Constitutionally, the president does not have the power to fire or remove the vice president. Therefore, J.D. Vance will be vice president for the entire four years of Trump’s presidency unless he dies, resigns, or ascends to the presidency.
However, Trump already had a massive falling-out with one vice president, and one former Trump aide believes another one is coming.
Anthony Scaramucci, who had an infamously short tenure as Trump’s director of communications in 2017 and since emerged as a sharp Trump critic, made that prediction on CNN this weekend.
According to The Daily Beast, Scarmucci appeared on Erin Burnett’s CNN show and predicted that “at the end of the day, I predict JD Vance will go the way of Mike Pence.”
Anthony Scaramucci, Former White House Aide, Predicts Donald Trump Will Give JD Vance the Boot 🥰🥰🥰🥰 https://t.co/edAZpHdrVI
— Justdisgusted (@Jusdisgusted) March 29, 2025
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“The president will make him more irrelevant; he’ll do things to Vance that will compromise his position,” Scaramucci said. “He doesn’t like the attention that Vance is getting.”
Scaramucci went on to mock Vance for dressing like Trump and predicted that the real test of sycophancy would be whether Vance shaves off his beard, as Trump has a notorious aversion to beards.
Of course, Trump does not have the option to remove Vance from office and cannot remove him from the ticket since, contrary to his recent protests, Trump is constitutionally forbidden from running for another term.
Of course, Trump is capable of having a falling out with just about anyone, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the president and vice president could be on the outs at some point in the next four years. Trump could always withhold his support for Vance to serve as his successor as GOP standard-bearer.
Scaramucci’s interview comes amid a report from NBC News that some Republicans in Congress are unhappy with Vance for his comments on the pre-Houthi invasion Signal chat about being skeptical of the Trump Administration’s approach to the invasion.
JD Vance’s role in Signal chat angers senior Republican lawmakershttps://t.co/QSj6CMiwa6
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 30, 2025
“I think we are making a mistake,” Vance said on the chat, which The Atlantic later published. He added that he was “willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself,” and the attack ultimately proceeded over the vice president’s objections.
“Capitol Hill Republicans still have their jaws on their floor with how actively the VP worked to try and undo a Trump decision,” a senior Republican on the Hill said of Vance’s hesitation, per NBC.
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