Vice President JD Vance said the United States was “governed by complete morons” before President Donald Trump took office at a Tuesday night event during which he previewed the administration’s economic vision.
“If I on Jan. 21 — in fact I did ask this question — ‘where are the biggest deficiencies in our supply chains? What are the 100 products that we’re completely reliant on some other entity to make for us?’” Vance said in a conversation with American Compass founder Oren Cass.
“You had these basic questions about the brittleness of our supply chains that were completely uninvestigated by the very people who supported globalizing those supply chains,” says @VP.
“We were actually governed by complete morons.” pic.twitter.com/rqvU4RupCr
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He continued by saying the answer was “we don’t know” because the prior administration didn’t ask.