this president is that he's not filtered. He doesn't send everything through a communications professional.

He actually reaches out directly to the people. When it comes to the disagreements with the Vatican, look, we're going to have disagreements, Brett, from time to time. I think it's a good thing, actually, that the Pope is advocating for the things that he cares about, but we're always going to have disagreements on matters of public policy. I should say sometimes we're going to have disagreements on matters of public policy. The Pope has been critical of our immigration policy, but ultimately the immigration policy of the United States is set by Donald Trump.

The Pope is going to have disagreements on other issues. We can respect the Pope. a good relationship with the Vatican, but we're also going to disagree on substantive questions from time to time. I think that's a total- All the Pope did was say that he wants wars to be fought in a just way. And Donald Trump responded, not by just disagreeing. I hate when Republicans do this. They downplay what Donald Trump does is just a unique way of disagreeing. He puts tariffs on every single country except Russia and North Korea. It's just a unique way of getting economic leverage, even though it made

no sense and was illegal. Donald Trump could take a shit on the Oval Office desk and they would say, it's just a unique way of plumbing. He's just trying to break ground in doing that. No. And it's not just a small disagreement. It is certainly not a small disagreement about human dignity when Donald Trump is abusing people with ICE and committing war crimes and threatening war crimes in Iran. And then the Pope comes out and says, hey, we should fight Boers in a just way and follow rules. So Donald Trump posts himself as Jesus, makes fun of the Pope, personally attack. the Pope, starts an online feud with the Pope, then the Pope was asked about this, and he says, I don't do politics. I'm just speaking from a human dignity lens. If the U.S. President wants to play

politics, he can do that. I'm just saying war should be fought in a just manner. I am a peacemaker. He literally just says a steady-handed pro-human dignity thing, and Republicans are shitting themselves on the ground. Let's watch this clip right here of J.D. Vance continuing to push. Do you think that when the president says it's hurting him very badly, going catering to the radical left, it's hurting the Catholic Church? Do you agree with the president there? Well, look, I think the president has the prerogative to set American foreign policy. He's got the prerogative to set American immigration policy.

He has to look out for the interests of the United States of America. And that inevitably means that when the Vatican comments on issues of public policy, sometimes there's going to be agreement, of course, and sometimes there's going to be disagreement. I think that's a reasonable thing, Brett. Again, I don't think that it's particularly newsworthy, but I certainly think that in some case... Dude, this guy is literally squirming out of this.

It's not particularly newsworthy that the U.S. president is naming the Pope on his true social, saying that he made his career going off on him when the Pope has not even said his name. The first time the Pope said Trump's name was today on a palpable plane when he was asked about this administration. He's not even brought up Trump. He just said treat people well.

It's like if I walked up to someone and I'm like, hey, everybody, treat people nicely, treat people how you want to be treated. And then some kid on the playground with an orange spray tan and golden hair is like, what are you saying to me? I'm going to docks your family. You hate me. You hate this entire world. You treat people how you want to be treated. It's like, dude, Trump is going on an unhinged, deranged rampage, frothing at the mouth. And J.D. Vance is like, people can disagree.

Sometimes there's going to be agreement, of course. And sometimes there's going to be disagreement. I think that's a reasonable thing, Brett. Again, I don't think that it's particularly newsworthy. It's not newsworthy? But I certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of what's going on to the Catholic Church. Wait a minute.

I think the president should stick to matters of America. The Pope can speak about human dignity across the globe if he wants. It's not the Pope's like prerogative to be silent when he sees abuses of human rights. J.D. Vance is such a shitty Catholic. He's such a shitty, shitty, shitty Catholic. He wants the Pope to be quiet while his administration continues to abuse human rights. To say that this isn't particularly newsworthy is also, in and of itself, kind of newsworthy. This administration wants you to be as quiet as possible about the fact that they want to silence the Pope. They want to silence the media. They want to silence everybody, including you, including me. We won't let that

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