- The vice president appeared at CPAC 25 on Thursday
Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday revealed the best piece of advice that his wife Usha had ever given him.
And it wasn’t the pointer she gave him most recently.
‘One piece of advice she gave me, like a week ago, was you should be nicer on social media,’ he told an audience at a gathering of conservatives just outside Washington, D.C. ‘
‘I don’t know that I’ll take advice. Some advice is good. Some advice is, you know, you can be good, but you don’t have to always take it.’
He was appearing on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference with one of its organizers Mercedes Schlapp.
Instead, Vance described how his wife had urged him to be himself on the campaign trail.
‘The best advice she gave me when it came to politics is, don’t let them filter you,’ he said.
‘And in politics, you know, you’ve got consultants and you’ve got media professionals, you’ve got pollsters, you’ve got a lot of people who try to tell you what to say or how to behave or you know what to do.
‘And Usha just said, Just be yourself. Be authentic.’
Vice President JD Vance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2025
US Vice President JD Vance (L) and his wife Usha Vance arrive for the 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany on February 14, 2025
Vance became Trump’s running mate last year after impressing the Republican candidate with punchy appearances on television.
He took on the role of Trump’s attack dog, and used his social media accounts to bait liberals, taking the fight to his opponents.
Last week, he was in Europe, where he delivered a brutal dressing down to the continent’s leadership over freedom of speech, a theme he returned to during his CPAC appearance.
‘We’re going to continue to have important alliances with Europe, but I really do think the strength of those alliances is going to depend on whether we take our societies in the right direction,’ Vance said.
He said the history of values shared between the U.S. and Europe was under threat.
‘You do not have shared values if you’re jailing people for saying we should close down our border,’ he said.
‘You don’t have shared values if you cancel elections because you don’t like the result, and that happened in Romania. You don’t have shared values if you’re so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up.’
