From a troubled childhood in the rust belt to success in Silicon Valley, J.D. Vance, best-selling author of “Hillbilly Elegy” opens up about his story to Megyn Kelly.
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J.D Vance, Best-Selling Author Opens Up About His Painful Childhood And The Future Ahead | NBC News
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Looks more genuine here than he does now.
Lived in Middletown a few years ago – and my mother was born and raised not too far away from Jackson Kentucky (where he's from).
Voted for Vance last election and he won. Voting for him again for the second time this Nov. It'll be my 3rd time voting for Trump
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#trump2024 🙌🏽
Hahaha. He’s so FAKE
I'm watching from India
TRUMP/VANCE 2024..this was in 2017. keep rolling JD…your country needs you.
Just checking to see if he wore eyeliner back then too.
Wow what a great guy! And now he’s vice president 🎉
A very honest and humble young man. He will do great things as VP….
NBC News actually quoted the truth back then. ❤
he talks smack about single moms and childless ppl the irony , he cleary has daddy issues
Keep the bood to yourself jd not interested 😢
He is way more cynical now.
I wish EVERY AMERICAN would watch this!!! He is exactly who he says he is. Authentic and genuine before he had any interest in politics!!
Amazing what selling your soul will do to a man
https://youtu.be/vYILYILPrXs?si=WVlZb-Y1OqkERmgY
Honey just give it to God, you can't change the past. You'd be a great president..make Mawmaw proud!🙏❤
AWESOME SONG! GREAT JOB SINGING❣️❣️❣️
TOTALLY AWESOME AND SO SO TRUE❣️❣️
The reality is that no matter how hard we work, save and strive to progress, there are external forces that return us to the starting point… in the USA you can be on top but if you end up in the hospital, you lose everything… I remember the mortgage crisis of 2008, Wall Street played roulette and lost and in the end we all lost our homes without having been part of the game. Right now inflation is literally annihilating us and yet the elite says we are fine, we can barely get gas… I truly hope that a new administration focuses on its country, its people and its legacy…
I can’t stop watching interviews and rally speeches from him. He has impressed me more than anyone in years! Now I think I need to read his book.
Who would have ever thought that a young man from poor, rural Kentucky would one day be the Republican nominee for the Republican Party and help Donald Trump lose the election in 2024.
ご家族の中で、お母様のことで悩まれたのですね。しかし、警察を呼んだことは良かったですね。命を助けました。あとから、冷静に自分のしたことを反省するのではないですか?
しかし、とても過去にそんな苦しみがあったとは、今はわかりませんね。今と、過去のお顔も違うのは、信仰のせいでしょうか?祝福されていますね。
VICE PRESIDENT J.D. VANCE, I am looking forward to you and PRESIDENT TRUMP, being in the White House, very soon! We love you both!!!
He could have done something to help kids who were bullied, like become an advocate or mentor. Instead, he became a venture capitalist, lined his own pockets, and joined the biggest bully this country has seen in decades to do the exact opposite of what he should be doing. That’s total hypocrisy.
Shady Vance is a best selling author because he did a Don Jr. Both dudes bought $200,000 of their own book before it
hit the racks.
Because of JD, now I know why parents put plastic coverings on their couches.
I don’t believe a word he says so why believe what he writes
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Imagine thinking tampon Tim even deserves to breath the same air as this man. Wow.
We all have our own stories.Its about making the best regardless.Being judged on your character today.
So, he switched to liking trump because he liked what trump really meant when he said what he said and people misunderstood him. Vance guess what, if trump wins, if, he wins, you'll spend the next 4 years translating for the American people "what trump really meant" . Just like your wife translating what you meant about childless women, etc. But, i can't blame you for being flattered you were asked to be VP.
Now I see why Trump chose him!
This man is Oedipus from his past so he wants to destroy American and the women
Love the guy. Great pick by Donald Trump
His book calls Appalachians lazy and dumb. He hates them and he profited off these people.
And now he’s trying to act like he’s a good ol boy but everyone sees him as a fake.
I always skipped watching the netflix version. Just something felt off. He called DT hitler and now supporting him, says it all! Maybe vote blue! Could be last time we ever vote again!
JD is a role model to all
But he has white privileged, most white get a better opportunity, so this is not anything fantasy.
This was a great movie
Yes indeed….. WEIRD.
The next Vice President of USA 🇺🇸 🎉
Thank you Trump for choose this wonderful Man who wrote this author Hillbilly Elegy. So proud of him coming out Abuse and to become our next Vice President of the United States of America 🇺🇸
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I’m glad he survived his childhood trauma, but he got help from others, why not understand that community is just as important as family. What he doesn’t seem to understand is that other people have a different view of family and community. He needs to stay in his lane.
He is not the only child that had a bad/rough childhood, and that doesn’t give him the right to tell me what to do with my body or my life. I had a crappy childhood, but I couldn’t care less what others do job wise, family wise or belief wise. Mind your own business.