Donald Trump appeared to call his own vice president, JD Vance, “incompetent” during a rambling Cabinet meeting rant that also included confusion about past debates and Democratic nominees, intensifying concerns about his cognitive fitness.
During a televised Cabinet meeting, Donald Trump appeared to brand his vice president, JD Vance, “incompetent” while launching into a meandering response to a question about a Minnesota fraud scandal, veering into attacks on Somali immigrants and recalling the 2024 vice-presidential debate. Trump said, “I was saying, who was more incompetent? That man or my man?… They were both incompetent,” seeming to lump Vance in with the criticism, while a longer riff—“I had a man and he had a man.
They were both incompetent… I had a man and a woman. I thought she was very incompetent too”—suggested he may have confused Kamala Harris’ role in the 2024 race. The moment added to growing scrutiny of Trump’s public lapses, including episodes of apparent dozing, halting performances, and repeated confusion, even as the White House insists he remains in “optimal” health.