Vice President JD Vance is a devout Catholic who converted to a traditional version of the faith as an adult. President Donald Trump, despite all of his support from the Christian right, is pretty clearly not a particularly religious man, and earlier this year, he posted an image of himself as Jesus Christ to social media, a move that some of his most devoted supporters rejected. Trump later deleted the image.
What did the vice president think of that moment?
According to The Daily Beast, Vince “refused to feed into Donald Trump’s delusions following a controversial Truth Social post by the president last month depicting him as Jesus.”
The author of a new book about his religious journey, Vance, gave an interview to NBC News in which he was asked about philosopher Basil Mitchell’s parable about the stranger, and how it applies to the president.
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“I am certainly not going to compare the stranger in the parable who ultimately is Jesus to the president of the United States, as much as I love the president.”
In the same interview, Vance said, “I guess people on the internet call it ‘trust the plan,’ right?” “Trust the plan” is a slogan associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory.
“There are plan-trusters out there, and I think that’s important, because to get anything done, sometimes it takes a long time, and sometimes it takes patience. And I think that we are blessed to have a political movement where there are a lot of people who are patient, who don’t expect that they’re always going to get immediate results.”
Vance was also asked about the 2028 election, amid a report from The Daily Mail that the vice president is looking to not run for president.
“I mean, to honestly answer those questions,” Vance told NBC, “I would have to be a candidate for president myself, and I’m not. Maybe I will be one day, but I’m not right now. And if I ever become a candidate for president, I think that the best and most important attitude, certainly the attitude I would bring to it, is I’m not entitled to it, right?”
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