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by Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
August 29, 2025
from
TheEpochTimes Website
This report also
HERE
Vice President JD Vance
speaks to
supporters of President Donald Trump
at an event in
Peachtree City, Ga.,
on Aug. 21,
2025.
Megan
Varner/Getty Images
'I
feel very confident
the
president of the United States
is in good
shape,
is going
to serve out
the
remainder of his term,'
the vice
president says...
Vice President JD Vance said in an interview that President
Donald Trump is in "incredibly good health" but that he's
prepared to be the commander-in-chief if required.
"Yes, terrible tragedies happen," Vance
told USA Today, responding to a
question about the prospect of him being forced to replace
Trump.
"But I feel very confident the president of the United States is
in good shape, is going to serve out the remainder of his term
and do great things for the American people.
"And if, God forbid, there's a terrible tragedy, I can't think
of better on-the-job training than what I've gotten over the
last 200 days."
Trump, who turned 79 in June, became the oldest
person to be sworn in as president in January.
In July, the White House
said that Trump was diagnosed with
chronic venous insufficiency, a
common condition among older adults that impacts the veins.
White House physician Sean Barbabella said in a
memo that Trump also had bruising
on his hands that is,
"consistent with minor soft tissue irritation
from frequent handshaking," calling it "benign and common."
"The president is in incredibly good health," Vance told USA
Today, adding that the president is the "last person making
phone calls at night, and he's the first person who wakes up and
the first person making phone calls in the morning."
Aside from the president's age and health,
Trump was also the target of
two assassination attempts last
year.
In July 2024, Trump was shot through the right ear during a rally in
Butler, Pennsylvania, by a gunman perched on a nearby rooftop.
Two months later, Secret Service officials helped stop a man with a
rifle who was hiding in the bushes near Trump's Florida golf course.
The suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, was later
indicted by prosecutors on
attempted assassination charges.
In the interview, Vance recalled setting foot in the Oval Office for
the first time earlier this year.
"It was an amazing thing. I was overwhelmed
by the grandeur of the office, all of the incredible history
that had been made," he
told the outlet.
"But if I was being honest, it was the middle of winter, the
drapes were closed.
It was very dark. It had kind of a dark and
gloomy feeling. This is the workplace of the leader of the free
world. It should be a little brighter.
I like what the president has done to it."
Earlier this month, Trump suggested to
reporters that Vance would "most likely" be his successor
should he run for president in 2028, adding that he would "probably
be favored at this point."
Source
"I think Marco is also somebody that maybe
would get together with JD in some form," Trump added, referring
to Secretary of State and 2016 Republican presidential candidate
Marco Rubio.
"I also think we have incredible people, some of the people on
the stage right here."
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